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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">Brains, Minds and Machines<span></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">A Special Topics Course
at MBL Woods Hole, MA<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">Directors:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue""> Gabriel Kreiman, Children’s Hospital, Harvard
Medical School; and Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">Course Dates:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue""> Aug. 13 - Sept. 3, 2017<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">***Application Deadline:</span></b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue""> March 14, 2017*** <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><a href="https://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2017"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">https://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2017</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue""><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">The problem of
intelligence – how the brain produces intelligent behavior and how we may be
able to replicate intelligence in machines – is arguably the greatest problem
in science and technology. To solve it we will need to understand how human
intelligence emerges from computation in neural circuits, with rigor sufficient
to reproduce similar intelligent behavior in machines. Success in this endeavor
ultimately will enable us to understand ourselves better, to produce smarter
machines, and perhaps even to make ourselves smarter. Today’s AI technologies,
such as Watson and Siri, 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. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">Set in the charming town
of Woods Hole, there will be lectures and tutorials by leaders in the field. In
addition, students will be working on cutting-edge projects with the help of
faculty and teaching assistants. This course aims to cross-educate computer
engineers and neuroscientists; it is appropriate for graduate students,
postdocs, and faculty in computer science and/or neuroscience. Students are
expected to have a strong background in one discipline (such as neurobiology,
physics, engineering, and mathematics). Our goal is to develop the science and
the technology of intelligence and to help train a new generation of scientists
that will leverage the progress in neuroscience, cognitive science, and computer
science. <span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">The </span><a href="cbmm.mit.edu"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">Center
for Brains, Minds and Machines (CBMM)</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue""> [<a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu">cbmm.mit.edu</a>] 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></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">Invited faculty include Larry
Abbott, Bill Bialek, Bob Desimone, Jim DiCarlo, Winrich Freiwald, Sam Gershman,
Asif Ghazanfar, Nancy Kanwisher, Boris Katz, Gabriel Kreiman, Christof Koch,
Jeff Lichtman, Marge Livingstone, Josh McDermott, Tommy Poggio, Marc Raibert,
Lorenzo Rosasco, Rebecca Saxe, Haim Sompolinsky, Liz Spelke, Max Tegmark, Josh
Tenenbaum, Shimon Ullman, Matt Wilson, Patrick Winston, Jeremy Wolfe, among
others.<span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">For more information,
including the link to the application portal, please visit:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><a href="https://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2017"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue"">https://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2017</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"helvetica neue""><span></span></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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