Course Schedule
The following table is a tentative class schedule for the Fall 2024 9.58 Projects in the Science of Intelligence class. Speaker names in bold have confirmed their participation.
| Date | Speaker(s) | Title / Theme | Deliverables |
| September 4 | Tommy Poggio and Brian Cheung | Aspects of a computational theory of intelligence | |
| September 9 Recitation | Project Proposals | ||
| September 11 | Ila Fiete | Neural circuits for navigation and memory | |
| September 16 Recitation | Project Proposals Discussion | ||
| September 18 | Josh McDermott | New Models of Human Hearing via Machine Learning | – |
| September 23 Recitation | Proposal Peer Review | Project Proposal Draft (Due before the class) | |
| September 25 | Yoon Kim | Large language models: what they are, how they are built, and future directions | – |
| September 30 Recitation | Academic Writing | Project Proposal Final Draft (Due before the class) | |
| October 2 | Recitation (Note: there are two recitations this week!) | Machine learning best practices | – |
| October 7 Recitation | Roger Levy | The science of human language | |
| October 9 | Andrei Barbu | Measurement and Multimodality | – |
| October 14 | [holiday] | – | |
| October 16 | Jim DiCarlo | – | – |
| October 21 Recitation | [Mid-Term] Project Progress Report | Presentation Slides | |
| October 23 | Joshua Tenenbaum | – | – |
| October 28 Recitation | [Mid-Term] Project Progress Report | Presentation Slides | |
| October 30 | Jacob Andreas | What learning algorithm is in-context learning? | – |
| November 4 Recitation | Danny Mitropolsky | Assembly Calculus | |
| November 6 | Nancy Kanwisher | The Functional Organization of the Brain as a Window into the Architecture of the Human Mind | – |
| November 11 | [holiday] | ||
| November 13 | Philip Isola | – | – |
| November 18 Recitation | Final Report writing | ||
| November 20 | Pulkit Agrawal | ||
| November 25 Recitation | Mark Raibert | ||
| November 27 | Extended Project Office Hours | ||
| December 2 Recitation | Rebuttal Writing | ||
| December 4 | Final Project Presentations (extended period) | ||
| December 9 Recitation | |||
| December 11 |