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Tomaso Poggio and team awarded the 2021 Helmholtz Prize for their paper HMDB: A large video database for human motion recognition (H. Kuehne; H. Jhuang; E. Garrote; T. Poggio; T. Serre). The paper has been cited over 1400 times with 6 patent citations.
At the nineteenth International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in knowledge-based systems (IPMU 2022), Prof. Tomaso Poggio delivered the plenary lecture on "The Science and Engineering of Intelligence."
A new computational model could explain differences in recognizing facial emotions. Kohitij Kar, a research scientist with CBMM, hoped to zero in on the answer.
CBMM’s EAC member Amnon Shahua was recently inducted into the Automotive Hall of Fame as the 2022 Mobility Innovator.
Join us on Thursday, August 4th, 2022 from 12:00pm - 3:00pm in the Building 46 3rd floor atrium to learn about and celebrate the exciting work from this year's cohort of MIT Summer Research Program students.
Co-founded by CBMM graduate student Taylor Baum, Sprouting - and educational startup directed at: building confidence; increasing student engagement; reducing lesson preparation time; and to keep innovating - hosts their first Hackathon in Puerto Rico.
Prestigious honor society announces more than 250 new members including CBMM's Michale S. Fee and Rebecca Saxe.
Dr. Kelsey Allen, MIT PhD '21 and CBMM Alumna, awarded the prestigious Glushko Dissertation Prize in cognitive sciences for her PhD thesis entitled “Learning to act with objects, relations and physics."
April 5, 2022 - 4:30 pm, MIT 26-100 and online - "[W]e are on the cusp of an exciting new era in science with AI poised to be a powerful tool for accelerating scientific discovery itself."
During Super Bowl LVI in 2022, Boston Dynamics robots and their founder and Chairman Marc Raibert are featured in a commercial.
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has announced today that Nancy Kanwisher, has received the 2022 NAS Award in the Neurosciences for her “pioneering research into the functional organization of the human brain.”
Nature Methods has named protein structure prediction the Method of the Year 2021.
New research from MIT neuroscientists suggests that natural soundscapes have shaped our sense of hearing, optimizing it for the kinds of sounds we most often encounter.
"I have no idea how that happened, but it's a thrill to share cool things about the brain with people all over the world. I am so proud of MIT for starting the online learning revolution 20 years ago with OCW!" ~Nancy Kanwisher
A new machine-learning system helps robots understand and perform certain social interactions - from CBMM research in the MIT InfoLab Group headed by Boris Katz.