MIT Gets Bundle To Research Brains, Minds, and Machines

Campus Technology: The idea of getting machines to think and act more like people is nothing new. In the Iliad Homer described Hephaestus's 20 self-moving tripods that could scale Mount Olympus to deliver his forged goods to the other gods. Now the subject is a getting a modern twist. MIT has just received a five-year, $25 million grant specifically to study how human intelligence emerges from brain activity. The National Science Foundation made the award to fund creation of a multi-institutional research facility called the Center for Brains, Minds and Machines.

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