April 25, 2014 - 11:00 am
The CBMM Postdoc Group meeting will be hosted at MIT. This week we will have a special event and collaborate with members of the GE-Analytics Team.
Summary:
Special collaboration meeting with researchers from GE Analytics.
There were 38 participants, 9 from GE and 29 CBMM postdocs, grad-students...
Summary:
Special collaboration meeting with researchers from GE Analytics.
There were 38 participants, 9 from GE and 29 CBMM postdocs, grad-students...
April 22, 2014 - 4:00 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Singleton Auditorium, 46-3002
Gary Marcus, Professor of Psychology at NYU and Visiting Cognitive Scientist at the Allen Institute for Brain..., Adam Marblestone, Harvard University and Tom Dean, Google
Abstract:
The human neocortex participates in a wide range of tasks, yet superficially appears to adhere to a relatively uniform six-layered architecture throughout its extent. For that reason, much research has been devoted to characterizing a single “canonical” cortical...
The human neocortex participates in a wide range of tasks, yet superficially appears to adhere to a relatively uniform six-layered architecture throughout its extent. For that reason, much research has been devoted to characterizing a single “canonical” cortical...
April 18, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Winrich Freiwald and Joel Z. Leibo; CBMM Thrust 5 – Theories for Intelligence
Title: On the neural mechanisms of face recognition: from experiments to theory
Abstract:
Object recognition, the ability to identify an object despite vast changes in appearance due to changes in lighting or orientation, is a major accomplishment of the primate brain, as a result of which we can...
Abstract:
Object recognition, the ability to identify an object despite vast changes in appearance due to changes in lighting or orientation, is a major accomplishment of the primate brain, as a result of which we can...
April 11, 2014 - 5:15 pm
CBMM is delighted to announce an industrial alliance with GE Software’s labs for advanced research.
At the heart of the Industrial Internet is the integration of analytics, intelligence, sensors and data with machines. And GE’s focus on predictive analytics is driving a more connected world of intelligent machines that can predict and prevent events – delivering outcomes that matter for customers, industries, and people with cleaner energy...
April 11, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Dr. Michael Buice, Allen Institute for Brain Science, CBMM Thrust 2: Circuits for Intelligence and Thrust 5:...
Progress on the CBMM challenge questions: What/Who is there?
Abstract:
In the Jeopardy/Watson effort every week on Friday there was an evaluation of performance. We continue the series of weekly discussions and reports on each CBMM challenge question [e.g. What is there? What will happen next? What...
Abstract:
In the Jeopardy/Watson effort every week on Friday there was an evaluation of performance. We continue the series of weekly discussions and reports on each CBMM challenge question [e.g. What is there? What will happen next? What...
April 4, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Tomaso Poggio and Jim Mutch; CBMM Thrust 5 – Theories for Intelligence
Progress of CBMM Challenge – Enabling Theory
Abstract:
We continue the series of weekly discussions and reports on each CBMM challenge question [e.g. What is there? What will happen next? What are they doing? etc.] describing progress and problems of ongoing work at CBMM.
This Friday we will speak...
Abstract:
We continue the series of weekly discussions and reports on each CBMM challenge question [e.g. What is there? What will happen next? What are they doing? etc.] describing progress and problems of ongoing work at CBMM.
This Friday we will speak...
March 28, 2014 - 5:15 pm
CBMM is delighted to announce an industrial partnership with Schlumberger Limited, the world leader in oil-field exploration services. The goal of this partnership is to further knowledge in aspects of machine learning, artificial intelligence and related fields as it relates to the solution of complex engineering problems such as those in the area of oil exploration.
Tarek Habashy, Director of Schlumberger Research – Boston recently...
March 21, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Andrei Barbu and Daniel Harari; CBMM Thrust 3 – Visual Intelligence
Progress on the CBMM challenge questions: What is there? and Who is there?
Title: Thrust 3: Vision and language
Abstract: A fundamental human ability is to communicate with others about what we are perceiving and to change our understanding of the world when others are communicating with us. To...
Title: Thrust 3: Vision and language
Abstract: A fundamental human ability is to communicate with others about what we are perceiving and to change our understanding of the world when others are communicating with us. To...
March 21, 2014 - 3:00 pm
Fabio Anselmi
Agenda:
Topic: I-theory and its application to image representation yielding with invariance to rotation, translation and scale – a common human visual capability.
Topic: I-theory and its application to image representation yielding with invariance to rotation, translation and scale – a common human visual capability.
March 14, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Greg Hale, Hector Penagos and Zhe Chen; CBMM Thrust 2 – Circuits for Intelligence
Progress on the CBMM challenge questions: Where did I come from? Where am I going?
Abstract: In the Jeopardy/Watson effort every week on Friday there was an evaluation of performance. We continue the series of weekly discussions and reports on each CBMM challenge question [e.g. what is there? what...
Abstract: In the Jeopardy/Watson effort every week on Friday there was an evaluation of performance. We continue the series of weekly discussions and reports on each CBMM challenge question [e.g. what is there? what...
March 14, 2014 - 3:00 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Seminar Room, 46-5193
Agenda:
Continue with short presentations of research topics and potential collaborations.
Summary:
Discussed some administrative issues related to the effectiveness evaluation of the postdoc group activities and meetings.
Jed Singer talked about his recent work on ECOG recordings from...
Continue with short presentations of research topics and potential collaborations.
Summary:
Discussed some administrative issues related to the effectiveness evaluation of the postdoc group activities and meetings.
Jed Singer talked about his recent work on ECOG recordings from...
March 10, 2014 - 5:15 pm
Long before the Internet, AI Memos were written at MIT by the pioneering people who were creating the new field of Artificial Intelligence at MIT. They were read by their local colleagues and by collaborators at Stanford, CMU, and other laboratories worldwide.
As soon as I (Tomaso) arrived to the US, I started to write AI memos, The first (in ’76) was the first version of the “level manifesto” (AI memo 357 by D. Marr and T. Poggio by the title “...
March 6, 2014 - 5:00 pm
The CBMM postdoc group (announced on December 12, 2013) is part of a mentoring plan aimed to provide postdoctoral researches supported by the center, a flexible framework for professional and career development. This plan includes both structured and informal mentoring activities, career planning assistance, and opportunities to learn valuable career skills such as grant writing, teaching, networking and communication. We will follow good...
March 6, 2014 - 11:45 am
Alexander V. Terekhov, Postdoc, Institute for Intelligent Systems and Robotics, Paris Descartes University (...
Abstract:
The brain sitting inside its bony cavity sends and receives myriads of sensory inputs and outputs. A problem that must be solved either in ontogeny or phylogeny is how to extract the particular characteristics within this “blooming buzzing confusion” that signal the existence and nature...
The brain sitting inside its bony cavity sends and receives myriads of sensory inputs and outputs. A problem that must be solved either in ontogeny or phylogeny is how to extract the particular characteristics within this “blooming buzzing confusion” that signal the existence and nature...