MIT INTELLIGENCE INITIATIVE - Key Persons
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- Graduate Student / Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, CSAIL
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- Principal Research Scientist and Head of the InfoLab Group at MIT 's Computer Science
- Research Scientist / Department: CSAIL
Boris Katz is a Principal Research Scientist and Head of the InfoLab Group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His research interests include natural language understanding and generation, intelligent multimedia information access, knowledge representation, human computer interaction, and event recognition.
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- Assistant Professor / Department: Sloan School of Management, ORC
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- Assistant Professor / Department: Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago ( TTIC )
- Professor at Toyota Technological Institute
Dhruv Batra is a Research Assistant Professor at Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago (TTIC), a philanthropically endowed academic computer science institute located in the campus of University of Chicago. In Spring 2011, Dhruv is a Visiting Scientist at CSAIL, MIT, collaborating with Bill Freeman.
Professor Drazen Prelec has been a member of the MIT faculty since 1991, and presently holds the Digital Equipment Corporation LGO Chair in Management and Economics. He has appointments at the Sloan School, the Department of Economics, and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in experimental psychology and AB in applied mathematics from Harvard University, and has taught Managerial Economics at Harvard Business School before joining MIT. He is mainly known for his research on behavioral departures from rational choice and, more recently, for work on the neuroscience of economic and financial decisions. Topics of longstanding interest include the psychology of pricing, credit card misuse, impatience and financial well-being, risky choice, addictive consumption, self-control, and the economic impact of religious traditions and beliefs. His research activities were recognized by several awards and fellowships, including those from the Harvard Society of Fellows, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Russell Sage Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences (Stanford) and the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton).
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- Esb at Media.Mit.Edu / Professor
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Research in the Gibson Lab (a.k.a. TedLab) is aimed at investigating how people learn, represent and process language. In addition, we have recently started to investigate the relationship between language, cognition and culture. We use a variety of methods, including behavioral experiments (e.g., reading and listening studies, lexical priming experiments, dual-task experiments, individual differences studies), statistical modeling and corpus analyses. In collaboration with other labs we also use eye-tracking methods, event-related potentials (ERPs) and functional MRI.
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- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor / Department: Sloan School of Management
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- Undergraduate Student ( UROP ) Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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- Post Doc
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- Associate Professor / Department: BCS Dept
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- Administrative Assistant / Department: Brain and Cognitive Sciences, McGovern Institute
- Professor
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- Research Scientist / Department: LCSL Lab, CBCL, BCS Dept
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- Research Scientist / Department: Mechanical Engineering
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- Post Doc / Department: Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
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Martin Rohrmeier has received his PhD in Musicology and a MPhil in Musicology from the University of Cambridge.
The aim of Martin's proposed project is to advance the understanding of the human capacity of musical syntax in a research project that combines cutting edge methodologies in theoretical linguistics and probabilistic computational models.
In its theoretical part, the project will take as a starting point the preliminary theory of musical syntax that I have recently developed (Rohrmeier, 2007, 2011). In collaborative work with the music syntax research group within MIT Linguistics, we will combine expertise in linguistics and music theory to devise formal tests for musical recursion or constituent structure, investigate whether the full range of linguistic features (as specified by minimalist and other linguistic theories) is reflected in musical syntax, and explore how a syntactic framework can model complex musical phenomena such as fauxbourdon style parallel triads, sequential patterns or chromaticisms.
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- Research Scientist
- Graduate Student
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- Post Doc / Department: Brain and Cognitive Sciences Dept. ( BCS )
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- Assistant Professor / Department: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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- Associate Professor / Department: Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
How do complex systems in the physical and biological world - from organisms to human language - arise from the interaction of simpler parts? How can we model these using the tools of mathematics, computation, and control? Can we build computer systems that learn language in the way that people do? Such fundamental questions have driven Professor Berwick's research over several decades, leading to the first modern computer program to learn language. Professor Berwick has written eight books and more than 200 articles on the nature of human language and its computational properties, how language is learned, how it develops and differs, and how it evolves and changes over time. He has also written extensively as a critic of evolutionary psychology and sociobiology.
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- Associate Professor / Department: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
- X Consortium Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
Russ is the X Consortium Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT, and a member of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award, the MIT Jerome Saltzer Award for undergraduate teaching, the DARPA Young Faculty Award, and was named a Microsoft Research New Faculty Fellow.
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Seth Teller obtained a Ph.D. from U.C. Berkeley in 1992, focusing on accelerated rendering of complex architectural environments. After post-doctoral fellowships at the Computer Science Institute of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Computer Science, and Princeton University's Computer Science Department, Teller joined MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Lab for Computer Science, and Artificial Intelligence Lab in 1994. (In 2004, the two labs merged into CSAIL, MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.) At CSAIL, Teller heads the Robotics, Vision, and Sensor Networks group (RVSN), where his research focuses on enabling machines to become aware of their surroundings and interact naturally with people. Some of his lab's recent projects include: hand-held and body-worn devices that provide navigation assistance indoors; a voice-commandable robotic wheelchair; a self-driving LandRover; and an unmanned, outdoor forklift commanded through speech and gestures.
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- Post Doc / Department: Sloan School of Management
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- Professor of Neuroscience and Picower Scholar
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- Post Doc / Department: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
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- Post Doc / Department: Brain and Cognitive Sciences Dept. ( BCS ), CSAIL
Tommi S. Jaakkola received M.Sc. in theoretical physics from Helsinki University of Technology, 1992, and Ph.D. from MIT in computational neuroscience, 1997. Following a postdoctoral position in computational molecular biology (DOE/Sloan fellow, UCSC) he joined the MIT EECS faculty 1998. His research interests include many aspects of machine learning, statistical inference and estimation, and analysis and development of algorithms for various modern estimation problems such as those involving predominantly incomplete data sources. His applied research focuses on problems in computational functional genomics such as transcriptional regulation.
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- Graduate Student
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- Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering
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William T. Freeman is an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, joining the faculty in September, 2001. His current research interests include machine learning applied to computer vision, Bayesian models of visual perception, and interactive applications of computer vision. In 1997, he received the Outstanding Paper prize at the Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition for work on applying bilinear models to "separating style and content". Previous research topics include steerable filters and pyramids, the generic viewpoint assumption, color constancy, and computer vision for computer games. He holds 15 patents.
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- Graduate Student / Department: Sloan School of Management