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Natural / Artificial Intelligence 2018 Program

2018 Symposium Program
Thursday, October 11
9:00 - 9:30 am	Breakfast and Check-in
9:30 - 9:45 am	Opening Remarks William Newsome Vincent V.C. Woo Director, Stanford Neurosciences Institute Harman Family Provostial Professor Professor of Neurobiology, HHMI Investigator Stanford University
9:45 - 10:30 am	Neural networks and the brain: from the retina to semantic cognition Surya Ganguli Assistant Professor Department of Applied Physics Stanford University
10:30 - 11:15 am	Hierarchical reinforcement learning: computational advances and neuroscience connections Doina Precup Associate Professor School of Computer Science McGill University, Canada
11:15 - 11:30 am	Break
11:30 - 12:15 pm	Reverse engineering visual intelligence James DiCarlo Peter de Florez Professor and Department Head Brain and Cognitive Sciences Investigator, McGovern Institute for Brain Research Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12:15 -12:30 pm	Neurosciences Institute update William Newsome Vincent V.C. Woo Director, Stanford Neurosciences Institute Harman Family Provostial Professor Professor of Neurobiology, HHMI Investigator Stanford University
12:30 - 1:30 pm	Lunch
1:30 - 1:45 pm	Sammy Kuo Awards presentation Corinna Darian-Smith Associate Professor Department of Comparative Medicine Stanford University
1:45 - 2:30 pm	Reinforcement learning: Fast and slow Matthew Botvinick Director of Neuroscience Research, Deep Mind Honorary Professor, Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London
2:30 - 3:15 pm	Modern AI and the state of interdisciplinary exchange with neuroscience Greg Corrado Principal Scientist Director of Augmented Intelligence Research Google AI
3:15 - 3:30 pm	Break
3:30 - 4:15 pm	Human-centered AI: a Case for Cognitively Inspired Machine Intelligence Fei-Fei Li Professor Department of Computer Science Stanford University Google Cloud
4:15 - 4:45 pm	Panel Discussion
4:45 - 5:00 pm	Closing Remarks William Newsome Vincent V.C. Woo Director, Stanford Neurosciences Institute Harman Family Provostial Professor Professor of Neurobiology, HHMI Investigator Stanford University
5:00 - 6:30 pm	Poster Presentation and Reception

Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute, Stanford University

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