Nigel H. Goddard
Research Interests

Computational Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, Parallel Computing, High Performance Computing.

Education 

 Ph.D., Computer Science, University of Rochester, May 1992. 
 B.A., Mathematics and Engineering, Cambridge University, June 1979.
Academic and Research Experience Awards 
 
University Fellowship, University of Rochester, 1985-86
Exhibition, Cambridge University, 1976-77

Entrance Scholarship, Manchester Grammar School

Funded Proposals

"Center for Interactive Image Analysis", (PI) with David Willshaw and Ian Marshall, SHEFC RDG
Program, #540k, 1998-2000 (award pending).
``Parallel Simulation of Large Scale Neuronal Models'', (PI) with William Levy, Erik De Schutter, Terrence Sejnowski, Human Brain Program, NIMH, $1.1M, 9/30/97-4/30/02.
``Advanced Methods for Neuroimaging Data Analysis'', with Jonathan Cohen (PI), William Eddy and Doug Noll, Human Brain Program, NIDA, $440k, 9/30/97-9/29/99.
``A General Neural Simulation System for Computational Neurobiology'', with James Bower (PI), NSF BIR Special Projects Program (renewal), $1.2M, 1997-99.
``Tracking the Human Brain'', with James L. McClelland, Bryan Rogers, Paul Oles (Co-PIs) and others, ESI/EHR NSF, #9705491 $1.7M, 7/1/97-6/30/99,
``Computational and Statistical Methods for Analysis of Neuroimaging Datasets'', with Jonathan Cohen (PI), William Eddy and Doug Noll, NSF BIO/BIR special program ``Collaborative Research in Neuroscience, Computer and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering''. #IBN-9418982, $132k, 8/15/95 - 8/15/96
``A General Neural Simulation System for Computational Neurobiology'', with James Bower (PI) and Tom Defanti, NSF BIR Special Projects Program. #BIR-9400878, $1.5M, 9/1/94 - 8/31/97
Research Proposals Pending
"Ensemble encoding in Neural Systems", with John Miller, Charles Gray, James L. McClelland,
Aleksander Rebane, submitted to NSF KDI/NCC.
Journal Publications:
Goddard, N.H., Hood G., Cohen, J.D., Eddy, W.F., Genovese, C.R., Noll, D.C. and Nystrom, L.E., ``Online Analysis of Functional MRI Datatsets on Parallel Platforms'', Journal of Supercomputing, 11:3, in press.
James L. McClelland and Nigel H. Goddard, ``Considerations arising from a complementary learning systems perspective on hippocampus and neocortex'', Hippocampus 6(6):654-665, 1996.
Other Refereed Publications:
Goddard, N.H. and Hood, G. ``Parallel Genesis for Large Scale Modeling''. In Computational Neuroscience: Trends in Research 1997, Plenum Publishing, NY, 1997, pp 911-917.
Goddard, Nigel H., ``Incremental Model-Based Discrimination of Articulated Movement from Motion Features'', Proceedings of the Workshop on Motion of Non-Rigid & Articulate Objects, Austin, TX, November 1994, IEEE Computer Society Press.
Goddard, Nigel H., ``Associating What and Where Using Temporal Cues'', In Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1993.
Goddard, Nigel H., ``The Interpretation of Visual Motion: Recognizing Moving Light Displays''. In Proceedings of the 1989 IEEE Workshop on Visual Motion, IEEE Computer Society Press, Washington, DC, 1989.
Goddard, Nigel H., ``Representation and Recognition of Event Sequences''. In Proceedings of the 1988 Connectionist Models Summer School, Morgan Kaufmann, San Mateo, CA, 1989.
Goddard, Nigel H., ``Representation and Recognition of Biological Motion'', In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, NJ, 1988.
Caudel, T.P., Dolan, C.P., Ebeid, N. and Goddard, N.H., ``Real-Time Issues in Knowledge-Based Decision Support Systems''. In Proceedings of the ESD/SMI Conference on Expert Systems '88 - Solutions in Manufacturing, April 1988, Dearborn, Michigan.
Abstracts
Pattern Separation in a Computational Model of the Dentate Gyrus and CA3. P. Johnston, J. C. Klopp, E. Halgren, N. Goddard, G. Hood, V. I. Nenov Society for Neuroscience Abstracts, 1997, submitted.
LTP Dependent Stability of Input Specificity in a Computational CA3 Model. P. Johnston, J. C. Klopp, E. Halgren, N. Goddard, G.Hood, & V. I. Nenov Computational Neuroscience Abstracts, 1997, submitted
Goddard, N.H., McClelland, J.L., and O'Reilly, R.C., ``Invertible Encoding in a Model of Hippocampal Memory''. Abstracts of the Annual Meeting of the Neuroscience Society, San Diego, November 12-17, 1995.
Goddard, Nigel H., Hines, M., Murphy, S., and Damianos, L., ``High Performance Neural Simulators'', Abstracts of the Fourth Keck Symposium on Computational Biology, Pittsburgh, October 24-25, 1993.
