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Tomer Ullman

Tomer Ullman
Tomer
Ullman
Investigator
Harvard University
Department:  Department of Psychology

Associated Research Thrust: 

  • Development of Intelligence
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Website: 
  • http://www.mit.edu/~tomeru/

Current Advisees

Felix Sosa - Graduate Student

Projects

The computational role of eccentricity dependent resolution in the retina: consequences for hierarchical models of object recognition

Projects

Learning Physics from Dynamic Scenes
The development of intuitive physics

CBMM Publications

S. Liu, Ullman, T., Tenenbaum, J. B., and Spelke, E. S., “Ten-month-old infants infer value from effort”, Society for Research in Child Development. 2017.
T. Ullman, Tenenbaum, J. B., and Spelke, E. S., “Critical Cues in Early Physical Reasoning”, SRCD. Austin, TX, 2017.
S. Liu, Ullman, T., Tenenbaum, J. B., and Spelke, E. S., “Ten-month-old infants infer value from effort”, SRCD. Austin, TX, 2017.
B. M. Lake, Ullman, T., Tenenbaum, J. B., and Gershman, S. J., “Building machines that learn and think like people”. 2016.
T. Ullman, Tenenbaum, J. B., and Spelke, E. S., “Effort as a bridging concept across action and action understanding: Weight and Physical Effort in Predictions of Efficiency in Other Agents”, in International Conference on Infant Studies (ICIS) , New Orleans, Louisiana, 2016.
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News & Videos:

December 3, 2019
Helping machines perceive some laws of physics [MIT News]
November 22, 2019
Physics, real and fictional: Study explores how humans’ sense of ‘intuitive physics’ leaves fingerprints on fictional worlds [The Harvard Gazette]
June 5, 2018
Tomer Ullman
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Draping an Elephant
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Cardinal Mass
June 6, 2014
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