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January 22, 2019
The X AI Residency application deadline has been extended from January 15, 2019 to February 11, 2019.
X AI Residency
THE AI RESIDENCY PROGRAM AT X, THE MOONSHOT FACTORY
At Alphabet (formerly Google) X, we create breakthrough...
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January 22, 2019
This is the first call for applications for the 2019 Brains, Minds and Machines summer course at MBL, Woods Hole.
Please circulate the course information among labs/colleagues/friends that might be interested. Thank you!
Brains,...
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January 16, 2019
A cooperative research group from Google, Stanford, and Johns Hopkins has proposed “Auto-DeepLab,” a new method which utilizes hierarchical Neural Architecture Search (NAS) for semantic image segmentation. The project team...
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January 1, 2019
David Siegel provides philanthropic support for MIT’s Quest for Intelligence
by Brittany Flaherty, Science writer for the MIT School of ScienceScience@MIT
November 1, 2018
When he was nine years old, David Siegel SM ’86, PhD ’91...
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January 1, 2019
Dear Friends,
The fall brings us a new academic year, many new developments, and a new issue of Science@MIT.
The biggest recent change to the campus is the completion of the MIT.nano building. This remarkable new facility—from...
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December 26, 2018
PUBLIC RELEASE: 4-DEC-2018
PICOWER INSTITUTE AT MIT
The rat in a maze may be one of the most classic research motifs in brain science, but a new innovation described in Cell Reports by an international collaboration of scientists...
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December 19, 2018
New open-source system provides fast, accurate neural decoding and real-time readouts of where rats think they are.
David Orenstein | Picower Institute for Learning and Memory
 
The rat in a maze may be one of the most classic...
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December 19, 2018
Professor honored for work on the nature and origins of intelligence in the human mind and applying that knowledge to build human-like intelligence in machines.
Sara Cody | Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences 
December 19...
December 14, 2018
Professor Lorenzo Rosasco of the Department of Computer Science, Bioengineering, Robotics and Systems Engineering (DIBRIS) has won a European Research Council (ERC consolidator) grant with the project "Efficient algorithms for...
Prof. Josh Tenenbaum
December 14, 2018
R&D Magazine is proud to announce Josh Tenenbaum, PhD, a computational cognitive scientist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as the 2018 Innovator of the Year. Tenenbaum was honored for his work studying the...

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