[Mitworld] New: Reed on Bioelectronic Interfaces, Tenenbaum on Language Learnability

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MIT World - Newsletter - Volume 7 | Number 20 | January 8, 2008
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[THE NEXT FRONTIER: BIOELECTRONIC INTERFACES]

SPEAKER:
Mark A. Reed
Harold Hodgkinson Professor of Engineering and Applied Science
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Applied Physics
Associate Director of the Yale Institute for Nanoscience and Quantum
Engineering, Yale University


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/511/>

[QUOTE]
"We want to...create integrated circuits that will interface to biotype
systems."
--  Mark A. Reed


EVENT HOST: Research Laboratory of Electronics at MIT
<http://rleweb.mit.edu/>

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[EXPLORATIONS IN LANGUAGE LEARNABILITY USING PROBABILISTIC GRAMMARS AND
CHILD-DIRECTED SPEECH]

SPEAKER:
Joshua Tenenbaum
Paul E. Newton Career Development Professor, Department of Brain and
Cognitive Sciences, MIT


PLAY NOW: <http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/512/>

[QUOTE]
"Most traditional learnability analyses consider what an ideal learner
gets from an ideal corpus of some sort. Ultimately, we want to know what
can a real child learn from real data. If we have this, we'd have a
powerful tool for diagnosing what goes in Universal Grammar from looking
at behavior."
-- Joshua Tenenbaum


EVENT HOST: Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems
<http://lids.mit.edu/>

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