October 14, 2014 - 3:15 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Seminar Room, 46-5193
Agenda: TBD
October 10, 2014 - 5:15 pm
by JAMES GORMAN
September 30, 2014
The New York Times today covered the White House’s continuing commitment to and update on the Brain Initiative:
“The Obama administration plans to announce Tuesday that it has recruited new federal agencies and a number of universities, foundations and businesses to help pursue the goals of the Brain Initiative, which the president started in 2013.
Tom Kalil, deputy director for technology and...
October 7, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Dr. Carlo Ciliberto, LCSL MIT
CBMM Thrust 5 – Theories for Intelligence
For more information regarding the iCub, please visit http://www.icub.org/
For more information regarding the iCub, please visit http://www.icub.org/
October 7, 2014 - 3:15 pm
Agenda:
Organizing the IBM visit event
Arranging the forthcoming CBMM Thrust talks.
Organizing the IBM visit event
Arranging the forthcoming CBMM Thrust talks.
October 3, 2014 - 5:15 pm
A neural portrait of the human mind.
TED2014, Filmed Mar 2014
Brain imaging pioneer Nancy Kanwisher, who uses fMRI scans to see activity in brain regions (often her own), shares what she and her colleagues have learned: The brain is made up of both highly specialized components and general-purpose “machinery.” Another surprise: There’s so much left to learn.
Click here to see video on TED2014 website >
October 3, 2014 - 5:15 pm
Prof. Nancy Kanwisher has created a great website, entitled “Nancy’s Brain Talks“, with short educational videos demonstrating a variety of scientific methods employed by neuroscientists.
Videos cover a wide array of topics, including:
What Kinds of Minds and Brains Do We Have?
How Can You Study the Human Mind and Brain
Face Perception
fMRI: Imaging of the Human Brain at Work
Viewers do not need any background in neuroscience to understand the...
September 30, 2014 - 4:00 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Singleton Auditorium, 46-3002
Tom M. Mitchell: E. Fredkin University Professor and Chair of the Machine Learning Department, School of...
Abstract:
How does the human brain use neural activity to create and represent meanings of words, sentences and stories? One way to study this question is to give people text to read, while scanning their brain, then develop machine learning methods to discover the mapping between language...
How does the human brain use neural activity to create and represent meanings of words, sentences and stories? One way to study this question is to give people text to read, while scanning their brain, then develop machine learning methods to discover the mapping between language...
September 23, 2014 - 4:00 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Singleton Auditorium, 46-3002
Dr. Christof Koch, Chief Scientific Officer - Allen Institute for Brain Science
Abstract:
The science of consciousness has made great strides by focusing on the behavioral and neuronal correlates of experience. However, such correlates are not enough if we are to understand even basic facts, for example, why the cerebral cortex gives rise to consciousness but the cerebellum...
The science of consciousness has made great strides by focusing on the behavioral and neuronal correlates of experience. However, such correlates are not enough if we are to understand even basic facts, for example, why the cerebral cortex gives rise to consciousness but the cerebellum...
September 16, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Prof. Shimon Ullman
Abstract:
The human visual system makes highly effective use of limited information: it can recognize not only objects, but severely reduced sub-configurations in terms of size or resolution. Minimal images are useful for the interpretation of complex scenes but they are also challenging because by...
The human visual system makes highly effective use of limited information: it can recognize not only objects, but severely reduced sub-configurations in terms of size or resolution. Minimal images are useful for the interpretation of complex scenes but they are also challenging because by...
September 16, 2014 - 3:00 pm
Open to: CBMM postdocs, CBMM graduate students
Agenda:
Co-organizing the CBMM meetings
Topics for CBMM Postdoc Meetings
Agenda:
Co-organizing the CBMM meetings
Topics for CBMM Postdoc Meetings
September 9, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Meeting Notes:
Admin
● New (?) members
● 25 postdocs (affiliated or participating)
○ announce in labs/PIs
● Mailing List
● Separate grad student list (use both lists for postdoc meetings)
● Meetings: 1 meeting every 3 weeks (MIT or Harvard)
Topics
● Organization for this year (Content)
● Role of...
Admin
● New (?) members
● 25 postdocs (affiliated or participating)
○ announce in labs/PIs
● Mailing List
● Separate grad student list (use both lists for postdoc meetings)
● Meetings: 1 meeting every 3 weeks (MIT or Harvard)
Topics
● Organization for this year (Content)
● Role of...
September 9, 2014 - 3:00 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Seminar Room, 46-5193
The 2014-2015 CBMM postdoc meetings will resume this Tuesday at MIT. The meeting schedule will be similar to last year’s: there will one meeting every three weeks, aligned with the regular CBMM weekly research meetings, and with the meeting location alternating between MIT and Harvard.
Open to:...
Open to:...
August 28, 2014 - 9:00 am
Woods Hole
CBMM Research Thrust Leaders will discuss continuing and new projects for NSF STC Award Year 2.
This meeting is by invitation only.
This meeting is by invitation only.
July 18, 2014 - 10:00 am
MIT: McGovern Institute Singleton Auditorium, 46-3002
Summary: Psychologists and neuroscientists routinely borrow ideas from machine learning to understand and model reinforcement learning in humans and animals. Likewise, ideas from psychology and neuroscience filter into machine learning in a variety of ways. The goal of the workshop is to highlight...
Regularization Methods for Machine Learning – RegML 2014, June 30, 2014 – July 4, 2104, Genoa, Italy
June 30, 2014 - 9:00 am
CBMM Partners the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT) and the University of Genova are organizing a machine learning course this summer in Genoa, Italy.
Regularization Methods for Machine Learning (RegML)
Instructors: Francesca Odone (francesca.odone [at] unige.it ); Lorenzo Rosasco (lorenzo....