September 9, 2013 - 4:30 pm
A new interdisciplinary research center at MIT, funded by the National Science Foundation, aims at nothing less than unraveling the mystery of intelligence.
Read the Press Release from Larry Hardesty, MIT News Office >
September 9, 2013 - 4:30 pm
NSF awards $25 million to MIT-based center to advance brain understanding
Siri and Watson may seem brainy in certain situations, but to build truly smart, world-changing machines, researchers must understand how human intelligence emerges from brain activity.
Such an awesome challenge requires that scientists and engineers across key fields work together to learn how the brain performs complex computations, from social interactions to visual...