Tom M. Mitchell: E. Fredkin University Professor and Chair of the Machine Learning Department School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
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...
Dr. Christof Koch, Chief Scientific Officer - Allen Institute for Brain Science
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...
Prof. Shimon Ullman
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...
September 16, 2014 - 3:00 pm
Open to: CBMM postdocs, CBMM graduate students
Agenda:
Co-organizing the CBMM meetings
Topics for CBMM Postdoc Meetings
CBMM
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...
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:...
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.
Engineering and Reverse Engineering Reinforcement Learning
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...
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....
Portrait by Leonard Greco
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...
Summer Course at MBL, Woods Hole: Brains, Minds and Machines
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...
Visual-object processing culminates in inferior temporal cortex (IT)
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...
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.
CBMM Investigator, Ed Boyden’s newest research: Illuminating neuron activity in 3-D
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....

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