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December 1, 2016
Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office
December 1, 2016
"MIT researchers and their colleagues have developed a new computational model of the human brain’s face-recognition mechanism that seems to capture aspects of human neurology...
October 31, 2016
"Winrich Freiwald, associate professor and head of the Laboratory of Neural Systems, has received the 2016 W. Alden Spencer Award. The prize, given by Columbia University, recognizes outstanding research contributions in the...
October 12, 2016
CBMM is thrilled to be chosen as one of NVIDIA’s Pioneers of AI Research - NVIDIA Early Access selections. The Center has received one of the first deliveries of the groundbreaking new DGX-1 rack-mounted deep learning...
October 4, 2016
NIH anounced today that Prof. Nancy Kanwisher has received the 2016 NIH Director's Pioneer Award.
The NIH Director's Pioneer Award is on of the four awards in the NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. The...
The NIH Director's Pioneer Award is on of the four awards in the NIH Common Fund's High-Risk, High-Reward Research program. The...
September 19, 2016
Tomaso A. Poggio and Fabio Anselmi released a new book in the field of Computational Neuroscience published through The MIT Press last week.
"The ventral visual stream is believed to underlie object recognition in primates. Over...
"The ventral visual stream is believed to underlie object recognition in primates. Over...
September 9, 2016
By Jeremy Kahn for Bloomberg.com
DeepMind system generates soundwaves to mimic human voices
Performed 50 percent better than existing technology
Google’s DeepMind unit, which is working to develop super-intelligent...
September 8, 2016
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
September 8, 2016
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“Our understanding of our environment is largely shaped by our memory for what’s currently out of sight,” says Caroline Robertson, a postdoc at MIT’s McGovern Institute...
September 8, 2016
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“Our understanding of our environment is largely shaped by our memory for what’s currently out of sight,” says Caroline Robertson, a postdoc at MIT’s McGovern Institute...
September 6, 2016
The Future Directions of Visual Common Sense & Recognition: A Summation of Workshop Findings has been released for the public.
This report is the product of a workshop held November 12–13, 2015 in Arlington, VA on the future...
This report is the product of a workshop held November 12–13, 2015 in Arlington, VA on the future...
August 31, 2016
Neuroscientists decrypt the sleeping brain to reveal hidden memories.
by Joshua Sariñana
NIT News, August 30, 2016
"Researchers in the laboratory of MIT Professor Matthew Wilson at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory...
by Joshua Sariñana
NIT News, August 30, 2016
"Researchers in the laboratory of MIT Professor Matthew Wilson at the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory...
August 23, 2016
by Kevin Hartnet
The Boston Globe, August 23, 2016
Excerpt:
"At the end of July, researchers from the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT released a major new resource for the study of an often overlooked variety of...
The Boston Globe, August 23, 2016
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"At the end of July, researchers from the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines at MIT released a major new resource for the study of an often overlooked variety of...