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....
CBMM Investigator Dr. Gabriel Kreiman’s research is the focus of a new MIT Technology Review article
June 17, 2014 - 5:00 pm
Searching for the “Free Will” Neuron
Gabriel Kreiman’s single-neuron measurements of unconscious decision-making may not topple Descartes, but they could someday point to ways we can learn to control ourselves.
By David Talbot on June 17, 2014
“A variety of imaging studies in humans have revealed that brain activity related to decision-making tends to precede conscious action. Implants in macaques and other animals have examined brain circuits...
June 8, 2014 - 9:00 am
MIT
The CBMM offers an intensive 10-week summer research internship for advanced undergraduates from our partner institutions and other institutions with limited research opportunities to introduce women, students from under-represented minority groups, first-generation college students, students with...
May 29, 2014 - 4:00 am
This intensive two-week course will give advanced students a “deep end” introduction to the problem of intelligence – how the brain produces intelligent behavior and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. Today’s AI technologies, such as Watson and Siri, are impressive, but their...
May 23, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Prof. Bevil Conway, Wellesley
Topic: Progress on CBMM Challenge
Abstract:
To assess the organization of IT, we measured functional magnetic resonance imaging responses in alert monkeys to achromatic images (faces, fruit, bodies and places) and colored gratings. IT contained multiple color-biased regions, which were...
Abstract:
To assess the organization of IT, we measured functional magnetic resonance imaging responses in alert monkeys to achromatic images (faces, fruit, bodies and places) and colored gratings. IT contained multiple color-biased regions, which were...
May 23, 2014 - 3:00 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute 46-4062
CBMM Postdoc Group meeting will be hosted at MIT this week. Meet at 3pm, just prior to the weekly CBMM research meeting in 46-4062.
May 19, 2014 - 5:00 pm
CBMM Investigator Ed Boyden is in the news: Featured on the NSF Homepage and MIT News.
“Researchers at MIT and the University of Vienna have created an imaging system that reveals neural activity throughout the brains of living animals. This technique, the first that can generate 3-D movies of entire brains at the millisecond timescale, could help scientists discover how neuronal networks process sensory information and generate behavior....
May 16, 2014 - 4:00 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Singleton Auditorium, 46-3002
Alan L. Yuille, Professor & Investigator, UCLA
Topic: Progress on CBMM Challenge
Abstract:
We continue the series of weekly discussions and reports on each CBMM challenge question describing progress and problems of ongoing work at CBMM.
Thrust 5 is focused on models for the CBMM challenge that can answer CBMM challenge questions while being...
Abstract:
We continue the series of weekly discussions and reports on each CBMM challenge question describing progress and problems of ongoing work at CBMM.
Thrust 5 is focused on models for the CBMM challenge that can answer CBMM challenge questions while being...
May 16, 2014 - 3:00 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Seminar Room, 46-5193
Meeting Notes:
Extend the CBMM postdoc group meetings to include also CBMM graduate students. The consensus was that CBMM graduate students are welcome to attend the meetings. The general agenda of the group meetings will still focus mainly on postdoc-related interests such as research activities,...
Extend the CBMM postdoc group meetings to include also CBMM graduate students. The consensus was that CBMM graduate students are welcome to attend the meetings. The general agenda of the group meetings will still focus mainly on postdoc-related interests such as research activities,...
May 15, 2014 - 5:00 pm
With the goal of creating interactive dialog and building collaborations, researchers from the GE-Analytics lab and CBMM researchers met to discuss projects related to visual intelligence, image analysis, knowledge modeling, and neuroscience.
The program started with an overview presentation about CBMM by Matt Wilson, Associate Director, and from GE by Rahul Bhotika. In the afternoon, GE and CBMM researchers presented their work to smaller...
May 9, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Ben Deen
Collaborator: Nancy Kanwisher, Rebecca Saxe; CBMM Thrust 4 – Social Intelligence
Progress of CBMM Challenge – Social Intelligence
Abstract:
The central aim of Thrust 4 is to understand nonverbal social perception, or the ability to make high-level social inferences from perceptual information, in...
Progress of CBMM Challenge – Social Intelligence
Abstract:
The central aim of Thrust 4 is to understand nonverbal social perception, or the ability to make high-level social inferences from perceptual information, in...
May 2, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Harvard University: Northwest Bldg, Room 243
Noah Goodman; CBMM Thrust 1 – Development of Intelligence
Progress on the CBMM Challenge Questions: What is there? and Who is there?
Abstract:
Thrust 1 presents this week episode in our series of weekly discussions on progress on the CBMM challenge questions. The thrust is focused on the development of intelligence and on how to model it. It is therefore...
Abstract:
Thrust 1 presents this week episode in our series of weekly discussions on progress on the CBMM challenge questions. The thrust is focused on the development of intelligence and on how to model it. It is therefore...
April 30, 2014 - 5:30 pm
Bloomberg Distinguished Professorship
in Computational Cognitive Science
Joint Search by the Johns Hopkins University
School of Arts and Sciences and School of Engineering
The Johns Hopkins University seeks an internationally recognized leader as a tenured, endowed Bloomberg Distinguished Professor in the area of computational cognitive science. We seek an individual whose research agenda in computation and cognition will...