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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">Directors:
Gabriel Kreiman, Tomaso Poggio (L.
Mahadevan, honorary director)</span></strong><strong><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal"></span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Application deadline:
March 16, 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: </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"><a href="https://cbmm.mit.edu/">https://cbmm.mit.edu/</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">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>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Projects will be
cross-disciplinary and include access to the <a href="http://www.iit.it/en/research/departments/icub-facility.html">iCub</a> humanoid
robot and Google Glass.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">We will also be hosting an
Evening Lecture Series, including speakers from both industry and academia, in
the fields of neuroscience, computer science, and cognitive science. Speakers
include: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Larry Abbott </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Columbia
University College of Physicians and Surgeons</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Dorin Comaniciu, Siemens Corporate Technology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Ammon Shashua, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mobileye, OrCam</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial">Eero Simoncelli, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York
University</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><a href="http://klab.tch.harvard.edu">http://klab.tch.harvard.edu</a></div><div><br></div></div></div>
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