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Project summaries for 2018 are online.
# | Day | Date | Technical Topic | Communication assignment | Communication discussion |
19 | Mon | 14 May | Review | Email dangers | How to speak |
| Wed | 16 May | Assignment | Recommendation Presentation Feedback | How to applaud, Kabuki style A boyfriend in a box |
# | Day | Date | Technical Topic | Communication assignment | Communication discussion |
| Mon | 5 Feb | Registration day | | |
| Fri | 9 Feb | Winston reflects on the first 65 years | | |
1 | Mon | 12 Feb | Turing suggests test for success | Paper decoding | Paper decoding |
2 | Wed | 14 Feb | Minsky provides a problem set | Tenure recommendation | Empowerment promises, VSNC |
| Mon | 19 Feb | President's day | | |
3 | Tue | 20 Feb | Davis and friends affirm value of representations | VSN-C message to PHW | |
4 | Wed | 21 Feb | Malone sees Superminds in our future | VSN-C message to PHW | |
5 | Wed | 28 Feb | Berwick asserts uniqueness, not just more of the same | VSN-C message to PHW | |
6 | Friday | 2 Mar | Geiger argues that dyslexics see too much | VSN-C message to PHW | |
3 | Mon | 5 Mar | Brooks denies value of representations | Empowerment, contributions, glass | VSN-C |
4 | Wed | 07 Mar | Tenenbaum and friends salute the Reverend Bayes Glymour salutes Kepler | Panel preparation | How to run a panel |
5 | Mon | 12 Mar | Hinton launches third wave | White paper | Improvement through knowledge engineering |
6 | Wed | 14 Mar | Ullman explains visual routines | Trip report | How to run a conference |
7 | Mon | 19 Mar | Larson grounds symbols in perception | Press release | How to write a press release |
8 | Wed | 21 Mar | Marr speaks to what constitutes good work | Talking points | Talking points, Contributions |
| Mon | 26 Mar | No classSpring Break | | |
| Wed | 28 Mar | No classSpring Break | | |
| Mon | 2 Apr | Tattersall finds symbolic species Lettvin finds bug detector | Amnesty assignment | Winston's star |
9 | Wed | 4 Apr | Minsky predicts important role for perception | Review | How to do slides |
10 | Mon | 9 Apr | Spelke explains how to turn MIT students into rats Fedorenko tells us we don't need language to think | Speaker evaluation | How to make decisions |
11 | Wed | 11 Apr | Jackendoff grounds out in trajectories | Slide show | How to run a study |
| Mon | 16 Apr | Patriot's day vacation | | |
12 | Wed | 18 Apr | McIntyre builds contortionist | Nomination letter | How to write a nomination letter Quad charts |
13 | Mon | 23 Apr | Gergely learns from an infant | Quad chart | Selling it Product introductions |
14 | Wed | 25 Apr | Minsky gets emotional | Op Ed | How to construct posters |
15 | Mon | 30 Apr | Borchardt focuses on transitions | Update letter | Applied ethics |
16 | Wed | 2 May | Gentner thinks about analogy | Chapter openings | Emulation |
17 | Mon | 7 May | Winston tells yet another story | Getting the message to Garcia | How to follow How to lead |
18 | Wed | 9 May | Holmes values character | Interview | Interviews |