The Center for Brains, Minds & Machines

Professor Patrick Winston, former director of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, dies at 76

Beloved professor conducted pioneering research on imbuing machines with human-like intelligence, including the ability to understand stories.
The State of Autonomous Driving

On March 19, 2019, CBMM External Advisory Committee member and CBMM collaborator Dr. Amnon Shashua presented progress on autonomous driving and other AI based adaptive technologies.
The Power of Self-Learning Systems

On March 20, 2019, CBMM External Advisory Committee member and CBMM collaborator Dr. Demis Hassabis presented progress on self-learning systems work at Google DeepMind with examples from AlphaGo and AlphaStar.
The Science of Intelligence Learning Hub is now online!

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!
Brains, Minds + Machines Summer Course 2019 | MBL Woods Hole, MA

An intensive three-week course which will give a “deep end” introduction to the problem of intelligence. Course will be held from Aug. 8, 2019 through Aug. 29, 2019, at MBL, Woods Hole, MA, Application Deadline: April 8, 2019
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.

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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

The Science of Intelligence Learning Hub

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 »

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What do infants know about actions they cannot yet perform?

August 21, 2019

We view ourselves and others as causal agents who pursue goals and act efficiently to make things happen, but where do these intuitions come from? In a new paper funded by the Center for Brains,...

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CBMM spotlight

Leyla Isik: Magnetoencephalography

Leyla Isik: Magnetoencephalography

Associated Research Thrust(s):

Neural Circuits for Intelligence, Social Intelligence

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Highlighted publications

CBMM Memo No:

098

H. N. Mhaskar and Poggio, T., “Function approximation by deep networks”. 2019.

C. R. Ponce, Xiao, W., Schade, P. F., Hartmann, T. S., Kreiman, G., and Livingstone, M. S., “Evolving Images for Visual Neurons Using a Deep Generati...

P. Bashivan, Kar, K., and DiCarlo, J. J., “Neural Population Control via Deep Image Synthesis”, Science, vol. 364, no. 6439, 2019.

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What do infants know about actions they cannot yet perform?

Harvard University graduate student Shari Liu discuses their findings about how human infants by 3-months-old already have an abstract notion of other people, their goals and their actions, as...

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