{"id":29200,"date":"2024-10-15T17:16:28","date_gmt":"2024-10-15T08:16:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/?p=29200"},"modified":"2025-09-02T14:43:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T05:43:36","slug":"20241008_mou_cifar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/news\/20241008_mou_cifar","title":{"rendered":"Oct 15, 2024: [NEWS] CIFAR President Prof. Stephen Toope Visits WPI-IRCN to Renew MoU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>&emsp;\u3000On October 8, 2024, Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/cifar.ca\/bios\/stephen-toope\/\"><font color=bulue>Stephen Toope<\/font color=bulue><\/a>, President & CEO of the <a href=\"https:\/\/cifar.ca\/\"><font color=bulue>Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)<\/font color=bulue><\/a>, visited the WPI-IRCN and formally signed a renewal of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between CIFAR and the WPI-IRCN, which aims to elucidate the basic principles of neural circuit development to promote research and development of innovative artificial intelligence (AI) based on the principles of brain function. From the IRCN, Prof. Kazuyuki Aihara, Executive Director, Prof. Masamitsu Iino, Special Advisor to the Director, and Prof. Mayumi Kimura, Administrative Director were present to discuss with Prof. Toope their future promotion of joint research and interaction as well as holding of workshops and research meetings.<br \/>\n&emsp;\u3000Serendipitously, later the same day, CIFAR pioneer, Dr Geoffrey Hinton was awarded the Nobel Prize for current neuro-inspired A.I. (Deep Neural Networks).<\/p>\n<style>\n    .responsive-table {\n        display: flex;\n        flex-wrap: wrap;\n        justify-content: center;\n        gap: 16px;\n    }<\/p>\n<p>    .responsive-cell {\n        display: flex;\n        flex-direction: column;\n        align-items: center;\n        width: 100%;\n        max-width: 300px;\n    }<\/p>\n<p>    .responsive-cell img {\n        width: 100%;\n        height: auto;\n    }<\/p>\n<p>    .responsive-cell font {\n        font-size: 14px;\n        text-align: center;\n        margin-top: 8px;\n    }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"responsive-table\">\n<div class=\"responsive-cell\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/1d3fb0dc95484aea8b7bbccb7e7f84bc-e1728980004385.png\"\/>\n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"responsive-cell\">\n        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/ededbdb66a27c7d0332af16f44023671-e1728980041689.png\"\/>\n            <\/div>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&emsp;\u3000On October 8, 2024, Prof. Stephen Toope, President &#038; CEO of the Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), visited the WPI-IRCN and formally signed a renewal of the Memorandum of Underst [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":29217,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/6c2ddf7eb01058ea19f3f89a100d3f6c.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Xf4o-7AY","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29200"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29200"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29200\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29215,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29200\/revisions\/29215"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ircn.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}