Tomaso Poggio
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Tomaso Armando Poggio, born in Genoa, Italy, is the Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, an investigator at the McGovern Institute for Brain Research
, a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
(CSAIL) and the director of The Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT. Born in Genoa, Italy, and educated at Istituto Arecco, Tomaso Poggio completed his Doctorate in Physics at the University of Genoa
and received his degree in Theoretical Physics
under Professor A. Borsellino.
His interdisciplinary research on the problem of intelligence
, between brains and computers, started at the Max Planck Institute in Tuebingen, Germany in collaborations with Werner E. Reichardt
, David C. Marr and Francis H.C. Crick
, among others. He has made contributions to learning theory, to the computational theory of vision, to the understanding of the fly's visual system, and to the biophysics of computation. His recent work is focused on computational neuroscience
in close collaboration with several physiology labs, trying to answer the questions of how our visual system learns to see and recognize scenes and objects.
Poggio is an honorary member of the Neuroscience Research Program, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
and a Founding Fellow of AAAI. He received the Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of Pavia
in 2000, the 2003 Gabor Award, the 2009 Okawa prize http://www.okawa-foundation.or.jp/e/oka/index.html#, and named in 2009 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for “distinguished contributions to computational neuroscience, in particular, computational vision learning and regularization theory, biophysics of computation and models of recognition in the visual cortex.” He is one of the most cited computational neuroscientists. A former Corporate Fellow of Thinking Machines Corporation, he was involved in starting several other high tech companies.
McGovern Institute for Brain Research
The McGovern Institute for Brain Research is a research institute within MIT. Its mission is to understand how the brain works and to discover new ways to prevent or treat brain disorders...
, a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is a research laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology formed by the 2003 merger of the Laboratory for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...
(CSAIL) and the director of The Center for Biological and Computational Learning at MIT. Born in Genoa, Italy, and educated at Istituto Arecco, Tomaso Poggio completed his Doctorate in Physics at the University of Genoa
University of Genoa
The University of Genoa is one of the largest universities in Italy.Located in Liguria on the Italian Riviera, the university was founded in 1471. It currently has about 40,000 students, 1,800 teaching and research staff and about 1,580 administrative staff.- Campus :The University of Genoa is...
and received his degree in Theoretical Physics
Theoretical physics
Theoretical physics is a branch of physics which employs mathematical models and abstractions of physics to rationalize, explain and predict natural phenomena...
under Professor A. Borsellino.
His interdisciplinary research on the problem of intelligence
Intelligence
Intelligence has been defined in different ways, including the abilities for abstract thought, understanding, communication, reasoning, learning, planning, emotional intelligence and problem solving....
, between brains and computers, started at the Max Planck Institute in Tuebingen, Germany in collaborations with Werner E. Reichardt
Werner E. Reichardt
Werner E. Reichardt was a German physicist and biologist who helped to establish the field of biological cybernetics...
, David C. Marr and Francis H.C. Crick
Francis Crick
Francis Harry Compton Crick OM FRS was an English molecular biologist, biophysicist, and neuroscientist, and most noted for being one of two co-discoverers of the structure of the DNA molecule in 1953, together with James D. Watson...
, among others. He has made contributions to learning theory, to the computational theory of vision, to the understanding of the fly's visual system, and to the biophysics of computation. His recent work is focused on computational neuroscience
Computational neuroscience
Computational neuroscience is the study of brain function in terms of the information processing properties of the structures that make up the nervous system...
in close collaboration with several physiology labs, trying to answer the questions of how our visual system learns to see and recognize scenes and objects.
Poggio is an honorary member of the Neuroscience Research Program, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
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and a Founding Fellow of AAAI. He received the Laurea Honoris Causa from the University of Pavia
University of Pavia
The University of Pavia is a university located in Pavia, Lombardy, Italy. It was founded in 1361 and is organized in 9 Faculties.-History:...
in 2000, the 2003 Gabor Award, the 2009 Okawa prize http://www.okawa-foundation.or.jp/e/oka/index.html#, and named in 2009 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for “distinguished contributions to computational neuroscience, in particular, computational vision learning and regularization theory, biophysics of computation and models of recognition in the visual cortex.” He is one of the most cited computational neuroscientists. A former Corporate Fellow of Thinking Machines Corporation, he was involved in starting several other high tech companies.
External links
- The Center for Biological and Computational Learning (CBCL)
- McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT
- Current Curriculum Vitae (short version)
- BBC: Visions of the Future - February 29, 2008 - This is part of the excellent BBC series entitled "visions of the future". This short clip (3min) here shows work performed at CBCL (MIT) about a computational neuroscience model of the ventral stream of the visual cortex. The story here focuses on recent work by Serre, Oliva and Poggio on comparing the performance of the model to human observers during a rapid object categorization task.
- video demonstration of automatic classification of mouse behavior based on algorithm developed by Serre, Poggio and their colleagues.
- THE DISCOVERY CHANNEL [Toronto, Canada] by Jennifer Scott (June 17, 2002): Video:Science, Lies & Videotape - Tony Ezzat and Tomaso Poggio.
- NBC TODAY SHOW with Katie Couric (May 20, 2002): Video:* (100 kbit/s) (300 kbit/s) - Tony Ezzat and Tomaso Poggio.
- NIPS 2007 Tutorial: Visual Recognition in Primates and Machines
- "Mimicking How the Brain Recognizes Street Scenes", California Science & Technology News, Posted on February 6, 2007
- Machine Learning, AI Magazine Volume 20 Number 3 (1999) (© AAAI)
- Interview with Dr. Poggio
- Paper Abstracts