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David Sussillo spent five years in the Albuquerque Christian Children’s Home and four years at the Milton Hershey School as a child. After graduating high school, he ultimately received a Ph.D. from Columbia University in Computational Neuroscience.

Now David is an adjunct professor at Stanford University and has been a scientist at the Google Brain group (recently featured in the book Genius Makers) and Meta Reality Labs. In his professional pursuits, David researches brain-machine interfaces to develop the next generation of computers. He works to understand the ghost in the machine—how cells in our brain collectively give rise to the computations that determine behavior.

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Emergence: A Memoir of Boyhood, Computation, and the Mysteries of Mind

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Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

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