The Science of Intelligence

Fall 2023 – MIT

Course Schedule

The following table is a tentative class schedule for the Fall 2023 9.58 Projects in the Science of Intelligence class. Speaker names in bold have confirmed their participation.

Date

Speaker(s)

Title / Theme

Deliverables

September 6

Tomaso Poggio and Brian Cheung

Aspects of a computational theory of intelligence 

 

September 11

Recitation

Andrei Barbu, Laureline Logiaco, Yudi Xie

3 Project Proposals

 

September 13

Lakshmi Govindarajan, Akshay Rangamani, Brian Cheung, Tomer Galanti

5 Project Proposals

 

September 18

Recitation

 

Project Proposals Discussion

 

September 20

Jim DiCarlo

September 25

Recitation

Kristen Starkowski, Dave Larson

Proposal Peer Review


Project Proposal Draft

(Due before the class)

September 27

Phillip Isola

October 2

Recitation

Kristen Starkowski, Dave Larson

Academic Writing


Project Proposal Final Draft

(Due before the class)

October 4

Josh Tenenbaum

October 9

[Holiday]

 

 

October 11

Pulkit Agrawal

October 16

Roger Levy

 

October 18

Robert Yang

October 23

Recitation

 

[Mid-Term] Project Progress Report

Presentation Slides

October 25

Mark Harnett

October 30

Recitation

 

[Mid-Term] Project Progress Report

Presentation Slides

November 1

Tomaso Poggio

November 6

Recitation

 

ChatGPT and other tools
[Brian Cheung]

 

November 8

Anna Ivanova

November 13

Recitation

Kristen Starkowski, Dave Larson

Final Report Writing

 

November 15

Andrei Barbu

November 20

Nancy Kanwisher

 

 

November 22

Office Hours

 

 

November 27

Project Check-Ins

 

 

November 29

Intelligence Panel
Phil Isola, Tommy Poggio, Jovana Kondic, Brian Cheung

 

 

December 4

Final Project Presentations 1

 

 

December 6

Final Project Presentations 2

 

 

December 11Tomaso Poggio  
December 13Theos Evgeniou, Brian Cheung
AI Policy Panel