Editorial

摘要

It was with great sadness that I learned of the death last year of the great computational neuroscientist and founding Editor of this journal, Daniel Amit. Daniel was a pioneer in the application to neuroscience of modelling principles common in physics. He was extremely influential in the birth of modern computational neuroscience in many other ways besides founding Network, as evidenced for instance by the thousands of citations to his seminal work on spin-glass models of neural networks with Gutfreund and Sompolinsky and his seminal 1989 textbook 'Modeling Brain Function: The World of Attractor Neural Networks' (Cambridge University Press). A more complete appreciation of his life and work appears after this Editorial, written by his former collaborator and Network Editorial Board Member, Nicolas Brunei.