John Hopfield Awarded Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience

John J. Hopfield, Martin A. and Helen Chooljian Visiting Professor in Biology in the Simons Center for Systems Biology in the School of Natural Sciences, has been awarded the 2012 Society for Neuroscience Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience. The prize recognizes Hopfield's exceptional contributions to the field of computational neuroscience, including "rigorous and elegant" models of neural networks.