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August 3, 2016
by Riccardo Oldani
August 1, 2016
 
Le Scienze interviewed Prof. Tomaso Poggio during the Brains, Minds and Machines Workshop held, from June 20-22, 2016, in Sestri Levante, Italy.
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Screenshot of MIT News article.
July 29, 2016
Resource could yield linguistic insights, practical applications for non-native English speakers.
Larry Hardesty | MIT News Office
July 29, 2016
"After thousands of hours of work, MIT researchers have released the first major...
June 30, 2016
from LASTAMPA TUTTOSCIENZE (Italian)
Gli studi di Poggio, uno dei padri dell’AI, al confine tra cervelli biologici e sintetici
Sappiamo più cose sulla superficie di Marte che dei meccanismi che accendono il cervello: questo grumo...
ed boyden
June 17, 2016
We would like to congratulate Ed Boyden for receiving The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine. 
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Biomedicine went to Ed as well as ...
Cover image from Special Issue: Deep Learning | Information and Inference
June 16, 2016
Special Issue Editors: F. Bach and T. Poggio
Abstract from Introduction:
"Faced with large amounts of data, the aim of machine learning is to make predictions. It applies to many types of data, such as images, sounds, biological...
MIT Campaign Feature: The Matter of Minds
May 31, 2016
“MIT’s greatest invention may be itself—an unusual concentration of unusual talent, restlessly reinventing itself on a mission to make a better world.”
MIT President L. Rafael Reif
MIT launched the "MIT Campaign for a Better...
Photograph of Prof. Josh Tenenbaum
May 9, 2016
Prof. Josh Tenenbaum has been awarded the Howard Crosby Warren Medal, from the Society of Experimental Psychologists (SEP), for his pioneering and seminal contributions to our understanding of human knowledge development and...
Photo of Prof. Shimon Ullman
May 3, 2016
Congratulations to Prof. Shimon Ullman (Weizmann Institute of Science, MIT, CBMM)  who was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS.)
Excerpt from AAAS press release, dated April 20, 2016:
"The American Academy...
Photos of Prof.  Liz Spelke and Prof. Amnon Shashua
March 25, 2016
Prof. Elzabeth Spelke, CBMM Associate Director, and Prof. Amnon Shashua, CBMM International Partner, have both been invited to be plenary speakers at CVPR 2016. The Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) is...
Group photo of the 2015 CBMM Undergraduate Summer Research Interns
March 18, 2016
CBMM offers an intensive 10-week summer research internship, in collaboration with the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences (MIT BCS), for advanced undergraduates from institutions with limited research opportunities to...

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