Month: April 2021

Do You Need to Wear a Mask Outdoors?

While infectious disease experts agree that wearing a face mask indoors reduces the risk of transmitting COVID-19, there are varying opinions about their effectiveness outdoors. According to NPR, about two dozen states… Read Full Article (External Site) Dr. David LowemannDr. David Lowemann, M.Sc, Ph.D., is a co-founder of the Institute for the Future of Human […]

Published on April 22, 2021

PyGeNN: A Python Library for GPU-Enhanced Neural Networks

More than half of the Top 10 supercomputing sites worldwide use GPU accelerators and they are becoming ubiquitous in workstations and edge computing devices. GeNN is a C++ library for generating efficient spiking neural network simulation code for GPUs. However, until now, the full flexibility of GeNN could only be harnessed by writing model descriptions […]

Published on April 22, 2021

QDECR: A Flexible, Extensible Vertex-Wise Analysis Framework in R

The cerebral cortex is fundamental to the functioning of the mind and body. In vivo cortical morphology can be studied through magnetic resonance imaging in several ways, including reconstructing surface-based models of the cortex. However, existing software for surface-based statistical analyses cannot accommodate “big data” or commonly used statistical methods such as the imputation of […]

Published on April 22, 2021