Event Summary: Join us for a session with INNS Founding President and pioneer of computational neuroscience and neural networks, Dr. Stephen Grossberg. The event will open with a host-streamed screening of Dr. Grossberg’s invited lecture from the MIT SilverMinds symposium, "Overview of My Life in Science," detailing his scientific journey, discoveries, and the cultural landscape of neural modeling since 1957. Following the video presentation, Dr. Grossberg will join the audience live for an open Q&A.

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Speaker Bio: Steve Grossberg introduced the neural network paradigm for modeling how our brains make our minds when he was a 17-year-old Dartmouth College freshman in 1957, as well as the main equations that are still used to do so. With over 100 collaborators, he has continued to the present time to discover and develop models of the main processes whereby our brains make our conscious minds in healthy individuals and clinical patients, including how, where in our brains, and why from a deep computational perspective, we can consciously see, hear, feel, and know about objects and events in a rapidly changing world that is filled with unexpected events.

See sites.bu.edu/steveg for almost 600 downloadable archival articles that develop neural network models of these processes and use them to explain and simulate lots of psychological and neurobiological data.

In addition to his scientific work, Grossberg was:

• Founder and First President of the International Neural Network Society (INNS) in 1987.
• Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the INNS journal Neural Networks from 1987–2010.
• Founder and General Chairman of the first INNS Annual Meeting in 1988, which evolved into IJCNN.

These events triggered the founding of other societies, journals, and conferences.

Grossberg has also written two self-contained and non-technical books to provide unifying summaries of these personal and scientific results:

• Grossberg, S. (2026). Your Creative Brain and AI: How We Learn and Consciously Experience Art, Music, and Meaning (Oxford University Press | Amazon)
• Grossberg, S. (2021). Conscious Mind, Resonant Brain: How Each Brain Makes a Mind (Oxford University Press | Amazon)