Welcome to the MINDS group at the Unversity of Groningen!
We try to understand how intelligent (wide sense) information processing can arise from the high-dimensional dynamics in nonlinear material substrates, such as brains or the non-digital microchips of the future.
Understanding, for us, means mathematical modeling. Our models should be insightfully descriptive and lend themselves to effective and efficient computing procedures.
We draw inspiration from partnering with researchers in computational neuroscience, robotics, neuromorphic and optical computing, mathematics and theoretical computer science. We are very much engaged in the Interdisciplinary College (IK).
In our teaching, the big aim is to help students make friends with the majestic powers of mathematical abstraction in AI and machine learning.
MINDS was Herbert Jaeger’s research team in the AI Department of the
Bernoulli Institute in the
Faculty of Engineering and Science,
Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. MINDS was also a member of the
Groningen Cognitive Systems and Materials Center (CogniGron). After Jaeger’s retirement in June 2025, MINDS continues to exist in the minds of MINDsies, and Herbert Jaeger is happily even doing more research than ever before, because now he has more time for it. This website (still maintained) is evolving toward a more and more personal site of Herbert.