1. The MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
New Research Directions

2. 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?

3. 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

4. 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

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

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

7. Intelligent Devices
Legged robots
Social robots

8. Intelligent Applications
Image guided surgery systems
Intelligent prosthetics