The MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab New Research Directions Polina Golland http://www.ai.mit.edu

The Mission of the AI Lab To answer: How does the human mind work? 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?

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

Who are we? Faculty — 24 Research Staff — 27 Post Doctoral Associate — 8 Visiting Scientists — 10 Research Assistants — 103 UROP — 30 Assistants — 13 Research Affiliate — 8 Total: 223

Funding 65% federal government 35% companies Jointly with LCS DARPA, ONR, NASA, … 35% companies Jointly with LCS NTT collaboration Project Oxygen Nokia Philips Hewlett Packard Acer Delta Electronics (NTT)

Some Selected Research Image guided surgery Intelligent prosthetics Rational capture Information access Collaboration support Humanoid robots Cellular robots