February 14, 2014 - 4:30 pm
Topic: Progress on the CBMM challenge questions: what is there?  and who is there?
Presenters: Camille Gomez and/or Gabriel Kreiman (work with Rick Born and JoJo Nassi).
Abstract:
In the Jeopardy/Watson effort  every week on Friday there was an evaluation of performance. We begin here a series of...
February 14, 2014 - 3:30 pm
Agenda:
Research projects we all work on and possible collaborations that we could form with each other.
February 10, 2014 - 4:00 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Reading Room, 46-5165
Agenda:
Organizational meeting in order to start the activities of the group.
Notes:
Toggle meetings location between MIT and Harvard (preferably just before the CBMM meetings)
Meet regularly every two or three weeks (possibly more often during the first couple of months)
Focus on both scientific...
February 7, 2014 - 4:30 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Reading Room, 46-5165

Presentation: Research Thrust 2 – Circuits for Intelligence: Datasets and Metrics for the CBMM Challenge
Speakers: Prof. Gabriel Kreiman, Leyla Isik and Andrea Tacchetti
Abstract:
The performance of humans, computational models, or a population of neurons on a given task can be measured by single...
Microsoft Research - Cambridge
February 6, 2014 - 5:00 pm
CBMM doctoral students are encouraged to apply for an internship with industrial partner – Microsoft Research, Cambridge UK. Deadline of Feb 28th.Click here for online application. Microsoft Research suggests that applicants chose a MSR Researcher to work with, make contact with that researcher and enter list the researcher as “MSR contact” on the application. Please email advise Kathleen Sullivan kdsulliv [at] mit.edu when you’re application...
Festival delle Scienze 2014: Dr. Tomaso Poggio’s talk is available online
January 30, 2014 - 5:00 pm
Tomaso Poggio, Director of CBMM, participated in a panel discussion entitled “Il linguaggio degli umani e quello delle macchine -  Human language and machine language”, as part of the Rome Science Festival 2014. Dr. Poggio’s talk included an overview of the Center’s vision and goals.   Il linguaggio degli umani e quello delle macchine Sunday, January 26, 2014, Sala Petrassi Introduction: Vittorio Bo (in Italian) Talks: Stuart Shieber...
January 30, 2014 - 5:00 pm
Two of the Center’s industrial partners have been in the news this week. Congratulations to Demis Hassabis on the recent acquisition of DeepMind by Google.   Links to some of the recent articles: Google buys UK artificial intelligence startup Deepmind for £400m Google makes its biggest EU purchase yet with the technology that aims to make computers think like humans by Samuel Gibbs, The Guardian, January 27, 2014  Read full...
January 10, 2014 - 4:45 pm
Brains, Minds and Machines
A Special Topics Course at MBL, Woods Hole, MA
Directors: L. Mahadevan, Harvard University; and Tomaso Poggio, MI
Course Date: May 29 – June 12, 2014
Application Deadline: February 14, 2014
This intensive two-week course will give advanced students a “deep end”...
January 8, 2014 - 9:00 am
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT
Free
Registration by invitation only
Agenda:
Wednesday:
Participants arrive in Cambridge
5:30-7:30 PM, Room 46-3015

Introductions:
Welcoming remarks: Tommy Poggio
Overview: Mandana Sassanfar
Research presentation: Ed Boyden

Thursday:     EDUCATION PROGRAMS – Moderator: Ellen Hildreth
Morning: 9:...
December 13, 2013 - 4:30 pm
Host: Prof. Gabriel Kreiman
Presentation: “Developing Complex Visual Concepts from Unlabeled Natural Videos” by Daniel Harari
CBS Holiday Party
December 6, 2013 - 4:00 pm
The Center for Brain Science (CBS) has kindly invited all CBMM participants to their Holiday Party.
November 22, 2013 - 9:00 am
McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Bldg. 46)

The workshop “Learning Data Representation: Hierarchies and Invariance” was held at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT (Bldg. 46), from November 22-24, 2013.
The goal of the meeting is to investigate advances and challenges in learning “good representations” from data, in particular...
Workshop on Learning Data Representation: Hierarchies and Invariance
November 22, 2013 - 5:00 am

The goal of the meeting is to investigate advances and challenges in learning “good representations” from data, in particular representations that can reduce the complexity of later supervised learning stages. The meeting will gather experts in the field to discuss current and future challenges...
November 15, 2013 - 4:30 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Reading Room, 46-5165
Agenda
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Presentation: Lorenzo Rosasco and Josh Tenenbaum will guide a discussion on “learning with n –>1″
November 8, 2013 - 4:30 pm
Harvard University: Northwest Bldg, Room 243
There will be a presentation on the Research Thrust 5 “Theories for Intelligence.”
T. Poggio:
Thrust 5:  Theory is the common language between thrusts but it is not a goal in itself.  The CBMM challenge question what is there and m-theory
Theory: Invariances reduce sample complexity
Algorithm: how...

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