Alex Bäcker's Publications
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Papers
Conference Abstracts
Patents
Code
Math & Science Explanations
Talks
Ideas
Op-Eds and Letters to the Editor
Travel Stories
Buying Guides
Public service
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Thesis
Bäcker, A. (2002) Pattern recognition in locust early olfactory circuits: Priming, gain control and coding issues. Individual chapters by topic.Papers
Evolution:Bäcker, A. (1999) Mutator Genes and Natural Selection: On Richard Dawkins' Climbing Mount Improbable
Flow Cytometry:
Bäcker, A. (2001) A Simple Formula to Accurately Subtract Positivity of Cytometric Negative Controls.
History of Science and Scientometrics:
Bäcker, A. (2004) Growth and democratization of science. 4th International Conference on University Evaluation and Research Evaluation.
Boyack, K. & Bäcker, A. (2004) The Growth and Memory of Science. Submitted.
Bäcker, A. (2004). A Future for Scientific Discourse. Submitted
Boyack, K. & Bäcker, A. (2003) The Memory of Science. 9th International Conference of the Society of Scientometrics and Informetrics.
Human-Machine Interfaces:
Bäcker, A. & Peral, E. (1997) A remote video eye tracker. Caltech CNS/EE 148 Technical Report, 1997.
Data mining, Learning and Self-Organization:
Martin, S. & Bäcker, A. (2005) Estimating manifold dimension by inversion error. 20th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing.
Hipp, J. & Bäcker, A. (2004). An activity-dependent model of the nose to brain mapping. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting.
Zhigulin, V. and Bäcker, A. (2002) Self-organization of neural networks into winnerless competition: A local learning rule achieves antisymmetric co-regulation of distant synapses
Statistics:
Bäcker, A. (2002) The probability that a single underlying binomial distribution yields two given success proportions: A hypothesis test
Bäcker, A. (2002) Fractional K-nearest neighbors: Dealing with nonuniform sampling
Bäcker, A. and Cassenaer, S. (2002) Asymmetric sliding-window cross-correlation
Neural Coding:
Brown, W.M. and Bäcker, A. (2006) Optimal Neuronal Tuning for a Finite Stimulus Space. Neural Computation.
Bäcker, A. (2002) The information content of neurons engaged in population temporal coding in early olfactory circuits
Bäcker, A. (2002) The role of synchronization in the decoding of temporal information contained in neuronal assemblies
Bäcker, A. (2002) Multiplexing odor identity and concentration information with a population temporal code
MacLeod, K., Bäcker A., & Laurent, G. (1998) Who reads temporal information contained across synchronized and oscillatory spike trains? Nature 395, 693-698. Abstract -
Bäcker, A. and Wehr, M. (1997) Response variability is correlated across multiple projection neurons in the antennal lobe of the locust
Olfaction:
Hipp, J. & Bäcker, A. (2004). An activity-dependent model of the nose to brain mapping. Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting.
Bäcker, A. (2002) Olfaction and the Chemical Senses. A Review.
Bäcker, A. (2002) The olfactory system is invariant to volatility
Bäcker, A. (2002) Hedonic valence of odors in the locust, Schistocerca americana
Bäcker, A. (2002) A computerized odor delivery system for arbitrary time-varying concentrations and mixtures
Bäcker, A. (2002) Gain control via a balance of excitation and inhibition in early olfactory circuits
Bäcker, A. (2002) Priming in early olfactory circuits
Bäcker, A. (2002) Odor categorization: Attractors in the representations of odors in the antennal lobe have sharp boundaries
Bäcker, A. (2002) The connectivity between the locust antennal lobes and mushroom bodies: Combinatorics of a representation
Sleep:
Bäcker, A. (1994) To sleep, perchance to dream. The Harvard Brain I: 50-55.
Visual Search:
Bäcker, A. and Peral, E. (1999) Visual search: amnesic or undecided? 1999 Vision Research Conference, Fort Lauderdale, FL.
Reprints available upon request.
Society for Neuroscience Abstracts
SFN '02 (Orlando):
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Inventions and patents
Queryless search
Query-specific PageRank
Network-based trust evaluation.
System for authentication of electronic communications.
Electronic video window.
Computational Method to Find Interactions between Genes Using Multiple Genomes.
User-specific Adaptive Method to Sort Search Results by Relevance for the World Wide Web and other Interconnected Data Structures.
A Remote Video-based Eye Tracker.
Automatic Methods to build Ontologies.
Method to Automatically Associate a Web Page or Document with an Expression and Summarize Documents.
Method to Direct Users to Relevant Portion of a Web Document.
Treatment and prevention for AIDS.
Code
Backer (2002): The probability that a single underlying binomial distribution yields two given success proportions: A hypothesis test without the usual approximations and assumptions. MATLAB code • Paper describing algorithm
Explanations
Free WillElection Statistics (Bush vs. Gore, Florida, 2000)
Bäcker, A. (2000) Multiple Comparisons: How to account for multiple measurements or experiments to obtain a proper estimate of statistical significance of your results
Probability of flipping all pancakes with N flips of a pan
The Twins Paradox & Relativity
Talks
The Growth, Memory and Democratization of Science, H+, Caltech, December 5 2010.
The mathematics of understanding: A graph theoretical study of meaning and the self-referential nature of knowledge. Stanford ICME, March 3, 2005.
A Cost-Based Metric to Measure Similarity between Spike Trains.
The Role of Temporal Coding and Synchronization in the Brain
Ideas
Campaign Reform & a Proposal for a Political System without Parties
Incentives for Long Term Thinking by Public Officials
Sobre como elegir colaboradores politicos
Letters to the Editor of The New York Times
A proposed solution to the UPS crisis: Part-time labor and the proper distribution of wages and benefits (published 1997). A defense of freedom of speech and meritocracy: Comment on the closedown of the student newspaper at Stuyvesant High School (published 1998). Right to bear arms, the Second Amendment, responsibility and child crime prevention: A response to Charlton Heston
Letters to the Editor of The Los Angeles Times
So-called medical attention (August 2000).Double standards and preventive warfare? (February 2002)
Los Angeles Times Op-Eds
Cartas de Lectores a LA NACION
Periodismo con fuentes (Junio 2001).
Articles for The California Tech
Telling a Person from Trash: A Macintosh Computer's Psychological Problem.
Other Essays
A day in the life of Washington, D.C.: An encounter with U.S. Marshals, Russian presidential candidate Alexander Lebed and inequality at the U.S. Holocaust Museum From California to the Spanish Levante and Back in 96 Hours
Guides
Public Service
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