Stephen David Larson is a Ph.D candidate in Neuroscience at the University of California, San Diego, and received his Master and Bachelor of Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  His work is at the intersection between the study of the structure and function of the nervous system and modern computational technologies that expose structured data on the internet both graphically and textually, in a discipline known as Neuroinformatics.  His projects include several online resources for neuroscience such as neurolex.org and wholebraincatalog.org.  His Master's thesis dealt with self-organizing knowledge representations in the field of artificial intelligence.  He has published in several academic journals and presented at two dozen forums. Previously, Stephen worked as a professional software engineer for a major Wall Street investment bank.