Acknowledgements

One of the greatest treasures within the academic world is the fabulous group of friends and colleagues that one interacts with. None of the work described in these pages would have been possible without the enthusiastic, stimulating and laborious help of the colleagues here mentioned in alphabetical order:

Aarib Schurger (Chapman University)
Adam Mamelak (Cedars Sinai)
Alfred Mele (Florida State University)
Andrei Barbu (MIT)
Angela Yu (Princeton University)
Alex Golby (BWH)
Alex Kraskov (Caltech)
Alex Papanastassiou (Yale)
Alvin Lyckman (Tufts School of Medicine)
Andrew Su (Genomics Institute of the Novartis Foundation)
Arjun Bansal (Intel)
Boris Katz (MIT)
Bruno Olshausen (UC Berkeley)
Cathey Leamey (University of Sydney)
Carlos Ponce (Harvard Medical School)
Charlene Ellsworth (MIT)
Charles Cadieu (UC Berkeley)
Charles Wilson (UCLA)
Chenguang Li (Harvard University)
Chris Burge (MIT)
Chou Hung (National Yang Ming University, Taiwan)
Costas Anastassiou (Cedars Sinai)
Daniela Tropea (MIT)
David Cox (IBM)
Davide Zoccolan (MIT)
Dylan Hackfield-Mennel (MIT)
Christof Koch (Caltech)
Daniel Weisholtz (Brigham and Women’s Hospital)
David Anderson (Caltech)
David Freedman (University of Chicago)
Dirk Holste (Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna)
Earl Miller (MIT)
Ethan Meyers (MIT)
Eve Isham (Pomona College)
Fabrizio Gabbiani (Baylor College)
Francis Crick (Salk Institute)
Gene Yeo (UCSD)
Geraint Rees (University College London)
Giorgia Dellaferrera (ETH)
Giulio Tononi (U. Wisconsin)
Haim Sompolinsky (Hebrew University)
Hanlin Tang (Harvard University)
Hanspeter Pfister (Harvard University)
Hesheng Liu (MGH)
Itzhak Fried (UCLA)
James DiCarlo (MIT)
Jeremy Wolfe (Harvard Medical School)
Jesse Gray (Harvard)
Jie Zheng (UC Davis)
John Allman (Caltech)
John Hogenesch (University of Pennsylvania)
Jorge Jovicih (University of Trento, Italy)
Joseph Madsen (Children’s Hospital, Harvard)
Judith Steen (Harvard Medical School)
Kohitij Kar (York University)
Leila Reddy (CNRS, France)
Laurent Itti (University of Southern California)
Len Maler (University of Ottawa)
Liad Mudrik (Tel Aviv University)
Lucia Melloni (NYU)
Malena Espanol (Tufts University)
Marcelo Armendariz (Harvard Medical School)
Mariela Zirlinger (Harvard University)
Margaret Livingstone (Harvard Medical School)
Mark Hallet (NIH)
Martin Hemberg (Harvard)
Martin Schrimpf (EPFL)
Matias Ison (U Nottingham)
Michael Pitts (Reed College)
Mike Cook (Genomics Institute of the Novartis Foundation)
Michael Greenberg (Harvard Medical School)
Mengmi Zhang (National University of Singapore)
Minjoon Kouh (MIT)
Mortan Talbot (Harvard University)
Mriganka Sur (MIT)
Nambi Nallasamy (Harvard University)
Nathan Crone (Johns Hopkins University)
Nicholas Knouf (MIT)
Nikos Logothetis (Max Planck Institute, Germany)
Nimrod Shaham (Harvard University)
Peter Steinmetz (University of Minnesota)
Pranav Misra (Harvard University)
Radhika Madhavan (Harvadr Medical School)
Rajamanickam Murugan (India Institute of Technology)
Richard Born (Harvard Medical School)
Rodrigo Quian Quiroga (University of Leicester)
Rick Staba (UCLA)
Ruediger Krahe (Mc Gill University, Canada)
Rufin VanRullen (U Toulouse)
Sam Horng (MIT)
Salomi Sharma (Harvard Medical School)
Sayan Mukherjee (Duke University)
Sceilig Stone (Boston Children’s Hospital)
Sharad Ramanathan (Harvard University)
Shimon Ullman (Weizmann Institute)
Spandan Madan (Harvard University)
Stanley Anderson (BWH)
T.K. Kim (Harvard)
Thomas Miconi (Harvard Medical School)
Thomas Serre (MIT)
Tomaso Poggio (MIT)
Tony Fields (UCLA)
Trenton Bricken (Harvard University)
Ulf Knoblich (MIT)
Uwe Ohler (Duke University)
Ueli Rutishauser (Cedars Sinai)
Uri Maoz (Chapman University)
Vinken Kasper (Harvard Medical School)
Will Xiao (Harvard University)
William Lotter (Harvard University)
Walter Metzner (UCLA)
Yigal Agam (MGH)