BrainScan:"Computing Intelligence"
Feb 28, 2011
Brain Scan
Winter 2011, Issue no. 19.
"By developing theories of how the brain learns from experience, Tomaso Poggio is also helping to engineer smarter machines."
From the director
"In this issue we highlight the eclectic career of Tomaso Poggio, one of the world’s leading computational neuroscientists and a founding member of the McGovern Institute.
Some philosophers have questioned whether the brain can ever understand the brain, and although I do not share this pessimistic view, there is no doubt that the complexity of the brain poses a unique challenge to human understanding. We cannot hope to understand
a system of 100 billion neurons without the help of computers, and nobody has contributed more to the study of computational neuroscience than my colleague Tomaso Poggio. His rigorous mathematical approach, along with his insistence that theoretical models must be closely tied to experimental research, has helped to transform our understanding of human vision. His work has also led to many practical applications, in fields ranging from cancer genetics to digital cameras and smart cars. Tommy continues to break new ground, most recently as co-director of the MIT Intelligence Initiative, an ambitious new program to understand how intelligence arises in the brain and how it can be replicated in machines.
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Bob Desimone, Director
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