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<div><b><font face="Arial">The Algonauts Project: Explaining the Human Visual Brain</font></b></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Dates: July 19-20, 2019</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Place: MIT, Cambridge, Mass.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">POSTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION AND WORKSHOP REGISTRATION ARE NOW OPEN!</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">We are limited to 30 poster presentation slots so apply soon!</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">POSTER ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: July 1, 2019</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Please submit abstracts via this form: </font><a href="https://forms.gle/uvqY7pWSqjf6C7K59" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size: 10pt;">https://forms.gle/uvqY7pWSqjf6C7K59</a></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">WORKSHOP REGISTRATION DEADLINE: July 12, 2019</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Please register via this form: <a href="https://forms.gle/hjn2t5crMWztMvQ27" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size: 10pt;">https://forms.gle/hjn2t5crMWztMvQ27</a></font></div>
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<div><b><font face="Arial">OVERVIEW</font></b></div>
<div><font face="Arial">The quest to understand human intelligence and engineer advanced forms of artificial intelligence are increasingly intertwined. The Algonauts Project brings biological and artificial intelligence researchers together on a common platform
to exchange ideas and advance both fields. Our first challenge and workshop, Explaining the Human Visual Brain, focuses on building computer vision models that simulate how the brain sees and recognizes objects, a topic that has long fascinated neuroscientists
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<div><b><font face="Arial">WORKSHOP, July 19-20, 2019</font></b></div>
<div><font face="Arial">The first day of the workshop, on July 19, will include tutorials on how the human brain processes visual stimuli; state-of-the-art object recognition models in computer vision; and an overview of methods for studying human visual brain
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<div><font face="Arial">The second day of the workshop, on July 20, will include a poster session and talks by experts at the intersection of human and machine vision. Challenge winners will be invited to present their models during the workshop. <a href="http://algonauts.csail.mit.edu/workshop.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Learn
more about the workshop and abstract submission</a></font></div>
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<div><b><font face="Arial">CONFIRMED SPEAKERS:</font></b></div>
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<li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Matt Botvinick (DeepMind)</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Radoslaw Cichy (FU Berlin)</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">David Cox (Harvard University, MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab)</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">James DiCarlo (MIT)</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Jack Gallant (UC Berkeley)</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Martin Hebart (NIMH)</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Kendrick Kay (UMN)</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Talia Konkle (Harvard University)</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Nikolaus Kriegeskorte (Columbia University)</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Yalda Mohsenzadeh (MIT, Western University)</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Thomas Naselaris (MUSC)</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Aude Oliva (MIT)</font></span></li><li><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><font face="Arial">Gemma Roig (SUTD, MIT)</font></span></li></ul>
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<div><font face="Arial">For questions about the Algonauts Project workshop, please contact algonauts@csail.mit.edu.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Best,</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">The Algonauts Project team</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Organizers:</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Radoslaw Cichy, FUB</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Aude Oliva, MIT</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial">Gemma Roig, SUTD</font></div>
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