Carina Curto and Juliana Londono Alvarez in Brown News

Carina Curto and Juliana Londono Alvarez recieved a lovely writeup in News from Brown last month!  The pair is designing SMALL networks as opposed to the usual behemothic ones used in the general neural networks field.  

Something interesting that is not mentioned in the article is that the basic template/structure (inhibition networks) is rife in biological systems, which means there’s something stable about them (under evolution, say). The other thing that’s cool is that their networks have rhythm by design. Such small autorhythmic networks are also rife in biology – think about that next time you take a stroll and are not thinking about how your legs (and all the various pieceparts attached) are moving along just fine.  The signals sent to your actual muscles are coming mostly from ganglia – little bundles of neurons hanging out in your spine – as opposed to from your brain – though some would say that these distal ganglia are part of the brain. 

Congratulations on the writeup, and thank you for all of your research contributions!