Course Schedule
The following table is a tentative class schedule for the Fall 2021 9.58 Projects in the Science of Intelligence class. Speaker names in bold have confirmed their participation.
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title / Theme |
For questions about projects contact |
| September 8 | Tomaso Poggio & Course Staff | Aspects of a computational theory of intelligence | Yena Han and Arturo Deza |
| September 13 | Recitation [Arturo | Yena| Tiago | Colin] | Project Proposals Part 1 | |
| September 15 |
Shimon Ullman | Scene Understanding | Contact Yena Han for details |
| September 20 | Recitation [Akshay | Mengjia | Andy] | Project Proposals Part 2 | |
| September 22 | Josh McDermott |
Models of Human Hearing |
Josh McDermott |
| September 27 | Recitation | Project Proposals Part 3 | |
| September 29 | Josh Tenenbaum | Building machines that learn and think like people |
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| October 4 | Recitation [Fernanda | Andrei | Akhilan | Sarthak] | Project Proposals Part 4 | |
| October 6 |
Guangyu Robert Yang | A Map of the Science of Intelligence |
Fernanda De La Torre |
| October 11 | [Holiday] | ||
| October 13 | Nancy Kanwisher | Functional Imaging of the Human Brain: A Window into the Organization of the Human Mind | |
| October 18 | Recitation [Colin] | Deep Safari Tutorial [Part 1] | |
| October 20 |
Andrei Barbu | Language and vision in machines and brains |
Colin Conwell Ignacio Cases |
| October 25 | [Mid-Term] Project Proposal Oral Presentation (Part 1) |
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| October 27 | Ila Fiete |
How the brain builds flexible cognitive maps for spatial and non-spatial reasoning and inference
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Akhilan Boopathy Sarthak Chandra |
| November 1 | [Mid-Term] Project Proposal Oral Presentation (Part 2) | ||
| November 3 |
Jim DiCarlo | Reverse Engineering Visual Object Recognition | Tiago Marques |
| November 8 | Recitation [Karen Pepper] | Proposal Peer Review | |
| November 10 | Colin Conwell | Deep Safari Tutorial [Part 2] |
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| November 15 | Recitation [Arturo] | ||
| November 17 | Mark Thomas Harnett | ||
| November 22 | Recitation [Karen Pepper] | ||
| November 24 | Office Hours | ||
| November 29 | Recitation | Office Hours | |
| December 1 | Final Project Presentations 1+ Office Hours | ||
| December 6 | Final Project Presentations 2 | ||
| December 8 | Final Project Presentations 3 |
[Last Updated October 13th, 2021]
October 25th October 18th, 2021 — [Mid-Term] Project Proposal Oral Presentation [Part 1]
November 1st October 25th, 2021 — [Mid-Term] Project Proposal Oral Presentation [Part 2]
November 3rd October 27th, 2021 — Last Day to Submit 1 page Project Proposals
December 1st, 2021 — Final Project Presentations [Part 1]
December 8th, 2021 — Final Project Presentations [Part 2]
December 10th, 2021 — Last Day to Submit Final Project Assignment