The Science of Intelligence

Fall 2022 – MIT

Course Schedule

The following table is a tentative class schedule for the Fall 2022 9.58 Projects in the Science of Intelligence class. Speaker names in bold have confirmed their participation.

DateSpeaker(s)Title / Theme

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September 7Brian Cheung & Course StaffAspects of a computational theory of intelligence Brian Cheung and Yudi Xie
September 12Recitation

Project Proposals Part 1

[Quique Toloza, Andrei Barbu, Jacob Huh]

 
September 14

Jim Dicarlo

Reverse engineering human visual intelligence 
September 19Recitation

Project Proposals Part 2

[Mengjia Xu, Gabe Margolis, Akshay Rangamani]

 
September 21Phil IsolaThe Anna Karenina Conjecture: Convergent evolution of minds and machines

September 26Recitation 

Project Proposals Part 3

[Quilee Simeon, Ali Hummos]

 
September 28Earl Miller

October 3Recitation

Project Proposals Part 4

[Tomer Galanti, Yena Han]

 
October 5Mark Harnett

October 10[Holiday]  
October 12Guangyu Robert Yang

October 17Jascha Sohl-DicksteinUnderstanding the role of scale in deep learning 
October 19Ruth RosenholtzBanning Attention

October 24[Mid-Term] Project Proposal Oral Presentation (Part 1) 

 

October 26Josh Tenenbaum

October 31[Mid-Term] Project Proposal Oral Presentation (Part 2)  
November 2

Pulkit Agrawal

November 7Recitation [Brian Cheung]Proposal Review 
November 9Andrei Barbu

November 14Recitation [Karen Pepper]Proposal Peer Review 
November 16Roger Levy + Lab

November 21Recitation [Karen Pepper]  
November 23Office Hours  
November 28RecitationOffice Hours 
November 30Final Project Presentations 1+ Office Hours  
December 5Final Project Presentations 2  
December 7Final Project Presentations 3