Roger Bingham is Co-founder and Director of The Science Network, an Affiliate of the Computational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a member of the Institute for Neural Computation, UC San Diego, and a member of the Executive Committee of the Temporal Dynamics of Learning Center (TDLC), a National Science Foundation (NSF) Science of Learning Center. He is also a member of the Board of Advisors of Scientific American magazine. Co-author of The Origin of Minds: Evolution, Uniqueness, and the New Science of the Self, Bingham has also received many honors for his communication of science - including the National Magazine Award and seven Los Angeles Emmy awards.