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justin wood seminar talk
Watch Prof. Justin Wood's Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar talk "Building newborn minds in virtual worlds," taped on April 28, 2015, in McGovern 46-3189.
Prof. Thomas Serre Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series talk.
Watch Prof. Thomas Serre's Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series talk "Towards a system-level theory of computation in the visual cortex," taped on April 14, 2015, in the Singleton Auditorium, MIT.
Watch Prof. Amnon Shashua's Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series talk "Computer Vision that is Changing Our World," taped on March 23, 2015, in the Singleton Auditorium, MIT.
Group photo of the 2014 summer course attendees
CBMM Memo 024 is compilation of abstracts from the student projects of the 2014 Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer Course student projects.
Photo of Postdoc Gemma Roig Noguera and PhD student Steve Voinea at the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines.
"Brain Training…for Machines: ... Poggio, who directs the MIT-based Center for Brains, Minds and Machines, is trying to endow computers with more human-like intelligence. "
Portrait of Prof. Shimon Ullman
Prof. Ullman honored for his “far-reaching contributions to artificial intelligence and general cognition, and particularly in the field of computer vision, and for his significant contribution to the development of the hightech industry."
Graphic of brain and video game characters.
Game-playing software holds lessons for neuroscience by Elizabeth Gibney on February 25, 2015 Photo credit: Google DeepMind
Image of a maze in the shape of a brain.
Nancy Kanwisher: What Does It Take To Map The Human Brain?; Rebecca Saxe: How Do We Know What Other People Are Thinking?
Future of Life Institute
The Future of Life Institute, based in Cambridge, MA and headed by Max Tegmark (MIT), is seeking proposals for research projects aimed to maximize the future societal benefit of artificial intelligence while avoiding potential hazards.
“Dahlia” by Katinka Matson | www.katinkamatson.com
The Edge Foundation poses an annual questions to researchers and intellectuals. The Edge Question 2015 is “WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?”
Is Research in Intelligence an Existential Risk?
Prof. Tomaso Poggio responds to the public debate regarding the risks of AI (Artificial Intelligence). This is the first View published in the new CBMM's View+Reviews series.
The Road to Intelligence - CBMM Panel Discussion (video)
Watch the video of the CBMM panel discussion "The Road to Intelligence," with Profs. Geoffrey E. Hinton, Bob Desimone, Laura Schulz, Josh Tenenbaum, Shimon Ullman, and Patrick H Winston; chaired by Prof. Tomaso Poggio, recorded on Dec. 4, 2014.
Brains, Minds and Machines Series: Prof. Jun Zhang
Watch Prof. Jun Zhang's Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series talk " Reflexive Theory of Mind Reasoning in Games," taped on Dec.2, 2014, in the Singleton Auditorium, MIT.
Tomaso Poggio Receives Swartz Prize for Theoretical and Computational Neuroscience
Director of NSF-funded Center for Brains, Minds and Machines recognized for his work developing computational models of the human visual system.

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