December 2, 2015 - 3:30 pm
Topic: "Measuring object detection performance at scale in humans and machines" (cont.)
Wed. Dec. 02, 2015, 3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: Harvard, NW-255
Brainstorming on the limitations of tasks and evaluations regarding object detection. The topic is very relevant to CBMM and the hope is to have a ...
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November 18, 2015 - 4:00 pm
Sam Gershman  
Abstract: Reinforcement learning is typically conceived of in terms of how reward predictions and choice behavior adapt based on an agent's experience. However, experience is too limited to provide the brain with the knowledge necessary for adaptive behavior in the real world. To go beyond...
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November 16, 2015 - 9:00 am
Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is now accepting application s for the  Summer 2016 Advanced Research Courses. Advanced Research Courses include the CBMM organized Brains, Minds and Machines course, which will run from August 15, 2016 to September 5, 2016, at Woods Hole, MA.   Brains, Minds and Machines Course Date: August 15 – September 5, 2016Location: Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), Woods Hole, MA.Directors: Gabriel Kreiman, Harvard...
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November 13, 2015 - 4:00 pm
Mark J. Schnitzer
Prof. Mark J. Schnitzer, Departments of Biology and Applied Physics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Stanford University
Abstract: A longstanding challenge in neuroscience is to understand how the dynamics of large populations of individual neurons contribute to animal behavior and brain disease....
Winners of the 2016 Breakthrough Prize awards in Mountain View, Calif., on Sunday evening. Credit Steve Jennings/Getty Images
November 9, 2015 - 6:45 pm
Congratulations to Prof. Edward Boyden who was one of five scientists presented with the Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences last night. Prof Boyden was honored in recognition of his scientific research, specificaly for “transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life.”   The Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences honors transformative advances toward understanding living systems and extending human life. The...
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November 4, 2015 - 4:00 pm
Josh Tenenbaum
Tomer Ullman - 1) Whether and how infants understand unified notions of mass and force (central to the question of how babies understand intuitive physics) and 2) Do children understand 'cost' in a utility calculation as related to physical effort.  
Julian Jara-Ettinger - "Costs, rewards, and...
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October 28, 2015 - 3:00 pm
Fabio Anselmi (Poggio lab, MIT and CBMM).
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October 27, 2015 - 10:15 am
Prof. Tomaso Poggio has been invited to give the keynote address, at the Festival della Scienza - Genova Italy, on Sat., Oct. 31, 2015. Unraveling the Mystery of intelligence The ambition and the limits of science   Keynote address by Tomaso Poggio Moderator: Massimo Russo   The Dartmouth Summer Research Project of 1956 is generally recognized as the birth of artificial intelligence research as a separate discipline. Then, AI pioneer...
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October 19, 2015 - 5:45 pm
Congratulations to Prof. Gabriel Kreiman who received the 2015 Pisart Award for his "remarkable contributions to the field of vision science." The Pisart Award recognizes an "early-career vision clinician or scientist whose noteworthy, innovative and scholarly contributions in vision science have the potential for substantial influence in the understanding of vision loss, treatment of eye disease or the rehabilitation of people with vision loss...
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October 9, 2015 - 12:00 pm
SfN Press Release, October 9, 2015 WASHINGTON, DC — The Society for Neuroscience (SfN) will present the Young Investigator Award to Ed Boyden, PhD, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and Nachum Ulanovksy, PhD, of the Weizmann Institute of Science. Established in 1983 and supported by AstraZeneca, the $15,000 award recognizes the outstanding achievements and contributions by a young neuroscientist who has recently received his or her...
October 7, 2015 - 4:15 pm
Tomaso Poggio
Agenda: 
(1) NIPS 2015 CBMM events
(Max Nickel): Symposium: Brains, Minds and Machines
(Tejas Kulkarni): Workshop on Black Box Learning and Inference
(Marco Cusumano-Towner): Workshop on Bounded Optimality and Rational Metareasoning
(2)  Future CBMM workshops (Turing++) (Tomaso Poggio)
(3) CBMM...
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October 7, 2015 - 3:15 pm
Wiktor Mlynarski (McDermott lab, MIT and CBMM).
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October 5, 2015 - 4:30 pm
Prof. Sam Gershman (CBMM, Harvard) and Prof Noah Goodman (CBMM, Stanford) are helping organize the Bounded Optimality and Rational Metareasoning NIPS 2015 workshop: We are pleased to announce a NIPS workshop on Bounded Optimality and Rational Metareasoning, which will take place on December 11, 2015, in Montreal, Canada. This workshop brings together computer scientists working on bounded optimality and metareasoning with psychologists and...

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