The Science of Intelligence

Fall 2024 – MIT

Course Schedule

The following table is a tentative class schedule for the Fall 2024 9.58 Projects in the Science of Intelligence class. Speaker names in bold have confirmed their participation.

DateSpeaker(s)Title / ThemeDeliverables
September 4Tommy Poggio and Brian CheungAspects of a computational theory of intelligence  
September 9
Recitation
 Project Proposals 
September 11Ila FieteNeural circuits for navigation and memory 
September 16
Recitation
 Project Proposals Discussion 
September 18Josh McDermottNew Models of Human Hearing via Machine Learning
September 23
Recitation
 Proposal Peer ReviewProject Proposal Draft
(Due before the class)
September 25Yoon KimLarge language models: what they are, how they are built, and future directions
September 30
Recitation
 Academic WritingProject Proposal Final Draft
(Due before the class)
October 2Recitation (Note: there are two recitations this week!)Machine learning best practices
October 7
Recitation
Roger Levy The science of human language 
October 9Andrei BarbuMeasurement and Multimodality
October 14[holiday] 
October 16Jim DiCarlo
October 21
Recitation
 [Mid-Term] Project Progress ReportPresentation Slides
October 23Joshua Tenenbaum
October 28
Recitation
 [Mid-Term] Project Progress ReportPresentation Slides
October 30Jacob AndreasWhat learning algorithm is in-context learning?
November 4
Recitation
Danny MitropolskyAssembly Calculus 
November 6Nancy KanwisherThe Functional Organization of the Brain as a Window into the Architecture of the Human Mind 
November 11[holiday]  
November 13Philip Isola
November 18
Recitation
  Final Report writing 
November 20Pulkit Agrawal  
November 25
Recitation
Mark Raibert  
November 27Extended Project Office Hours  
December 2
Recitation
  Rebuttal Writing 
December 4Final Project Presentations (extended period)  
December 9
Recitation
   
December 11