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Ila Fiete wins Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience

SfN has awarded the Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience to Prof. Ila Fiete. Fiete received the prize for her breakthrough research modeling hippocampal grid cells, a component of the navigational system of the mammalian brain.
Welcome to the new Hyundai AI Institute and to its Director Marc Raibert!

Hyundai Motor Group and Boston Dynamics announced the launch of the Boston Dynamics AI Institute, to “spearhead advancements in artificial intelligence and robotics.”
Understanding reality through algorithms [MIT News]

Neuroscience PhD student Fernanda De La Torre uses complex algorithms to investigate philosophical questions about perception and reality.
SVRHM Call for Papers @ NeurIPS 2022

The 4th Workshop on Shared Visual Representations in Human and Machine Intelligence at NeurIPS 2022 will discuss and share relevant findings and parallels between the comp. neuro/cognitive science and machine learning/artificial intelligence communities.
Amnon Shahua inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame

CBMM’s EAC member Amnon Shahua was recently inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame as the 2022 Mobility Innovator.
Brains, Minds + Machines Summer Course | MBL Woods Hole, MA

An intensive three-week course which gives a “deep end” introduction to the problem of intelligence.

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The Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines (CBMM)
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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.

Summer course students working / Marine Biology Lab, Woodshole, MA

Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer Course

A CBMM flagship program, the Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer Course is an immersive 3-week course that provides a broad introduction to research on human & machine intelligence, combining three core disciplines — computation, neuroscience, and cognition — where students learn about common empirical & theoretical methods used in the field, and compelling results of this research, with an emphasis on the scientific mission of the Center.read more »

Prof. Nancy Kanwisher lecturing to a room full of students

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Explore the science of intelligence through lectures, tutorials, and courses offered by the CBMM community, and experiment with modeling and data analysis tools used in neuroscience, cognitive science, and AI, to study intelligence in brains and machines!read more »

Featured news

Using sound to model the world [MIT News]

November 1, 2022

This machine-learning system can simulate how a listener would hear a sound from any point in a room. Adam Zewe | MIT News Office Imagine the booming chords from a pipe organ echoing through the...

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Seminars + events

CBMM Research Meeting: Electrophysiological and optogenetic characterization of...

December 6, 2022 - 4:00 pm

McGovern Seminar Room (46-3189)

Diego Mendoza-Halliday, Research Scientist, McGovern Institu...

In person and open to the MIT Community. Abstract: Visual attention and working memory are...

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CBMM spotlight

Hector Penagos: Memories

Hector Penagos: Memories

Associated Research Thrust(s):

Neural Circuits for Intelligence, Co-Investigators

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Highlighted publications

CBMM Memo No:

138

T. A. Poggio, “Compositional Sparsity: a framework for ML”. 2022.

F. Anselmi and Poggio, T., “Representation Learning in Sensory Cortex: a theory”, IEEE Access, pp. 1 - 1, 2022.

CBMM Memo No:

137

A. Rangamani and Xie, Y., “Understanding the Role of Recurrent Connections in Assembly Calculus”. 2022.

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Introduction and Welcome

Jim DiCarlo, MIT BCS, MIT Quest, MIT CBMM
Nergis Mavalvala, Dean of MIT School of Science

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