Invited Book Chapters
Goddard, N.H., Hood G., Cohen, J.D., Eddy, W.F., Genovese, C.R., Noll, D.C. and Nystrom, L.E., ``Functional MRI Datatsets Analyzed Online'', in Parallel Computing for Industrial Applications, Koniges, A. (Ed), Morgan Kaufmann, in press.
Goddard, N.H. ``Human Activity Recognition'' in Motion-Based Recognition, Shah, M. and Jain, R. (Eds.), Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997.
Goddard, N.H. and Hood, G., "Parallel Simulation of GENESIS models" in The Book of GENESIS: Exploring Realistic Neural Models with the GEneral NEural SImulation System, Bower, J. M. and Beeman, D. (Eds.) 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, 1988.
Beeman, D., Bower, J.M., De Schutter, E., Efthimiadis, E.N., Goddard, N., and Leigh, J., ``The GENESIS Simulator-based Neuronal Database''. In Progress in Neuroinformatics, Koslow, S. and Huerta, M. (Eds.), Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 1996.
Goddard, Nigel H., ``Rochester Connectionist Simulation Environment'', In Neural Network Simulation Environments, J. Skrzypek, Ed., Kluwer, 1994.
Feldman, J.A., Fanty, M.A., Goddard, N.H., and Lynne, K., ``Computing with Structured Connectionist Networks''. In An Introduction to Neural and Electronic Networks, Zornetzer, S.F., Davis, J.L., and Lau, C., (Eds.), Academic Press, San Diego, 1990.
Other Invited Publications
Feldman, J.A., Fanty, M.A., and Goddard, N.H., ``Computing with Structured Neural Networks'', IEEE Computer Magazine, March 1988.
Feldman, J.A., Fanty, M.A., Goddard, N.H., and Lynne, K., ``Computing with Structured Connectionist Networks'', Communications of the ACM, February 1988 (reprinted as a book chapter as above).
Technical Reports
Goddard, Nigel H., ``The Interpretation of Visual Motion: Recognizing Moving Light Displays'', Ph.D. thesis and Technical Report 405, Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, April 1992.
Goddard, N.H., Lynne, K., and Mintz, T., ``The Rochester Connectionist Simulator'', Technical Report 233 (revised), Computer Science Department, University of Rochester, March 1988.
Workshops and Symposia
Goddard, Nigel H., ``Running Brain Models Remotely'', Workshop on Brain Models on the Web, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, March 29-30, 1996
Goddard, Nigel H., ``High Performance Issues for Neuronal Databases'', Workshop on Identified Neuron Databases, National Science Foundation, Washington, April 28-30, 1994.
Goddard, Nigel H., ``Experiences with Large Structured Networks'', Workshop on Software and Programming Issues for Connectionist Supercomputers, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley, April 19-20, 1993.
Goddard, Nigel H., ``Vector and Parallel Techniques for Computational Neuroscience'', Workshop on High Performance Software for Computational Neuroscience, Pittsburgh, November 20-21, 1992.
Goddard, Nigel H., ``Representing and Recognizing Event Sequences'', AAAI-88 Workshop on Neural Architectures for Computer Vision, St. Paul, Minnesota, August 1988.
Goddard, Nigel H., ``Recognizing Biological Motion'', AAAI Spring Symposium on Biological Approaches to Computer Vision, Palo Alto, California, March 1988.
Book Reviews
Goddard, Nigel H., Review of ``The Perception of Multiple Objects'', Michael C. Mozer, 1991. In Artificial Intelligence Journal 62 (1993).
Goddard, Nigel H., Review of ``The 1988 Connectionist Models Summer School'', Touretzky, D., Hinton G. and Sejnowski, T., (Eds.), 1989. In Artificial Intelligence Journal 53 (1992).
Affiliations

American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Science Society
Neural Network Society
Society for Neuroscience

Professional Service

Society for Neuroscience, Computing Advisory Committee, Member, 1995-.
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Pittsburgh, Computing Advisory Committee
NSF Metacenter Advisory Board on Computational Neuroscience: Founder and Organizer 1992-.
Workshop on High Performance Software for Computational Neuroscience, Pittsburgh, November 20-21, 1992: Organizing Commiteee.
Reviewer for:

National Institutes of Health
National Science Foundation
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Journal of Computational Neuroscience
Kluwer Academic Publishers
Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Courses Taught

Tue Dec 2 15:36:43 EST 1997