October 7, 2016 - 4:00 pm
Pedro Tsividis and Josh Tenenbaum
NOTE - *Please bring a laptop, as this will be a participatory session. We will actually be playing video games for much of it. We encourage everyone to bring their laptop and actively participate.*
October 7, 2016 - 3:00 pm
Topic: Public outreach and science communication events and partnerships.
Agenda: Part of CBMM's education and knowledge transfer components are public outreach or science communication. Ellen Hildreth, CBMM coordinator for Education, will join us to discuss th If there is time, we will also go...
Agenda: Part of CBMM's education and knowledge transfer components are public outreach or science communication. Ellen Hildreth, CBMM coordinator for Education, will join us to discuss th If there is time, we will also go...
October 4, 2016 - 12:45 am
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 Pioneer Award supports individual scientists of "exceptional creativity, who propose pioneering and transforming approaches to major challenges in biomedical and behavioral research."
September 23, 2016 - 4:00 pm
Topic: CBMM and CBMM postdoc organizational
September 19, 2016 - 4:00 pm
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 past fifty years, researchers have developed a series of quantitative models that are increasingly faithful to the biological architecture. Recently, deep learning convolution networks—which do not reflect several...
September 16, 2016 - 4:00 pm
Tomaso Poggio
Topic: CBMM state and updates
- State of CBMM (Tomaso Poggio)
- BMM summer school recap (Gemma Roig)
- Engineering of Intelligence Teams (Greg Hale)
- Technology and resources for CBMM (Kris Brewer)
- NSF renewal proposal updates (Kathleen Sullivan)
- Upcoming meetings
- State of CBMM (Tomaso Poggio)
- BMM summer school recap (Gemma Roig)
- Engineering of Intelligence Teams (Greg Hale)
- Technology and resources for CBMM (Kris Brewer)
- NSF renewal proposal updates (Kathleen Sullivan)
- Upcoming meetings
September 9, 2016 - 3:00 pm
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 computers, has created a system for machine-generated speech that it says outperforms existing technology by 50 percent.
U.K.-based DeepMind, which Google acquired for about 400 million pounds ($533 million) in 2014, developed...
September 8, 2016 - 12:30 pm
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
September 8, 2016
Excerpt:
“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 for Brain Research and a junior fellow of the Harvard Society of Fellows. “What we were looking for are hubs in the brain where your memories for the panoramic environment are integrated with your current field of view....
September 6, 2016 - 2:45 pm
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 of Computer Vision research. It is intended as a resource to the S&T community including the broader federal funding community, federal laboratories, domestic industrial base, and academia.
"Over the past century,...
August 31, 2016 - 10:00 am
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 study how activity of a brain region called the hippocampus — which is critical for spatial memories and memories of specific events — relates to memory formation and problem solving. In a new paper released today in the...
August 23, 2016 - 9:45 am
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 language: English spoken by non-native speakers. It comes in the form of a database called the Treebank of Learner English that catalogues all the grammatical idiosyncrasies found in 5,000 English-language sentences written...
August 15, 2016 - 9:00 am
Brains, Minds and Machines
The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Course Dates: August 15 - September 5, 2016
Application deadline: March 14, 2016
See Course websites for schedule and course details: https://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2016
Directors: Gabriel Kreiman, Children’s Hospital,...
The Marine Biological Laboratory, Woods Hole, MA
Course Dates: August 15 - September 5, 2016
Application deadline: March 14, 2016
See Course websites for schedule and course details: https://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2016
Directors: Gabriel Kreiman, Children’s Hospital,...
August 5, 2016 - 11:45 am
MIT Bldg. 46 atrium
Dear CBMM and MIT BCS Communities,
You are invited to attend a poster session on Friday Aug 5 from 11:45 to 2 PM to celebrate the end of the CBMM - MIT BCS joint summer program.
24 very talented and hard working summer students, who have worked in over 22 CBMM & MIT BCS laboratories this summer...
You are invited to attend a poster session on Friday Aug 5 from 11:45 to 2 PM to celebrate the end of the CBMM - MIT BCS joint summer program.
24 very talented and hard working summer students, who have worked in over 22 CBMM & MIT BCS laboratories this summer...
August 3, 2016 - 10:00 am
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.
Click on image to read pdf of article. Please note that the article s written in Italian.
July 29, 2016 - 1:30 pm
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 database of fully annotated English sentences written by non-native speakers.
The researchers who led the project had already shown that the grammatical quirks of non-native speakers writing in English could be a source of...