Nancy Kanwisher receives 2018 Heineken Prize
April 24, 2018
Nancy Kanwisher receives 2018 Heineken Prize
by
Julie Pryor | McGovern Institute for Brain Research
Nancy Kanwisher, the Walter A.
Nancy Kanwisher, the Walter A.
“When we talk about our experiences as graduate students at MIT, my colleagues and I tend to use words like ‘challenging,’ ‘rewarding,’ ‘inspiring,’ or ‘stressful’,” says Courtney Lesoon, the 2017-2018 Graduate Community Fellow for the Committed to Caring Program and a PhD student in the History,
Using a machine-learning system known as a deep neural network, MIT researchers have created the first model that can replicate human performance on auditory tasks such as identifying a musical genre.