[pymvpa] 2009 Pittsburgh Brain Connectivity Competition

[Michael Hanke]

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 02:19:44PM +0100, Emanuele Olivetti wrote:
> Dear All,
> 
> As maybe you already know, last Friday the 2009 Pittsburgh Brain
> Connectivity Competition was announced:
> 
> http://www.braincompetition.org
> 
> As far as I can see it is in early stage and there will be a "webinar"
> in less than two hours (10:00 am US Eastern time) to give more details
> about the problem to solve. The topic of this year is "connectivity".

Thanks for the note!

> Besides participating, which can be of interest for some of you, I'd
> like to mention that it could be a nice opportunity to advertise
> PyMVPA. I don't know if this competition will focus on machine
> learning stuff, but in case it will (like in past years), then just
> writing some example code to access the contest's datasets and sending
> an annoucement of PyMVPA as a tool to play the game to the
> competition's forums would reach lots of people working in this field
> and so enforce PyMVPA adoption.

Yeah, good idea -- I was trying to access the webinar, but it looks like
they require a windows player -- too bad...


Michael

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