The Science of Intelligence

Fall 2019 – MIT

Course Schedule

The following is a tentative schedule for the Fall 2019 semester.

Date

Speaker

Title

Readings & Deliverables

W 9/4

Tomaso Poggio

& Course staff

 

Course overview and Projects flash presentations by mentors

Slides (Tommy Poggio and Daniel Zysman)

M 9/9

No Class

W 9/11Course StaffProjects flash presentations by mentorsComplete project selection form by 9/13
M 9/16StaffProject assignments and discussionProject group assignments
W 9/18

Josh McDermott

Using Machine Learning to Develop Better Models of Human Hearing

Assigned Reading

Slides

M 9/23

Atissa Banuazizi

Writing and Communication skillsSlides
W 9/25Gabriel Kreiman

Beyond first impressions: flexible, reusable visual routines

Assigned readings: Review  Paper

Slides

M 9/30

Staff

Proposals review

Project proposal due by 9 PM
W 10/2

Shimon Ullman

The ‘digital baby’: combining learning and innate structures

Assigned readings: Review  Paper

Slides

M 10/7

Staff

Projects progress update

 

W 10/9

Aude Oliva

Spatiotemporal dynamics of visual recognition in the human brain

Poster 1   Paper 1

Poster 2   Paper 2

Slides

DNN & Brain reading list

 M 10/14Columbus Day (no Class)

W 10/16

No Class

M 10/21StaffProjects update 
W 10/23

Milo Philipps-Brown

Marion Boulicault 

Ethics and AI

Slides

Survey

M 10/28

Atissa Banuazizi

Draft content and strucure

Slides
 

W 10/30Tommy PoggioAspects of a computational theory of intelligence

CBMM Memo 100

CBMM Memo 49

CBMM Memo 17

Slides

M 11/4Atissa BanuaziziEffective presentationsFirst Project Draft due 
W 11/6Michale FeeSequential learning Paper
M 11/11Veterans Day (No Class)
W 11/13Josh TenenbaumBuilding machines that learn and think like peoplePaper
M 11/18   
W 11/20Leslie KaelblingLearning incremental, compositional models for general-purpose robots.Paper 1   Paper 2
M 11/25   
W 11/27Thanksgiving (No Class)
M 12/2   
W 12/4Tommy PoggioWrap up – overview  
M 12/9Final report due
W 12/11Students Presentations