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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">The deadline is approaching to apply for the 2017 Brains, Minds and Machines summer course at MBL, Woods Hole:</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2017</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">A Special Topics Course at MBL Woods Hole, MA</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">Directors: </span><span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);font-family:"avenir book";font-size:10.5pt">Gabriel Kreiman, Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School; and Tomaso Poggio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">Course Date: August 13 – September 3, 2017</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">Application Deadline: March 14, 2017</span></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">More information: </span><span style="font-family:"times new roman";color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span class="gmail-MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book""><a href="http://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2017">http://cbmm.mit.edu/summer-school/2017</a></span></span></span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">Course Description</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">The basis 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 computations 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. The goal of this course is to help produce a community of leaders that is equally knowledgeable in neuroscience, cognitive science, and computer science and will lead the development of true biologically inspired AI.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">The class discussions will cover a range of topics, including:</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

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 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book"">Neuroscience: neurons and models</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma"><span></span></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book"">Computational vision</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma"><span></span></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book"">Biological vision</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma"><span></span></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book"">Machine learning</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma"><span></span></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book"">Bayesian inference</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma"><span></span></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book"">Planning and motor control</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma"><span></span></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book"">Memory</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma"><span></span></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book"">Social cognition</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma"><span></span></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book"">Inverse problems & well-posedness</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma"><span></span></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book"">Audition and speech processing</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma"><span></span></span></li>
 <li class="MsoNormal" style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book"">Natural language processing</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma"><span></span></span></li>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">These discussions will be complemented in the first week by MathCamps and NeuroCamps, to refresh the necessary background. Throughout the course, students will participate in workshops and tutorials to gain hands-on experience with these topics.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)"> </span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">Core presentations will be given jointly by neuroscientists, cognitive scientists, and computer scientists. Lectures will be followed by afternoons of computational labs, with additional evening research seminars. To reinforce the theme of collaboration between (computer science + math) and (neuroscience + cognitive science), exercises and projects often will be performed in teams that combine students with both backgrounds.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">The course will culminate with student presentations of their projects. These projects provide the opportunity for students to work closely with the resident faculty, to develop ideas that grow out of the lectures and seminars, and to connect these ideas with problems from the students’ own research at their home institutions.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">This course aims to cross-educate computer engineers and neuroscientists; it is appropriate for graduate students, postdocs, and faculty in computer science 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. The course is limited to 30 students.</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><b><u><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">2017 Course Faculty</span></u></b><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"avenir book";color:rgb(33,33,33)">Barbu, Andrei, MIT<br>DiCarlo, James Massachusetts Institute of Technology<br>Freiwald, Winrich, The Rockefeller University<br>Gershman, Samuel, Harvard University<br>Ghazanfar, Asif, Princeton University<br>Kanwisher, Nancy, MIT<br>Katz, Boris, MIT<br>Koch, Christof, Allen Institute for Brain Science<br>Kreiman, Gabriel, Harvard Medical School<br>Jeff Lichtman, Harvard University<br>Livingstone, Marge, Harvard Medical School<br>Mahadevan, L, Harvard University<br>McDermott, Josh, MIT<br>Meyers, Ethan, Hampshire College<br>Nakayama, Ken, Harvard University<br>Poggio Tomaso, MIT<br>Roig, Gemma, MIT<br>Rosasco, Lorenzo, MIT<br>Saxe, Rebecca, MIT<br>Schulz, Laura, MIT<br>Sompolinsky, Haim, Hebrew University<br>Spelke, Elizabeth, Harvard University<br>Tegmark, Max, MIT<br>Tenenbaum, Josh, MIT<br>Ullman, Shimon, Weizmann Institute<br>Wilson, Matt, MIT<br>Winston, Patrick, MIT<br>Wolfe, Jeremy, Harvard Medical School</span><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:tahoma;color:rgb(33,33,33)"><span></span></span></p>

<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></div>