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<p class="MsoNormal">What: Brains, Minds and Machines Summer
Course</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">When: 08/15/2016 through 09/05/2016</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Application Deadline: March 14, 2016</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Link to application forms: <span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"><a href="https://ws2.mbl.edu/studentapp/studentapp.asp?courseid=BMM">https://ws2.mbl.edu/studentapp/studentapp.asp?courseid=BMM</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Link to course: <a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2016">http://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2016</a></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">The </span><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2016"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Brains,
Minds and Machines Summer Course</span></a><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">
will be held at MBL, Woods Hole, MA, from August 15, 2016 through September 5,
2016. This course is organized by the MIT-Harvard </span><a href="https://cbmm.mit.edu/"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Center
for Brains, Minds, and Machines</span></a><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">
(CBMM).</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">T</span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">he goal of this course is to introduce
students with a broad range of backgrounds to cross-disciplinary research in Neuroscience,
Cognitive Science, and Computer Science. </span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">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.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Lectures will be
complemented by student research projects completed under the supervision of
CBMM postdocs and faculty. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">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. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Past speakers
include: </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt"><a href="http://neurotheory.columbia.edu/~larry/"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Larry
Abbott</span></a><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, </span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Columbia University College of
Physicians and Surgeons</span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt"><a href="http://comaniciu.net/"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Dorin Comaniciu</span></a><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, Siemens Corporate Technology</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt"><a href="http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~shashua/"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Amnon
Shashua</span></a><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, The Hebrew
University of Jerusalem, Mobileye, OrCam</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:3pt"><a href="http://www.cns.nyu.edu/~eero/"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Eero
Simoncelli</span></a><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, Howard Hughes
Medical Institute, New York University</span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">2015
Invited Course Faculty:</span></strong><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"></span></p>
<p><a href="http://dicarlolab.mit.edu"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">DiCarlo, Jim</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, <em>MIT</em><br>
</span><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/node/16"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Freiwald, Winrich</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, <em>Rockefeller University </em><br>
</span><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/node/18"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Kanwisher, Nancy</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, <em>MIT </em><br>
</span><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/node/7"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Katz, Boris</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, <em>MIT
</em><br>
Koch, Christof, Allen Institute for Brain Research<br>
</span><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/node/20"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Kreiman, Gabriel</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, <em>Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical
School </em><br>
</span><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/node/9"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Poggio, Tomaso</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, <em>MIT
</em><br>
</span><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/node/22"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Rosasco, Lorenzo</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, <em>Italian Institute of Technology</em><br>
</span><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/node/23"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Saxe, Rebecca</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, <em>MIT</em><br>
</span><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/node/24"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Schulz, Laura</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, <em>MIT
</em><br>
</span><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/node/25"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Spelke, Liz</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, <em>Harvard
University</em><br>
</span><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/node/27"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Tenenbaum, Joshua</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, <em>MIT</em><br>
</span><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/node/12"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Wilson, Matthew</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, <em>MIT
</em><br>
</span><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/node/13"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Winston, Patrick</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">, <em>MIT </em></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Please visit our
website for more details:</span> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2016">http://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2016</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">This course is recommended for PhD students and Postdocs. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">The application
deadline is March 14, 2016.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">The online
application form can be found at: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'"><a href="https://ws2.mbl.edu/studentapp/studentapp.asp?courseid=BMM">https://ws2.mbl.edu/studentapp/studentapp.asp?courseid=BMM</a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue'">Tuition, MBL room & board are provided by an NSF Science and
Technology Center award to the Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, Grant
No. CCF-1231216. </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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