Recorded:
Feb 8, 2018
Uploaded:
May 16, 2018
CBMM Speaker(s):
Joshua Tenenbaum
This is a talk by Josh Tenenbaum for course 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence. This class is free and open to everyone. Our goal is to take an engineering approach to exploring possible paths toward building human-level intelligence for a...
Recorded:
Apr 19, 2018
Uploaded:
May 9, 2018
Part of
Computational Tutorials
CBMM Speaker(s):
Emily Mackevicius
Speaker(s):
Andrew Bahle
Emily Mackevicius, Andrew Bahle - MIT
The ability to identify interpretable, low-dimensional features that capture the dynamics of large-scale neural recordings is a major challenge in neuroscience. Dynamics that include repeated temporal patterns (...
Recorded:
Mar 29, 2018
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April 24, 2018
Speaker(s):
Emma Kowal
Emma Kowal, MIT
One of the biggest surprises in molecular biology was that genes in eukaryotic genomes are organized in pieces, and that some pieces, called introns, need to be removed from the gene transcript before protein can be made. In this...
Recorded:
Apr 18, 2018
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April 24, 2018
Part of
Scientific Interviews
CBMM Speaker(s):
Tomaso Poggio
Speaker(s):
Mikhail Belkin
On April 18, 2018, CBMM Director Tomaso Poggio had the opportunity to sit down and chat briefly with Prof. Mikhail Belkin of Ohio State University.
Recorded:
Apr 18, 2018
Uploaded:
April 19, 2018
Part of
All Captioned Videos, CBMM Special Seminars
Speaker(s):
Mikhail Belkin, Ohio State University
Abstract:
A striking feature of modern supervised machine learning is its pervasive over-parametrization. Deep networks contain millions of parameters, often exceeding the number of data points by orders of magnitude. These networks are trained to...
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Apr 13, 2018
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April 13, 2018
Part of
Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
CBMM Speaker(s):
Christof Koch
Abstract:
Rapid advances in convolutional networks and other machine learning techniques, in combination with large data bases and the relentless hardware advances due to Moore’s Law, have brought us closer to the day when we will be able to have...
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Feb 16, 2018
Uploaded:
February 22, 2018
Part of
Scientific Interviews
Speaker(s):
Dr. Ann Hermundstad
On February 16, 2018, CBMM Postdoc Wiktor Mlynarski took the opportunity to sit down and chat briefly with Dr. Ann Hermundstad of the Janelia Research Campus.
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Feb 16, 2018
Uploaded:
February 16, 2018
Part of
All Captioned Videos, CBMM Special Seminars
Speaker(s):
Ann M. Hermundstad
Ann M. Hermundstad, PhD, Janelia Research Campus
Abstract: The brain exploits the statistical regularities of the natural world. In the visual system, an efficient representation of light intensity begins in retina, where statistical redundancies...
Recorded:
Feb 7, 2018
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February 13, 2018
CBMM Speaker(s):
Nancy Kanwisher
Prof. Nancy Kanwisher, MIT
For more of Nancy's short talks about the brain, go here - http://nancysbraintalks.mit.edu
This story serves as the introduction to Nancy's new course, "The Human Brain". Select lectures from her course will be appearing...
Recorded:
Dec 7, 2017
Uploaded:
January 24, 2018
CBMM Speaker(s):
Joshua Tenenbaum
Josh Tenenbaum, MIT
30 minute presentation at Kinds of intelligence: types, tests and meeting the needs of society NIPS2017 Symposium - Center (Beverley) Theater, Long Beach Convention Center, CA.