[visionlist] Scholarpedia: Brain Corporation $10k Prize in Computational Neuroscience

[Eugene Izhikevich]

Scholarpedia (www.scholarpedia.org) and Brain Corporation (http://braincorporation.com/) announce a global experiment in scholarship and collaboration.

The goal is to complete the most comprehensive, open, current , and scholarly resource in computational neuroscience:  http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Encyclopedia_of_computational_neuroscience

Many of the topics in this encyclopedia are related to dynamical systems.

Brain Corporation is offering $10,000 (US) in prizes for writing and publishing the most popular Scholarpedia article in the field of Computational Neuroscience.

As a Scholarpedia entry, each such article will undergo normal peer-review and publication process. The article must be published in Scholarpedia between October 1, 2012 and January 31, 2013 in order to participate in the contest. All participating articles will be publicly available under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 License. 

The winning Scholarpedia articles will be determined based on the number of Google +1 votes receive after publication, and the award will be given during the COSYNE'13 meeting.

In order to reserve an article in Scholarpedia for this competition, students and post-docs will need to team up with established experts on the topic they choose to cover.

For details on how to participate, please visit:
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Scholarpedia:2012_Brain_Corporation_Prize_in_Computational_Neuroscience

Presently, the leader is 
http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Frontal_eye_field
with 46 Google +1 votes.

-- 
Dr. Eugene M. Izhikevich
Founder and CEO of Brain Corporation, San Diego, California
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Scholarpedia -- the peer-reviewed open-access encyclopedia.