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June 2, 2018
By Andy Rosen Globe Staff June 02, 2018
Patrick Winston’s computer is learning about revenge, ambition, and murder. It knows that victory can make you happy. But it also knows you can’t be happy if you’re dead.
The computer had...
Patrick Winston’s computer is learning about revenge, ambition, and murder. It knows that victory can make you happy. But it also knows you can’t be happy if you’re dead.
The computer had...
May 23, 2018
Study tracks eye movement to determine how well people understand English as a foreign language.
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office
May 22, 2018
Excerpt:
A study by MIT researchers has uncovered a new way of telling how well...
Peter Dizikes | MIT News Office
May 22, 2018
Excerpt:
A study by MIT researchers has uncovered a new way of telling how well...
May 22, 2018
New evidence suggests a drop-off in results after the age of 17
The Economist
May 10, 2018
Excerpt: Those who want to learn a foreign language, or want their children to, often feel they are racing against the clock. People seem...
The Economist
May 10, 2018
Excerpt: Those who want to learn a foreign language, or want their children to, often feel they are racing against the clock. People seem...
May 2, 2018
The Cognitive Neuroscience Society (CNS) awarded Prof. Elizabeth Spelke with the 2018 George A. Miller Award during teh CNS 2018 Annual Meeting, on March 25, 2018, in Boston, MA.
The George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive...
The George A. Miller Prize in Cognitive...
May 2, 2018
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
May 1, 2018
Excerpt: A great deal of evidence suggests that it is more difficult to learn a new language as an adult than as a child, which has led scientists to propose that there is a “critical...
May 1, 2018
Excerpt: A great deal of evidence suggests that it is more difficult to learn a new language as an adult than as a child, which has led scientists to propose that there is a “critical...
April 25, 2018
MIT cognitive scientist recognized for her work on the organization of the human brain.
Julie Pryor | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
April 24, 2018
Nancy Kanwisher, the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive...
Julie Pryor | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
April 24, 2018
Nancy Kanwisher, the Walter A. Rosenblith Professor of Cognitive...
April 20, 2018
While Poggio the teacher has taught some extraordinary leaders in AI, Poggio the scientist is renowned for his theory of deep learning, presented in papers with self-explanatory names: Theory of Deep Learning I, II and III.
Those...
Those...
April 19, 2018
Neuroscientists train a deep neural network to analyze speech and music.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can...
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can...
April 6, 2018
by Shannon Fischer
Go is an ancient board game that demands not only strategy and logic, but intuition, creativity, and subtlety—in other words, it’s a game of quintessentially human abilities. Or so it seemed, until Google’s...
Go is an ancient board game that demands not only strategy and logic, but intuition, creativity, and subtlety—in other words, it’s a game of quintessentially human abilities. Or so it seemed, until Google’s...
April 6, 2018
The UNC School of Medicine has awarded the 18th Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize to Winrich Freiwald, PhD, of The Rockefeller University and Doris Y. Tsao, PhD, of the California Institute of Technology for the discovery of brain...