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The MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab. New Research Directions Polina Golland http://www.ai.mit.edu. The Mission of the AI Lab. To answer: How does the human mind work? Where does the mind reside? What is the nature of memory? What are the roles of emotions?
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The MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab New Research Directions Polina Golland http://www.ai.mit.edu
The Mission of the AI Lab • To answer: How does the human mind work? • Where does the mind reside? • What is the nature of memory? • What are the roles of emotions? • What sort of representations does the brain use? • What does our visual system compute? • How did evolution shape us? • How do we learn? • What is consciousness?
What Do We Really Do? • Try to build intelligent systems • often application driven • can be internally motivated (faculty or students) • can be motivated by sponsors • Always try to do intellectually exciting things • Put things together in larger scale ways than others might dare • “way cool” to do so • get to explore (first) different aspects of intellectual space than others might be stuck in
Who are we? • Faculty — 24 • Research Staff — 27 • Post Doctoral Associate — 8 • Visiting Scientists — 10 • Research Assistants — 103 • UROP — 30 • Assistants — 13 • Research Affiliate — 8Total: 223
Funding • 65% federal government • DARPA, ONR, NASA, … • 35% companies • Jointly with LCS • NTT collaboration • Project Oxygen • Nokia • Philips • Hewlett Packard • Acer • Delta Electronics • (NTT)
Some Selected Research • Image guided surgery • Intelligent prosthetics • Rational capture • Information access • Collaboration support • Humanoid robots • Cellular robots