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The LericiPea “Liguri nel Mondo” 2024 Award

Started in 1994 and always supported by the Liguria Region, is awarded to Tomaso Poggio, an internationally renowned scientist, born in Genoa, Ligurian pride in the world.
2024 Nobel Prize Winner in Chemistry Has MIT Ties

Sir Demis Hassabis spent more than a year at The Center for Biological & Computational Learning (CBCL), a direct parent of the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, researching with CBMM's Director Tomaso Poggio and others.
2024 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics Has MIT Ties

Congratulations to John J. Hopfield who spent a year in the Center for Biological Information Processing (CBIP) a grandparent of CBMM.
CBMM's Sam Gershman recipient of Schmidt Sciences Polymath Program Awards Grant

The Schmidt Sciences Polymath Program funds high-risk, innovative projects by providing multi-year grants to top researchers in critical areas from AI to climate change.
King Harald showed off eight international award winners

Norway's King Harald showed off this yea'rs receipients of the Kavli prize including CBMM's Nancy Kanwisher (MIT) and Winrich Freiwald (The Rockefeller University) for their contributions to neuroscience.
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) 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 »

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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 »

Featured news

Evaluating how brains generalize [Harvard University]

January 6, 2025

Data from macaque monkeys reveals flaws in deep neural networks By Anne J. Manning, Harvard Staff Writer | Press contact Among the marvels of the human brain is its ability to generalize. We see an...

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Seminars + events

Quest | CBMM Seminar Series - Aligning deep networks with human vision will requ...

February 11, 2025 - 4:00 pm

Singleton Auditorium (46-3002)

Thomas Serre, Brown University

Abstract: Recent advances in artificial intelligence have been mainly driven by the rapid scaling...

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CBMM spotlight

Moira Dillon: Behold!

Moira Dillon: Behold!

Associated Research Thrust(s):

Development of Intelligence

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Highlighted publications

CBMM Memo No:

152

Q. Liao, Ziyin, L., Gan, Y., Cheung, B., Harnett, M., and Poggio, T., “Self-Assembly of a Biologically Plausible Learning Circuit”. 2024.

CBMM Memo No:

151

A. Pinto, Rangamani, A., and Poggio, T., “On Generalization Bounds for Neural Networks with Low Rank Layers”. 2024.

CBMM Memo No:

150

L. Ziyin, Chuang, I., Galanti, T., and Poggio, T., “Formation of Representations in Neural Networks”. 2024.

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The success of CBMM and the people who made it possible

Over the last 11+ years, the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines has become a place of gathering brilliant minds to discuss and solve the challenges and questions of intelligence, organic and...

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