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Engineering Intelligence [McGovern Institute]

AI advances by industry giants like Google and Tesla, are based on engineering and computation, and little work in humans. Algorithms behind this tech come out of neuroscience research, so one of the next breakthroughs will likely come from here as well.
Congratulations to Prof. Nancy Kanwisher for receiving the 2018 Heineken Prize!

Prof. Kanwisher has received the The Heineken Prize "for her highly original, meticulous and cogent research on the functional organization of the human brain” and will be presented at an award ceremony on Sept. 27, 2018, in Amsterdam.
Applications are now open for Brains, Minds + Machines Summer Course 2018; Deadline: April 9, 2018

An intensive three-week course which will give a “deep end” introduction to the problem of intelligence. Course will be held from Aug. 9, 2018 through Aug. 30, 2018, at MBL, Woods Hole, MA.
The Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course is now available on the MIT Open Course Ware website!

This course explores the problem of intelligence-its nature, how it is produced by the brain and how it could be replicated in machines—using an approach that integrates cognitive science, neuroscience, computer science, and artificial intelligence.
Congratulations to Prof. Nancy Kanwisher for receiving the 2018 Davida Teller Award.

The VSS Davida Teller Award was established in 2013 and is given to "an outstanding woman vision scientist with a strong history of mentoring."
Congratulations to Prof. Ed Boyden, the inaugural Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology!

“Ed’s body of work has already transformed neuroscience and biomedicine, and this chair will help his team to further develop revolutionary tools that will have a profound impact on research worldwide.” - Robert Desimone, Director McGovern Institute

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The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM)
is a multi-institutional NSF Science and Technology Center
dedicated to the study of intelligence - how the brain produces intelligent
behavior and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines.

The Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) is a multi-institutional NSF Science and Technology Center dedicated to the study of intelligence - how the brain produces intelligent behavior and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines.

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Ed Boyden receives 2018 Canada Gairdner International Award

March 27, 2018

"MIT scientist among three recognized for the discovery of optogenetics by Julie Pryor Ed Boyden, the Y. Eva Tan Professor in Neurotechnology at MIT, has been named a recipient of the 2018 Canada...

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CBMM spotlight

Karolina Marciniak: Intuitive Physics

Karolina Marciniak: Intuitive Physics

Associated Research Thrust(s):

Neural Circuits for Intelligence

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Highlighted publications

D. Harari, Tenenabum, J. B., and Ullman, S., “Discovery and usage of joint attention in images”, arXiv.org, 2018.

CBMM Memo No:

077

A. Adler and Wax, M., “Constant Modulus Algorithms via Low-Rank Approximation”. 2018.

CBMM Memo No:

076

H. Mhaskar and Poggio, T., “An analysis of training and generalization errors in shallow and deep networks”. 2018.

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A conversation with Prof. Mikhail Belkin

On April 18, 2018, CBMM Director Tomaso Poggio had the opportunity to sit down and chat briefly with Prof. Mikhail Belkin of Ohio State University.

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