Boston-NeuroTalks

Boston-NeuroTalks consolidates talk announcements of neuroscience and cognitive science in the greater Boston area.
Significance
It is the largest free service of the same kind and popularly accessed in the format of email or calendar.
As of 2009, around 700 (cognitive) neuroscientists are using Boston-NeuroTalks.
As a service for one of the major (cognitive) neuroscience communities in the world, the mission of Boston-NeuroTalks is to help the latest neuroscientific discoveries to spread faster and wider, thus expediting the understanding of the human brain. In addition, the talk database can be used for neuroinformatics studies on the development and relationship of key concepts or opinion leaders in (cognitive) neuroscience.
Inspired by Boston-NeuroTalks, similar services are provided in other cities such as Trieste area Cognitive Science and Neuroscience talks.
Email Service
In 2000, the Boston-NeuroTalks emailing list was founded as a Yahoo group to solve the problem that students often miss out on interesting talks not because they don't get the announcments, but because they don't realize their relevance. Therefore, the early version of Boston-NeuroTalks not only forwarded the time/place/title info, but also prefaced many of the notices with mini intros briefly explaining who the speaker is and why the talk might be interesting.
Calendar Service
In 2007, an accompanied calendar service was introduced to organize around 800 announcements
sent out per year by Boston-NeuroTalks. In 2008, more
than 1000 events with detailed abstracts were calendared, which translates to 3 talks per day on average. In 2009, [http://cns.bu.edu/~tren/ical/doc Boston-NeuroTalks Calendar 2.0] implemented the idea of WikiCalendar on the Google platform. Users of Google Calendar can freely add/edit entries in the Boston-NeuroTalks calendar once the permission is passed down from other users.
Contributors
Over years, Boston-NeuroTalks evolves due to the contributions from people listed below. They served as moderators and actively maintained the email and/or calendar databases.
2009: Yohan John & Siddharth Rajaram
2008: Neel Kishan, Siddharth Rajaram, & Tsung-Ren Huang
2005-2007: Tsung-Ren Huang, Arial Brown, & Aaron Seitz
2003-2004: Satrajit Ghosh, Chaitanya Sai, Rajeev Raizada, & Aaron Seitz
2000-2002: Satrajit Ghosh, Rajeev Raizada, & Aaron Seitz

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