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Cover of Il Venerdi di Repubblica, May 22, 2015
May 22, 2015
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Article is in italian.
Tomaso Poggio on OVO
May 5, 2015
Prof. Tomaso Poggio interviewed by OVO Italia. This interview of Prof. Poggio is in Italian, but a summary in English is on the Ovo website, below the video.
March 9, 2015
A compilation of abstracts from the student projects of the 2014 Brains, Minds, and Machines Summer Course has been published online as CBMM Memo 024.
The inaugural Center for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM) Summer Course was...
Potrait of Prof. Shimon Ullman
March 2, 2015
Prof. Shimon Ullman was awarded the 2015 Israel Prize in Mathematics and Computer Science Research. The Israel Prize committee cited Ullman for his “far-reaching contributions to artificial intelligence and general cognition, and...
Graphic of brain and video game characters.
February 25, 2015
DeepMind computer provides new way to investigate how the brain works.
By Elizabeth Gibney
 
CBMM Partner - DeepMind's research is the focus of a recent Nature article. The online article includes a video featuring interviews...
Future of Life Institute
February 5, 2015
Initial proposals (300–1000 words) due March 1, 2015
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...
“Dahlia” by Katinka Matson | www.katinkamatson.com
January 21, 2015

The Edge Foundation poses an annual questions to researchers and intellectuals. The Edge Question 2015 is “WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT MACHINES THAT THINK?”
CBMM Director Tomaso Poggio is one of the 191 contributors to have his...
An image of neurons in a mouse hippocampus taken with expansion microscopy. Credit Ed Boyden, Fei Chen, Paul Tillberg/MIT
January 19, 2015
Today’s New York Times article covers Prof. Ed Boyden’s new Expansion Microscopy research:
Expansion Microscopy Stretches Limits of Conventional Microscopes
by John Markoff
New York Times
“A new laboratory technique enables...
Boyden, E., Chen, F. & Tillberg, P. / MIT / Courtesy of National Institutes of Health A slice of a mouse brain (left) was expanded by nearly five-fold in each dimension by adding a water-soaking salt. The result — shown at smaller magnification (right) for comparison — has its anatomical structures are essentially unchanged.
January 15, 2015
by Ewen Callaway
Nature, Vol. 517, 254,
online January 09, 2015
January 15, 2015
doi:10.1038/nature.2015.16667
 
A recent article in Nature covers the Boyden Lab ExM research as presented by Prof. Ed  Boyden at SfN 2014:
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