Schedule and Assignments

This page lists the speakers for Friday lecture classes, weekly writing assignments, and extended assignments. The weekly writing assignments are due on Tuesday of the week following the date of posting here. Additional Weekly readings are posted on the Readings page.

Week 1 (9/9 & 9/11):   Introduction & Analysis of Faces


Tomaso Poggio & Ellen Hildreth

 

Week 2 (9/16 & 9/18): Recognition of Faces and Complex Objects


Shimon Ullman & Daniel Harari


Writing Response #1: Modeling of Processing in the Ventral Stream

Week 3 (9/23 & 9/25): Recognition of Faces and Objects in the Ventral Stream


Tomaso Poggio


Writing Response #2: Learning about the Physical World

Assignment #1: Classifying Boundaries & Leveraging Innate Abilities to Support Recognition

Week 4 (9/30 & 10/2): Cognitive Development: Objects and Agents


Josh Tenenbaum & Elizabeth Spelke


Writing Response #3: Bayesian Models of Cognition

Week 5 (10/7 & 10/9): Bayesian Models of Cognition


Tejas Kulkarni


Writing Response #4: Development of Intuitive Theories

Week 6 (10/14 & 10/16): Development of Intuitive Physics and Psychology


Tomer Ullman & Laura Schulz


Writing Response #5: Recognition under Occlusion

Assignment #2: The Development of Intelligence

Week 7 (10/21 & 10/23): Recognition by Humans under Occlusion


Gabriel Kreiman


Writing Response #6: Audition in Brains & Machines

Week 8 (10/28 & 10/30): Audition in Brains & Machines


Josh McDermott


Writing Response #7: Vision & Language

Week 9 (11/4 & 11/6): Integration of Vision and Language


Andrei Barbu


Writing Response #8: Story Understanding

Week 10 (11/13): Understanding Stories


Patrick Winston


Writing Response #9: Functional Architecture for Intelligence

Week 11 (11/18 & 11/20): Functional Architecture for Intelligence


Nancy Kanwisher


Writing Response #10: Hippocampus, Memory, and Sleep

Week 12 (12/2 & 12/4): Hippocampus, Memory & Sleep


Matt Wilson


Writing Response #11: Reflection and Open Questions