The Science of Intelligence

Course Schedule

The following table is a tentative class schedule for the Fall 2020 9-58 Projects in the Science of Intelligence class. Speaker names in bold have confirmed their participation.

Date	Speaker(s)	Title / Theme	Readings & Delivererables
September 2	Tomaso Poggio & Course Staff	Aspects of a computational theory of intelligence & Project Introductions [Part I]
September 7	Labor Day [Holiday]
September 9	Class Staff	Project Introductions [Part II]
September 14	Recitation
September 16	Nancy Kanwisher	Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Organization of the Human Mind	Reading 1 Reading 2
September 21	Recitation
September 23	Josh McDermott	Using Machine Learning to Develop Better Models of Human Hearing	Reading 1 Reading 2
September 28	Recitation
September 30	Jim DiCarlo	Reverse Engineering Visual Object Recognition	Reading 1 Reading 2
October 5	Recitation
October 7	Margaret Livingstone (Harvard Medical School)	Domains in IT
October 12	Columbus Day [Holiday]
October 13	Recitation & Communication Feedback (Monday Schedule)
October 14	Shimon Ullman	Scene understanding by bottom-up, top-down visual routines
October 19	Mid-Semester Class Presentation
October 21	Josh Tenenbaum	Building machines that learn and think like people
October 26	Mid-Semester Class Presentation
October 28	Shibani Santurkar & Arturo Deza	Adversarial Images and Perceptual Invariance
November 2	Recitation
November 4	Andrei Barbu	Big Data and Inductive Biases as a Language Prior
November 9	Recitation
November 11	Veteran’s Day [Holiday]
November 16	Recitation
November 18	Pulkit Agrawal	Ecologic & Symoblic approaches to Vision and Robotics
November 23	Thanksgiving [Holiday]
November 25	Thanksgiving [Holiday]
November 30	Recitation
December 2	Final Projects Working Day	Day off to work on Final Projects
December 7	Recitation
December 9	Final Project Presentations