Category theory and biological systems

["M. Healy" <mjhealy@u.washington.edu>]

Since the subject has been mentioned, I'd like to point to our
investigation of the semantics of neural networks using category theory.
It started much more recently than Andree's, of which I became aware only
a year or two ago.  We differ somewhat in approach, although we've been
using some of Andree's ideas.

My partner Tom Caudell and I have been doing research in neural networks
for many years, our approach being a combination of mathematics and
cognitive neuroscience.  We started applying category theory in our
semantic modeling a few years ago and are now developing architectures
from it.  Some references are easily accessible on my web page at
http://cialab.ee.washington.edu .  I'm under Affiliate Faculty, and
there's a link to publications near the bottom of my home page.  The
categorical ones are conference papers, toward the bottom of the
publications page (though if you're that interested, please let me send
you a corrected version of the 2000 Como paper).  We welcome feedback as
well as questions.

Mike

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