Silicon vision [videorecording] : computational neuroscientist Misha Mahowald / WGBH/Boston

Published:: Boston : WGBH Educational Foundation ; Princeton, N.J. : Films for the Humanities & Sciences, [1995]
Copyright Date:: ©1995
Physical Description:: 1 videocassette (60 min.) : sound, color ; 1/2 in.
Additional Creators:: DeVinney, James A., Films for the Humanities (Firm), and WGBH Educational Foundation

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Working in a very young field, computational neuroscience, a combination of computer science and biology, Misha Mahowald has already played an important part in the development of a silicon retina, a computer chip that reacts to light as the eye's retina does. She is at work on a silicon neuron, the next step towards building an entire visual network.

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Originally broadcast on the PBS television program, Discovering women.
Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

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Producer, James DeVinney ; executive producer, Judith Vecchione ; narrator, Michelle Pfeiffer.

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VHS.

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