<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: MicrosoftSansSerif;">Dear community,<br class=""><br class=""></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: MicrosoftSansSerif;">The Algonauts Project has launched its first Challenge, <a href="http://algonauts.csail.mit.edu/" target="_blank" class="">Explaining the Human Visual Brain</a>, inviting <span class="" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">you</span> to come up with a computer model of how the <span class="" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">human</span> brain sees and recognizes objects. <span class="" style="color: red;">Participants</span> who develop the best <span class="" style="color: red;">models</span> will be invited to present their work at a workshop July 19-20 at MIT in Cambridge, Mass.</p><div class="" style="font-family: MicrosoftSansSerif;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: MicrosoftSansSerif;">The <span class="" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">overall</span> goal of the Algonauts Project is to explain brain data with computational models, and to bring biological and AI researchers together on a common platform to advance human and machine intelligence research. To enter the <span class="" style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);">2019</span> Explaining the Human Visual Brain Challenge, download the development kit and data here: <a href="http://algonauts.csail.mit.edu/challenge.html" target="_blank" class="">http://algonauts.csail.mit.edu/challenge.html</a></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: MicrosoftSansSerif;"><br class="">The deadline to submit a model is June 22, 2019.</p><div class="" style="font-family: MicrosoftSansSerif;"> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: MicrosoftSansSerif;">Please also join us July 19-20 at MIT for the Algonauts’ Explaining the Human Visual Brain Workshop. The workshop will feature student tutorials, presentations from Challenge winners, and talks by pioneers in <span class="" style="color: red;">neuroscience, cognitive science and computer science</span>. Good luck with your submission and we look forward to seeing you at the workshop in July!<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class="">The Algonauts Project team<br class=""><br class="">Organizers:<br class="">Radoslaw Cichy, FUB<br class="">Aude Oliva, MIT<br class="">Gemma Roig, SUDT </p></body></html>