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NSF to Establish MIT Brain, Smart Machine Research Center

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The National Science Foundation will allocate $25 million towards an intelligent machines research center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and work in partnership with academic institutions and other organizations.

Tomaso Poggio, the Eugene McDermott professor at MIT’s brain sciences department, will serve as the principal investigator for the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines project that will receive funding under NSF’s Science and Technology Centers: Integrative Partnerships program, the agency said Monday.

Neuroscientists, engineers, mathematicians and computational scientists will work to build human-like machines in an effort to develop intelligence theories and gain knowledge of the brain under the five-year project.

Other investigators include Haym Hirsh, professor of computer science and information science at Cornell University, Lakshminarayanan Mahadevan, Lola England de Valpine professor of applied mathematics at Harvard University and Matthew Wilson, Sherman Fairchild professor of neuroscience and Picower scholar at MIT.

Participating organizations include:

  • California Institute of Technology
  • City University, Hong Kong
  • Cornell University
  • Harvard University
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • Howard University
  • Hunter College
  • Italian Institute of Technology
  • Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tubingen
  • MIT
  • National Center for Biological Sciences in Bangalore, India
  • Rockefeller University
  • Stanford University
  • Universidad Central del Caribe, Puerto Rico
  • University of California, Los Angeles
  • University of Genoa
  • University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
  • Weizmann Institute of Science
  • Wellesley College

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