[Neuroinfo] Brain, Minds and Machines Summer Course. Deadline = March 16th

[Gabriel Kreiman]

*Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2015*



http://www.mbl.edu/education/special-topics-courses/brains-minds-and-machines/



When:              August 13 – September 3, 2015

Where:            Woods Hole, Massachusetts (MBL)

*Directors:      Gabriel Kreiman, Tomaso Poggio (L. Mahadevan, honorary
director)*

Application deadline:   March 16, 2015



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.



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.



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.



This course is organized by the Center for Minds, Brains and Machines:
https://cbmm.mit.edu/



Course instructors will include:

Tomaso Poggio

Gabriel Kreiman

Nancy Kanwisher

Winrich Freiwald

Matt Wilson

Josh Tenenbaum

Liz Spelke

Boris Katz

L Mahadevan

Jim DiCarlo

Aude Oliva

Josh McDermott



Projects will be cross-disciplinary and include access to the iCub
<http://www.iit.it/en/research/departments/icub-facility.html> humanoid
robot and Google Glass.



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:



Larry Abbott Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons

Dorin Comaniciu, Siemens Corporate Technology

Ammon Shashua, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mobileye, OrCam

Eero Simoncelli, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New York University





-- 
Gabriel Kreiman
gkreiman at gmail.com
http://klab.tch.harvard.edu
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