23 Facts About Terry Sejnowski

Terrence Joseph Sejnowski is the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies where he directs the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory and is the director of the Crick-Jacobs center for theoretical and computational biology.

Terry Sejnowski has performed research in neural networks and computational neuroscience.

Terry Sejnowski is Professor of Biological Sciences and adjunct professor in the departments of neurosciences, psychology, cognitive science, computer science and engineering at the University of California, San Diego, where he is co-director of the Institute for Neural Computation.

Terry Sejnowski received a Bachelor of Science with a major in physics from the Case Western Reserve University in 1968, a Master of Arts in physics from Princeton University, and a Doctor of Philosophy in physics from Princeton University in 1978.

Terry Sejnowski noticed that all gravitational wave detectors were 1000x too insensitive to detect, and, thinking that the requisite detectors would not appear until 30 years later, decided to go into a different field.

Terry Sejnowski was an Investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from 1991 to 2018.

Terry Sejnowski received a Presidential Young Investigator Award in 1984 from the National Science Foundation.

Terry Sejnowski received the Wright Prize from the Harvey Mudd College for excellence in interdisciplinary research in 1996 and the Hebb Prize for his contributions to learning algorithms by the International Neural Network Society in 1999.

Terry Sejnowski became a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2000 for fundamental advances in the theory and practice of neural networks and for contributions to computational neuroscience.

Terry Sejnowski is a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council.

Terry Sejnowski was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2008.

Terry Sejnowski was awarded the 2015 Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience from the Society for Neuroscience.

Terry Sejnowski received an honorary doctorate from the University of Zurich in 2017.

In 1989, Terry Sejnowski founded Neural Computation, published by the MIT Press, the leading journal in neural networks and computational neuroscience.

Terry Sejnowski is the President of the Neural Information Processing Systems Foundation, a non-profit organization that oversees the annual NeurIPS Conference.

Terry Sejnowski co-invented the Boltzmann machine with Geoffrey Hinton and pioneered the application of learning algorithms to difficult problems in speech and vision.

Terry Sejnowski's laboratory has developed new methods for analyzing the sources for electrical and magnetic signals recorded from the scalp and hemodynamic signals from functional neuroimaging by blind separation using ICA.

Terry Sejnowski has participated and spoken at the Beyond Belief symposia in 2006 and 2007.

Terry Sejnowski participated in the conference Waking Up to Sleep at the Salk Institute in February 2007.

Terry Sejnowski was a member of the Advisory Committee to the Director of the National Institutes of Health for the Brain Research through Application of Innovative Neurotechnologies Initiative, announced by President Obama on 2 April 2013.

Terry Sejnowski was previously part of a team of engineers and neuroscientists who developed the Brain Activity Map Project, which served as the template for the BRAIN Initiative.

In 1992, Sejnowski co-authored The Computational Brain with Patricia Churchland and in 2002 the book Liars, Lovers, and Heroes; What the New Brain Science Reveals About How We Become Who We are with Steven R Quartz.

Terry Sejnowski has co-created and teaches Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects, a massive open online course offered on Coursera.