Connectionists: Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2016

[Georgios Evangelopoulos]

Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2016
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A Special Topics Course at MBL Woods Hole, MA

Directors: Gabriel Kreiman, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School;
and Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

* Course Dates: Aug. 15 - Sep. 5, 2016 *
More information: http://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2016

* Application Deadline: Mar. 14, 2016 *
Apply:
http://www.mbl.edu/education/special-topics-courses/brains-minds-and-machines/

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. Moreover, a synergistic combination of cognitive science,
neurobiology, engineering, mathematics, and computer science holds the
promise to build more robust and sophisticated algorithms implemented in
intelligent machines.

Set in the charming town of Woods Hole, MA, the Brains, Minds and Machines
2016 Summer Course, organized by the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines
(CBMM) will feature lectures and tutorials by leaders in the field,
covering among others Neuroscience: neurons and models, Computational
vision, Biological vision, Machine learning, Bayesian inference, Planning
and motor control, Memory, Social cognition, Inverse problems &
well-posedness, Audition and speech processing, Natural language
processing. In addition, students will be working on cutting-edge projects
with the help of faculty and teaching assistants. CBMM 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. The course aims to cross-educate, and is appropriate for, graduate
students, postdocs, and faculty in computer science, cognitive science and
neuroscience.

All local costs of participating in this course (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. Limited travel
reimbursement may be available for admitted students.

-- 
Georgios Evangelopoulos
Postdoctoral Fellow, MIT, IIT
http://www.mit.edu/~gevang
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