Category: Workshops
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Harvard Kempner Institute: Spring Into Science
march 26, 2025 Annual retreat, Kempner Institute for the study of Natural and Artificial Intelligence The proceedings included a panel discussion entitled “How will cognitive science or neuroscience contribute to modern AI?” featuring (left to right) Talia Konkle, a Kempner associate faculty member, SueYeon Chung, an incoming institute investigator, and Gabriel Kreiman, a Kempner affiliate faculty… Read more
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Cognitive Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2025
march 31, 2025 Nature and nurture revisited: new insights about core knowledge and visual development across cognitive systems Chaisr: Gabriel Kreiman and Elisabetta Versace The combinatorial advantage of predispositions. Elisabetta Versace. Through a glass, darkly: approximations, hacks and workarounds in intuitive physics and imagination. Tomer Ullman. The efficient coding of visual textures in rats, chicks… Read more
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BrainMind Science Collective 2025
march 21-23, 2025 BrainMind Science Collective Bay Area: Menlo Park and Mountain View On March 21–23, 2025, in the Bay Area, the BrainMind Science Collective series will united 150 scientists, innovators, and thought leaders working at the forefront of brain and mind sciences, alongside cross-disciplinary thinkers from AI, physics, and beyond. (1) One-minute pitch: helping… Read more
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Humanity meets AI
feb 27-28 How might AI influence our understanding of humanity, morality, and meaning-making? Prof. Kreiman participated in a discussion panel with Prof. Dashi-Velez and Dr. Goodwin organized by the Harvard Divinity School The discussion focused on fascinating issues at the intersection of technology development, well-being, morality, and how to think about the role of humanity… Read more
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Kreiman lab presentations at NeurIPS 2024
dec 10-15, 2024 Neural Information Processing Systems 2024 Several members of the Kreiman lab presented their cutting-edge research at NeurIPS 2024. Read more
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Congratulations to Spandan Madan on his NeuroAI 2024 work!
10/10/2024 Improving out-of-distribution generalization by mimicking the human visual diet Spandan’s paper was accepted at NeuroAI @ NeurIPS 2024 In this work Spandan shows that a careful account of the visual input statistics that humans encounter during learning can help improve machine learning algorithms. Read more
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Congratulations to BMM 2024 students!
08/25/2024 An impressive new cadre of scholars Congratulations to all the students who participated in the Brains, Minds and Machines 2024 summer course in Woodshole, MA. Students pursued exciting projects from asking about the relationship between polynomial and non-polynomial problems to investigating adversarial attacks in AI algorithms to comparing neural networks to neurophysiological recordings. Read more
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Kranium Poster Session 2024
August 8, 2024 First generation of Kranium scholars present their work The Kempner Institute at Harvard sponsored the first group of undergraduate researchers through their Kranium program. Come and see their posters discussing their work. Alliyah Steele from the Kreiman lab presents her work on studying the representation of language in brains and machines. Read more
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Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course 2024
08/05/2024 Summer + AI + Neuroscience We start a new edition of the Brains, Minds and Machines Summer Course in Woodshole, MA with an impressive cadre of 35 international scholars interested in the intersection of brain science, computer science, and cognitive science. Read more
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KLAB goes camping
07/29/2024 — 08/02/2024 KLAB goes to Acadia National Park Camping, hiking, and cooking together in the most beautiful National Park in the east coast provides a break and an opportunity to discuss science, projects, and life in a natural and different environment. Read more