Final Google Summer of Code presentations are live!

The final presentation for Google Summer of Code students in the Representational Brains and Phenotypes (Sam and Jim) and DevoWorm (Arnab) groups are now available! The summer went quite well: skills were taught, lessons were imparted, and computing projects were advanced. Here are the links to each project submission and summary video.

 

Sam's final talk (YouTube) and project repository (Github).

Arnab's final talk (YouTube) and project repository (Github).

Cheng-Hsun (Jim)'s final talk (YouTube) and project repo (Github).

Sam and Jim worked to advance the Contextual Geometric Structures framework (link 1, link 2) using different approaches. Both projects involved a mix of evolutionary algorithms, computational linguistics, hybrid modeling, and representational AI. The Google n-gram database was used to provide a source of training data.

Arnab worked on an XML framework for organizing embryo data at the cellular level. This not only provides the DevoWorm group with a link to more specific XML and simulation frameworks, but also moves us towards network-based representational models of the embryo.