FW: 2010 INNS Awards

As the chair of the Awards Committee of the INNS, I am pleased and proud to announce the recipients of the 2010 INNS Awards: 2009 Hebb Award goes to: Erkki Oja 2010 Helmholtz Award goes to: Robert Desimone 2010 Gabor Award goes to: Shun-ichi Amari 2010 INNS Young Investigator Award goes to: Kenji Morita These awards were decided after careful deliberations by the Awards Committee and the Board of Governors. Erkki Oja, the Hebb Award recipient, is recognized for his long- standing contribution and achievements in biological and computational learning. Robert Desimone, the Helmholtz Award recipient, is recognized for his many years of contribution and achievements in understanding sensation/ perception. Shun-ichi Amari, the Gabor Award recipient, is recognized for his achievements in engineering/application of neural networks. Kenji Morita, the Young Investigator Award recipient, is recognized for significant contributions in the field of Neural Networks by a young person (with no more than five years postdoctoral experience and who are under forty years of age). These awards will be presented at IJCNN 2010 in Barcelona. Leonid Perlovsky, Ph.D Chair of the Awards Committee of the INNS ======================================================== Professor Ron Sun President-Elect, International Neural Network Society Cognitive Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A Troy, NY 12180, USA phone: 518-276-3409 fax: 518-276-3017 email: rsun(a)rpi.edu web: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun =======================================================