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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2015</span></b></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="http://www.mbl.edu/education/special-topics-courses/brains-minds-and-machines/">http://www.mbl.edu/education/special-topics-courses/brains-minds-and-machines/</a></span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">When:              August 13 – September 3, 2015</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Where:            Woods Hole, Massachusetts (MBL)</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal">Directors:        Gabriel
Kreiman, Tomaso Poggio (L. Mahadevan, honorary director)</span></strong></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Application deadline:
  March 5, 2015</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">This intensive
three-week course will give advanced students a “deep end” introduction to the
problem of intelligence – how the brain produces intelligent behavior and how
we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. Today’s AI technologies,
such as Watson and Siri and Deep Learning, are impressive, but their domain
specificity and reliance on vast numbers of labeled examples are obvious
limitations; few view this as brain-like or human intelligence. The synergistic
combination of cognitive science, neurobiology, engineering, mathematics, and
computer science holds the promise to build much more robust and sophisticated
algorithms implemented in intelligent machines *and* to begin understanding how
the brain produces the mind. The goal of this course is to help produce a
community of leaders that is equally knowledgeable in neuroscience, cognitive
science, and computer science.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">The first half of the
course will focus on the intersection between biological and computational
aspects of learning and vision. The second half will focus on high-level social
cognition and artificial intelligence, as well as audition, speech and language
processing. Throughout the course, students will participate in tutorials to
gain hands on experience with these topics. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">The course will
include presentations by world leaders in the field, discussions with relevant
industrial companies interested in AI, hands-on tutorials, evening debates and
discussions. Additionally, students will be working on cutting-edge research
projects directly guided and mentored by the faculty.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">This course is
organized by the Center for Minds, Brains and Machines: <a href="https://cbmm.mit.edu/">https://cbmm.mit.edu/</a></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Course instructors
will include:</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Tomaso Poggio</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Gabriel Kreiman</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Nancy Kanwisher</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Winrich Freiwald</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Matt Wilson</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Josh Tenenbaum</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Liz Spelke</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Boris Katz</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">L Mahadevan</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Jim DiCarlo</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Aude Oliva</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Josh McDermott</span></p>

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<div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Gabriel Kreiman<br><a href="mailto:gkreiman@gmail.com" target="_blank">gkreiman@gmail.com</a><div><br></div></div></div>
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