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Jun 15, 2021
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June 16, 2021
Part of
All Captioned Videos, CBMM Special Seminars
CBMM Speaker(s):
Guangyu Robert Yang
Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) trained with machine learning techniques on cognitive tasks have become a widely accepted tool for neuroscientists. In comparison to traditional computational models in neuroscience, RNNs can offer substantial...
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Jun 8, 2021
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June 9, 2021
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All Captioned Videos, CBMM Special Seminars
Speaker(s):
Robert Nowak
Prof. Robert D. Nowak, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Abstract: This talk presents a variational framework to understand the properties of functions learned by neural networks fit to data. The framework is based on total variation semi-norms...
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May 11, 2021
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May 12, 2021
Part of
All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
Speaker(s):
Earl K. Miller
Prof. Earl K. Miller, Picower Institute for Learning and Memory, BCS Dept., MIT
Abstract: Working memory is the sketchpad of consciousness, the fundamental mechanism the brain uses to gain volitional control over its thoughts and actions. For the...
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May 4, 2021
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May 5, 2021
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
CBMM Speaker(s):
Alan L. Yuille
Current AI visual algorithms are very limited compared to the robustness and flexibility of the human visual system. These limitations, however, are often obscured by the standard performance measures (SPMs) used to evaluate vision algorithms which...
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Apr 13, 2021
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April 16, 2021
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All Captioned Videos, CBMM Special Seminars
CBMM Speaker(s):
Joshua Tenenbaum, Samuel Gershman
Speaker(s):
Talia Konkle, Ila Fiete
Panelists: Profs. Talia Konkle (Harvard), Josh Tenenbaum (MIT), and Sam Gershman (Harvard)
Moderator: Prof. Ila Fiete (MIT
Moderator: Prof. Ila Fiete (MIT
Recorded:
Apr 8, 2021
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April 9, 2021
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All Captioned Videos, Computational Tutorials
Speaker(s):
Jesse Marshall, Harvard University
Mechanistic studies of complex, ethological animal behaviors are poised to define the next decade of neuroscience. Fully understanding the ontogeny, evolution, and neural basis of these behaviors requires precise 3D measurements of their underlying...
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Mar 16, 2021
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March 23, 2021
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All Captioned Videos, CBMM Research
CBMM Speaker(s):
R.T. Pramod
Successful engagement with the world requires the ability to predict what will happen next. Although some of our predictions are related to social situations concerning other people and what they will think and do, many of our predictions concern...
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Mar 10, 2021
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March 9, 2021
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All Captioned Videos, CBMM Special Seminars
CBMM Speaker(s):
Tomaso Poggio, Kenneth Blum
Speaker(s):
Christos Papadimitriou, Santosh Vempala
Panelists: Profs. Christos Papadimitriou (Columbia), Tomaso A. Poggio (CBMM, MIT) and Santosh Vempala (Georgia Tech)
Moderator: Kenneth Blum Abstract: About fifty years ago, holography was proposed as a model of associative memory. Associative...
Moderator: Kenneth Blum Abstract: About fifty years ago, holography was proposed as a model of associative memory. Associative...
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Mar 2, 2021
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March 3, 2021
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
Speaker(s):
Prof. Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London / Google DeepMind
The challenge of endowing computers with common sense remains one of the major obstacles to achieving the sort of general artificial intelligence envisioned by the field’s founders. A large part of human common sense pertains to the physics of the...
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Feb 23, 2021
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February 24, 2021
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All Captioned Videos, Brains, Minds and Machines Seminar Series
Speaker(s):
Santosh Vempala, Georgia Tech
Prof. Santosh Vempala, Georgia Tech
Abstract: Despite great advances in ML, and in our understanding of the brain at the level of neurons, synapses, and neural circuits, we still have no satisfactory explanation for the brain's performance in...