[Mitworld] Sinha on Vision, Winston on Artificial Intelligence

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MIT World Newsletter

Volume 8, Number 52 |  August 19, 2009

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Opening the Mind’s Eye- Learning to See
June 6, 2009

It’s rare to find research that simultaneously advances basic science and brings immediate good 
into people’s lives, but Pawan Sinha’s Project Prakash does precisely that. An investigator of 
human visual processing, Sinha is interested in how these brain mechanisms develop, and in treating India's vast population of blind children.

http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/694

Speaker:
Pawan Sinha SM '92, PhD '95
Associate Professor of Computational Science, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT


Event Host:
Alumni Association

"Whenever we’re asked how the brain does X or Y, the impulse is to work with this beloved 
creature, the human infant, to see how it acquires different capabilities... But there are 
challenges: Babies are not interested in being experimental subjects. They’d rather sleep 
than give us good data."
-Pawan Sinha

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Computers with Commonsense: Artificial Intelligence at the MIT Round Table
June 6, 2009

Patrick Henry Winston ponders what makes humans different from our primate cousins. His field of 
artificial intelligence extends that question to thinking about how humans differ from computers, 
with a goal to “develop a computational theory of intelligence.”


http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/695

Speaker:
Patrick Henry Winston '65, SM '67, PhD '70
Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, MIT


Event Host:
Alumni Association

"We think with our eyes…vision is the locus of every profound kind of problem solving."
-Patrick Henry Winston

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In The Pipeline:

Vacation

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With this newsletter, MIT World completes its 8th year of publication with 108 new lectures published since September — reaching a total of 671 in the collection. We will take our annual hiatus, and will resume publication on September 9, 2009.Thanks to MIT World content hosts, production partners, and our sponsors, the Office of the Vice President for Institute Affairs at MIT, and The Lord Foundation of Massachusetts.
 
See you in September. 

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MIT Conference on Systems Thinking for Contemporary Challenges
Addressing Complexity in Healthcare, Energy, Space, and the Environment<BR><BR>October 22-23, 2009 at MIT						

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Sponsored by the MIT System Design and Management Program 

Register now to join MIT faculty and industry leaders who will discuss best practices for applying systems 
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