The MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab New Research Directions

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

Selected Current Research Areas Intelligent Interfaces Intelligent Devices Intelligent Agents Intelligent Applications

Intelligent Interfaces Interactive design capture Perceptual interfaces Learning patterns of behavior Natural language querying

Intelligent Devices Legged robots Social robots

Intelligent Applications Image guided surgery systems Intelligent prosthetics