Making a tight connection
Food for thought
In the beginning...
How to network
Where the pointy-heads roam
100

With about 300 neurons, the first animal to have its connectome mapped.

                                                                    What is C elegans

                                                       


    

100

SPAM is a contraction of these two words.

What are Spiced Ham?

                                                       


    

100

What is referred to as a therapeutic surgical intervention in which a hole is drilled or scraped into the human skull?

What is Trepanation?

100

A perceptron is missing these.

What are hidden layers?

100

A steam whistle calls an end to classes here.

What is Georgia Tech?

200

The pseudo-scientific assessment of behavioral, psychological and cognitive traits by studying the skull and facial structures.

What is phrenology?

200

Every jar of peanuts must contain at least this percentage of legume.

What is 90%?
200

In Ancient Egypt, what was believed to be the storehouse of memories and the location of the soul?

What is the heart?

200

The process of feeding input to a network.

What is feedforward?

200

Bill Clinton's alma mater.

What is Georgetown University?

300

The idea that brain function (and especially memory) can take place in many areas of the cortex.

What is equipotentiality?

                                                       


    

300

By weight, this is the most expensive spice.

What is saffron?

300

The Greek chief physician in Ancient Rome who made three deductions about the different parts of the human brain that prevailed for around 1,500 years.

Who is Galen?

300

The process of sending error information back through a network.

What is backpropagation?

300

Ocean's Eleven was filmed in the Neuroscience building here.

What is UC Irvine?

400

The number of synapses in the human cortex.

What is 60 trillion?

400

Dorito is Spanish for this.

What is little golden thing?

400

This scientist thought that the pineal gland was critical to sensorimotor processing.

Who is Descartes?

400

This scientist proposed a robust recurrent model of units based on the Ising model.

Who is Hopfield?

400

The alma mater of the agronomist who is credited with saving at least a billion lives.

What is University of Minnesota? (Normal Borlaug)

500

A disorder of connectivity responsible for a disease or deficit.

What is connectopathy?

500

This is the most stolen food in the world.

What is cheese?

500

The philospher that proposed that the brain in the seat of intelligence and organ of sensation.

Who is Hippocrates?

500

A convolutional neural network that won numerous image recognition contests in 2012 due to its "depth."

What is AlexNet?

500

The term "campus" was first used for the grounds here.

What is Princeton?