The Human Intelligence Enterprise

Schedule of Activities

SES #	Technical Topic	Communication Assignment	Discussion
1	Winston reflects on the first 65 years
2	Turing suggests test for success	Paper decoding	Paper decoding
3	Minsky provides a problem set	Recommendation	V-S-N-C; Broken glass
4	Davis and friends affirm value of representations; Brooks denies value of representations	Broken glass; For and against	Red teams
5	Marr speaks to what constitutes good work	Talking points; Contributions	Talking points
6	Tenenbaum and friends salute the Reverend Bayes; Glymour salutes Kepler	Panel preparation	How to run a panel
7	Hinton launches third wave	White paper	Improvement through knowledge engineering
8	Borchardt focuses on transitions	Update letter	Details sell; Winston’s star
9	Jackendoff grounds out in trajectories	Trip report	Interviews
10	Ullman explains visual routines	Study report	How to run a study
11	Larson grounds symbols in perception	Press release	How to write a press release
12	Spelke explains how to turn MIT students into rats; Fedorenko explains we don’t need language to think	Speaker evaluation	How to make decisions
13	Berwick & Chomsky explain how we are different	Interview	Mimicry
14	Tattersall finds symbolic species; Lettvin finds bug detector	Amnesty assignment	Applied ethics
15	Minsky predicts important role for perception	Review	How to write a review; How to write a nomination letter
16	Merge revisited
17	McIntyre builds contortionist	Nomination letter	How to do slides
18	Gergely learns from an infant	Quad chart	Selling it; Product introductions
19	Minsky gets emotional	Op ed	How to construct posters
20	Winston & Holmes tell a story	Poster
21	Ajemian detangles neural nets	Curriculum design
22 and 23	Presentations	Recommendation/Presentation/Suggestions