[Neurobureau-hubs] brainhacker school

[Pierre Bellec]

@Cameron agreed, 2 weeks is more realistic.

@Daniel, re Banff, there have an on-going program to host workshops in
mathematics. They may have a long workshop format, I'll look into it. For
locations, the problem is not much different than hosting a traditional
brainhack, with maybe more emphasis on local attendants.

@Roberto
Re Nifti, that's recoding nii2mnc, or even re-inventing the minc format.
Looks like some folks are taking this task seriously:
http://www.frontiersin.org/10.3389/conf.fninf.2013.09.00069/event_abstract

Re FSL, you never know what we'll discover.
http://youtu.be/HdWRTleizFU?t=10m54s

Re HCP, trying to test the level of actual security of their database may
indeed be interesting & useful.

Now, regarding what this brainhack school would look like, I guess it would
be like a longer version of brainhack, with most of the time devoted for
attendants to work on their own projects, self-initiated and managed. We
would still have well identified education talks & experts of various tools
available onsite, some general (version control, programming) and some more
specialized (e.g. AFNI), again very much like brainhack. We could also have
some more maker-oriented resources, such as 3D printing, EEG set, or even
an MRI depending on the location (I am pretty sure this could be arranged
in Montreal or Leipzig for example). Maybe even a vibrating shirt, who
knows. In two weeks, participants may be able to take advantage of the
availability of large datasets and computational resources, which has not
been the case in the short version of brainhack. Also, unlike the short
brainhack, participants may be able to actually deliver a concrete output.
Finally, the event should be family friendly for obvious reasons :) I'm
sure my kids could totally work their way through a two weeks lego
projects, especially if we throw in some quadropters as well.


Pierre Bellec
http://simexp-lab.org/brainwiki/doku.php?id=pierrebellec
Telephone              (1) 514 713 5596
SIMEXP lab            http://simexp-lab.org

On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 8:13 AM, rbrto <robertotoro at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes!! Brainhacker school!! We teach people to read the nifti data
> directly from the file with an hex editor, p0wn the unused fields and
> write the results in new fancy formats!!! Make FSL do new types of
> analyses by using buffer overflows, etc :)
> I'm already loving it!!
> (anyone tried sql injection in HCP??)
>
> On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Daniel Margulies
> <daniel.margulies at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I love the idea, Pierre,
> >
> > Any leads on the possibility of doing this as a retreat at the Banff
> Center?
> > Perhaps there are other locations that might be possible as well?
> >
> > Daniel
> >
> > On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 4:21 AM, Pierre Bellec <
> pierre.bellec at criugm.qc.ca>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi guys,
> >>
> >> Just ran into this:
> >> https://www.hackerschool.com/
> >>
> >> We should probably try to organize a summer brainhacker school modeled
> >> after this. 3 months is a tad long, but one month could be doable,
> >> especially if we get, say, the banff center to host the event.
> >>
> >> Best,
> >>
> >> Pierre Bellec
> >> http://simexp-lab.org/brainwiki/doku.php?id=pierrebellec
> >> Telephone              (1) 514 713 5596
> >> SIMEXP lab            http://simexp-lab.org
> >
> >
> >
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