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Christof Koch
Christof Koch (/kɒx/ KOKH; born November 13, 1956) is an American cognitive scientist, neurophysiologist and computational neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural basis of consciousness.
He was president and chief scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle and remains at the Institute as a Meritorious Investigator.
He is also chief scientist of the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, in Santa Monica, California, which funds research into alleviating people's suffering, anxiety, and other distress.
From 1986 until 2013, he was a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
Koch was born in the Midwest of the United States. He is the son of German parents; his father was a diplomat, so he grew up in the Netherlands and Canada. Christof was raised a Roman Catholic and received his schooling in Germany over a period of 10 years. His interest in consciousness commenced when as a child he decided that consciousness must apply to all animals, not only to humans. Later he attended a Jesuit secondary school in Morocco. In 1982 he received a PhD from the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen, Germany, for his work in the field of nonlinear information processing. His older brother is the diplomat Michael Koch.
Koch has authored more than 350 scientific papers and six books about how computers and neurons process information. He worked four years at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT before, in 1986, joining the newly started Computation and Neural Systems PhD program at the California Institute of Technology.
In 1986 Koch and Shimon Ullman proposed the idea of a visual saliency map in the primate visual system. Subsequently, his then PhD-student, Laurent Itti, and Koch developed a popular suite of visual saliency algorithms.
For over two decades, Koch and his students have carried out detailed biophysical simulations of the electrical properties of neuronal tissue, from simulating the details of the action potential propagation along axons and dendrites to the synthesis of the local field potential and the EEG from the electrical activity of large populations of excitable neurons.
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Christof Koch
Christof Koch (/kɒx/ KOKH; born November 13, 1956) is an American cognitive scientist, neurophysiologist and computational neuroscientist best known for his work on the neural basis of consciousness.
He was president and chief scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science in Seattle and remains at the Institute as a Meritorious Investigator.
He is also chief scientist of the Tiny Blue Dot Foundation, in Santa Monica, California, which funds research into alleviating people's suffering, anxiety, and other distress.
From 1986 until 2013, he was a professor at the California Institute of Technology.
Koch was born in the Midwest of the United States. He is the son of German parents; his father was a diplomat, so he grew up in the Netherlands and Canada. Christof was raised a Roman Catholic and received his schooling in Germany over a period of 10 years. His interest in consciousness commenced when as a child he decided that consciousness must apply to all animals, not only to humans. Later he attended a Jesuit secondary school in Morocco. In 1982 he received a PhD from the Max Planck Institute in Tübingen, Germany, for his work in the field of nonlinear information processing. His older brother is the diplomat Michael Koch.
Koch has authored more than 350 scientific papers and six books about how computers and neurons process information. He worked four years at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT before, in 1986, joining the newly started Computation and Neural Systems PhD program at the California Institute of Technology.
In 1986 Koch and Shimon Ullman proposed the idea of a visual saliency map in the primate visual system. Subsequently, his then PhD-student, Laurent Itti, and Koch developed a popular suite of visual saliency algorithms.
For over two decades, Koch and his students have carried out detailed biophysical simulations of the electrical properties of neuronal tissue, from simulating the details of the action potential propagation along axons and dendrites to the synthesis of the local field potential and the EEG from the electrical activity of large populations of excitable neurons.