On December 12, 2013, the Director for the new Berkeley Institute for Data Science, Nobel Laureate Saul Perlmutter, was joined by Vicki Chandler from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, UC Berkeley's Chancellor Nicholas Dirks, Tim O'Reilly, Founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, and Peter Norvig, Director of Research at Google, for the launch event celebrating the establishment of the new Institute.
One of the major scientific challenges of our time is to understand how the brain works. Recently, researchers have attempted to answer one of the important questions in computational neuroscience: Can the vast quantities of high-dimensional neuroscience data available today be used to decode brain activities?
