Brain-based model represent the ‘new wave in AI computing’, a paradigm shift in the way intelligent applications can be designed and deployed in real-life applications. Recently, me and two colleagues have founded Neurala LLC, a startup focused in the development of a technology platform that enables programmers to write brain-based algorithms that exploit emerging, low-cost parallel hardware components (www.neurala.com).

Tutorials

- The CNS Tech Lab software repository. Provides a number of software for download, ranging from machine vision, to machine learning, to neural modeling, completed of MATLAB source code and documentation. Many of the available software tools have been used in industrial applicaitons [2009]

- What is SyNAPSE?. Find out about one of the most ambitious project in the field of... well, computer science and brain modeling! [2009]

Papers

- Predicting the exchange traded fund DIA with a combination of Genetic Algorithms and Neural Networks. Versace M, Bhatt R, Hinds O and Shiffer M, Expert Systems With Applications, 27, 3, 417-425. Download the HTML or PDF version. See the slide show of the oral presentation at Financial Engineering and Application conference in October 2004 [2004]

- Optimizing financial applications through biologically-inspired methods. Versace M, Bhatt R, Hinds O and Shiffer M, Proceedings International Conference on Financial Engineering and Application, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA, November 2004. Download the PDF version [2004]

- Automatic feature selection in financial time series forecasting. Wong, C., Versace, M., Carpenter, G. Book chapter in preparation, to appear in Neural learning systems:  From biological computation to recognition technology, Springer Series:  Studies in Computational Intelligence, Janusz Kacprzyk, Editor. [2008]

Abstracts

- Brain-inspired computing. Versace, M., Gorchetchnikov, A., Chandler, B., Kozma, R.T., Ames, H.M., and Mingolla, E. (2010). iSLC meeting, Boston, MA, USA. Oral presentatiion. [2010]

- How to build a brain on a nanochip. Versace, M., Gorchetichnikov, A., Chandler, B., Kozma, R.T., Ames, H.M., and Mingolla, E. (2010). iSLC 2010, Boston, MA, USA [2010]. See Abstract

- Institutionalizing translational research practices with the CELEST Catalyst. Ames, H.M., Versace, M. (2010). NSF CELEST site visit, Boston, MA, March [2010]

- Putting the Dollars and Sense Back into Financial Forecasting with Neural Networks.  Wong, C., and Versace, M. ICCNS 2010, Boston, MA, USA. [2010]

- Applied brain-based learning models. Versace, M., Ames, H., Chandler, B., and Lorenz, S. ICCNS 2010, Boston, MA, USA. [2010]

- Simulating Biologically Realistic Neural Models on Graphic Processing Units. Gorchetchnikov, M., Ames, H. and Versace, M. Poster presentation, ICCNS 2008, Boston, MA, USA [2008]

- Default ARTMAP with self-adjusting learning rate. Bhatt R, Versace M. Poster, International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems (ICCNS 2004). Download the PDF version. [2004]

- Optimizing financial applications through biologically-inspired methods. Oral presentation at the Financial Engineering and Application conference in November 2004, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA. See our power Point presentation: slide show or download the whole presentation with sounds and comments (38 MB). [2004]

Patents

- Graphic Processor Based Accelerator System and Method. Gorchetchnikov, A., Ames, H.M., Versace, M., and Santini, F. U.S. Utility Patent filed on September 24, 2007 (Application Number 11860254). [2007]

Neural Network in Financial Forecasting

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Startup company

www.neurala.com