{"id":2422,"date":"2013-04-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vermont.salk.edu\/news-release\/salk-scientist-terrence-sejnowski-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences\/"},"modified":"2013-04-24T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T07:00:00","slug":"salk-scientist-terrence-sejnowski-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences","status":"publish","type":"disclosure","link":"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/salk-scientist-terrence-sejnowski-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences\/","title":{"rendered":"Salk scientist Terrence Sejnowski elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences"},"content":{"rendered":"

LA JOLLA, CA\u2014Salk researcher Terrence J. Sejnowski<\/a>,
\nprofessor and head of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, has been elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences<\/a>, a distinction awarded annually to global leaders in business, government, public affairs, the arts and popular culture as well as biomedical research.\n <\/p>\n

\nSejnowski is world renowned as a pioneer in the field of computational neuroscience and his work on neural networks helped spark the neural networks revolution in computing in the 1980s. His research has made important contributions to artificial and real neural network algorithms and applying signal processing models to neuroscience.\n <\/p>\n

\"Terrence<\/p>\n

Terrence J. Sejnowski
\nProfessor and Head of Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, Francis Crick Chair<\/p>\n

Courtesy of the Salk Institute for Biological Studies\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\nOne of the key architects of the White House’s new BRAIN Initiative<\/a>, Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies, Sejnowski recently attended President Obama’s announcement of the bold new initiative. A 10-year research effort that will enlist the country’s top neuroscientists to map activity in the human brain, the goal is to invent and refine new technologies to understand the human brain in an effort to find better ways to treat such conditions as Alzheimer’s, autism, stroke and traumatic brain injuries.\n <\/p>\n

\n“Terry is a remarkable scientist whose groundbreaking work has bridged computer science and neuroscience,” says Salk President William R. Brody. “Not only has his research initiated significant advances in neuroscience, it has inspired the research of generations of scientists. We congratulate Terry and commend the American Academy for honoring him with this award.”\n <\/p>\n

\nSejnowski is the 12th scientist from Salk to be inducted into the Academy and will share the honor with 198 new members of the 2013 class that include Nobel Prize winner Bruce A. Beutler, philanthropist David M. Rubenstein, astronaut John Glenn, actor Robert De Niro and singer-songwriter Bruce Springsteen.\n <\/p>\n

\nThe Academy selected Sejnowski and the other new Fellows as a result of their preeminent contributions to their disciplines and society at large. The honorees will be formally inducted into the Academy on October 12, 2013 at its headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts.\n <\/p>\n

\n“Election to the Academy honors individual accomplishment and calls upon members to serve the public good,” said Academy President Leslie C. Berlowitz. “We look forward to drawing on the knowledge and expertise of these distinguished men and women to advance solutions to the pressing policy challenges of the day.”\n <\/p>\n

\nOne of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies, the Academy is also a leading center for independent policy research. Members contribute to Academy publications and studies of science and technology policy, energy and global security, social policy and American institutions, and the humanities, arts, and education.\n <\/p>\n

\nSince its founding in 1780, the Academy has elected leading “thinkers and doers” from each generation, including George Washington and Benjamin Franklin in the eighteenth century, Daniel Webster and Ralph Waldo Emerson in the nineteenth, and Albert Einstein and Winston Churchill in the twentieth. The current membership includes more than 250 Nobel laureates and more than 60 Pulitzer Prize winners.<\/p>\n


\n\u00dcber das Salk Institute for Biological Studies:<\/strong>
\nDas Salk Institute for Biological Studies ist eine der weltweit f\u00fchrenden Institutionen f\u00fcr Grundlagenforschung, an der international renommierte Fakult\u00e4tsmitglieder grundlegende Fragen der Biowissenschaften in einem einzigartigen, kollaborativen und kreativen Umfeld untersuchen. Mit dem Fokus auf Entdeckungen und die Ausbildung zuk\u00fcnftiger Forschergenerationen leisten Salk-Wissenschaftler bahnbrechende Beitr\u00e4ge zu unserem Verst\u00e4ndnis von Krebs, Alterung, Alzheimer, Diabetes und Infektionskrankheiten durch die Untersuchung von Neurowissenschaften, Genetik, Zell- und Pflanzenbiologie sowie verwandten Disziplinen.\n<\/p>\n

\nDie Leistungen der Fakult\u00e4t wurden mit zahlreichen Auszeichnungen gew\u00fcrdigt, darunter Nobelpreise und Mitgliedschaften in der National Academy of Sciences. Das 1960 vom Polio-Impfstoff-Pionier Dr. Jonas Salk gegr\u00fcndete Institut ist eine unabh\u00e4ngige gemeinn\u00fctzige Organisation und ein architektonisches Wahrzeichen.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","faculty":[114],"disease-research":[127,169,124],"class_list":["post-2422","disclosure","type-disclosure","status-publish","hentry","faculty-terrence-sejnowski","disease-research-alzheimers-disease","disease-research-autism","disease-research-neuroscience-and-neurological-disorders"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSalk scientist Terrence Sejnowski elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Salk Institute for Biological Studies<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.salk.edu\/de\/news-release\/salk-scientist-terrence-sejnowski-elected-to-american-academy-of-arts-and-sciences\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"de_DE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Salk scientist Terrence Sejnowski elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Salk Institute for Biological Studies\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"LA JOLLA, CA\u2014Salk researcher Terrence J. 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