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

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

Tomaso Poggio

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

Josh Tenenbaum & Elizabeth Spelke

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

Tejas Kulkarni

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

Tomer Ullman & Laura Schulz

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

Gabriel Kreiman

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

Josh McDermott

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

Andrei Barbu

Week 10 (11/13): Understanding Stories

Patrick Winston

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

Nancy Kanwisher

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

Matt Wilson