Transcript intro - MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

The MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
New Research Directions
Polina Golland
http://www.ai.mit.edu
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory — Research Directions
The Mission of the AI Lab
• To answer: How does the human mind work?
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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?
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory — Research Directions
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
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Who are we?
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Faculty — 24
Research Staff — 27
Post Doctoral Associate — 8
Visiting Scientists — 10
Research Assistants — 103
UROP — 30
Assistants — 13
Research Affiliate — 8
Total: 223
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory — Research Directions
Funding
• 65% federal government
– DARPA, ONR, NASA, …
• 35% companies
• Jointly with LCS
– NTT collaboration
– Project Oxygen
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Nokia
Philips
Hewlett Packard
Acer
Delta Electronics
(NTT)
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory — Research Directions
Some Selected Research
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Image guided surgery
Intelligent prosthetics
Rational capture
Information access
Collaboration support
Humanoid robots
Cellular robots
MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory — Research Directions