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Prof. Joshua Brett Tenenbaum
Professor of Cognitive Science and Computation
Primary DLC
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
MIT Room:
46-4015
(617) 452-2010
jbt@mit.edu
http://web.mit.edu/cocosci/josh.html
Areas of Interest and Expertise
Computational Models of Similarity, Categorization and Concepts
Structure Discovery in Unsupervised Learning and Perceptual Organization
Machine Learning
Research Summary
Tenenbaum’s research currently focuses on two areas: describing the structure, content, and development of people’s commonsense theories, especially intuitive physics and intuitive psychology, and understanding how people are able to learn and generalize new concepts, models, theories and tasks from very few examples -- often called "one-shot learning.” Through a combination of mathematical modeling, computer simulation and behavioral experiments, his team works to uncover the logic behind our everyday inductive leaps: constructing perceptual representations, separating “style” and “content” in perception, learning concepts and words, judging similarity or representativeness, inferring causal connections, noticing coincidences, and predicting the future.
Recent Work
Projects
December 5, 2017
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Computational Cognitive Science Group (CoCoSci)
Principal Investigator
Joshua Tenenbaum
January 20, 2017
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Purposeful Prediction: Co-Robot Interaction Via Understanding Intent and Goals
Principal Investigator
Joshua Tenenbaum
September 13, 2016
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Analysis by Synthesis Revisited: Visual Scene Understanding by Integrating Probabilistic Programs and Deep Learning
Principal Investigator
Joshua Tenenbaum
January 26, 2016
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Computing Causes, Counterfactuals and Responsibility: Theoretical Analyses, Probabilistic Models and Psychophysical Studies
Principal Investigator
Joshua Tenenbaum
January 26, 2016
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Hierarchical Motion Perception
Principal Investigator
Joshua Tenenbaum
January 26, 2016
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Computational Principles of Macaque Face Processing System
Principal Investigator
Joshua Tenenbaum
January 26, 2016
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Learning Physics from Dynamic Scenes
Principal Investigator
Joshua Tenenbaum
January 26, 2016
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Towards a Unified Framework for Intuitive Physics
Principal Investigator
Joshua Tenenbaum
January 8, 2013
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Co-Robot Interaction Via Understanding Intent and Goals
Principal Investigator
Joshua Tenenbaum
January 23, 2008
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Cognitive Science\n
Principal Investigator
Joshua Tenenbaum
Video
5.27.21-Quest-for-Intelligence-Kaelbling-Tenenbaum
May 27, 2021
Conference Video
Duration: 123:57
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Leslie Kaelbling
Scientific Advisor, MIT Quest
Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering
Joshua Tenenbaum
Scientific Advisor, MIT Quest
Professor of Computational Cognitive Science
Related Faculty
Garga Chatterjee
Postdoctoral Associate
Evan Christopher Ehrenberg
Graduate Student
Riccardo Barbieri
Research Affiliate