March 5, 2014 - 5:00 pm
“So there is this enormous mystery waiting to be unlocked, and the BRAIN Initiative will change that by giving scientists the tools they need to get a dynamic picture of the brain in action and better understand how we think and how we learn and how we remember. And that knowledge could be — will be –transformative.”
- President Barack Obama, April 2013
Following the President’s Briefing on the budget, the White House posted a...
February 28, 2014 - 4:00 pm
Progress on the CBMM challenge questions: what is there? and who is there?
Title: The origin and development of uniquely human geometric intelligence
Presenters: Moira Dillon, Elizabeth Spelke
Collaborators: L Mahadevan, Josh Tenenbaum; CBMM Thrust 1 – Development of Intelligence
Abstract: In the...
Title: The origin and development of uniquely human geometric intelligence
Presenters: Moira Dillon, Elizabeth Spelke
Collaborators: L Mahadevan, Josh Tenenbaum; CBMM Thrust 1 – Development of Intelligence
Abstract: In the...
February 21, 2014 - 3:00 pm
MIT: McGovern Institute Seminar Room, 46-5193
Agenda:
Continue with short presentations by Jed, Andrie and Georgios about research topics and potential collaborations.
February 18, 2014 - 9:00 am
Course organized by the POLITECMED cluster of Companies and Research Institutions in collaboration with the Dipartimento di Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei Sistemi (DIBRIS), Center for Brain Minds and Machines (CBMM), and with the contribution of the European Regional...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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”...
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:...
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
Presentation: “Developing Complex Visual Concepts from Unlabeled Natural Videos” by Daniel Harari
December 6, 2013 - 4:00 pm
The Center for Brain Science (CBS) has kindly invited all CBMM participants to their Holiday Party.