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Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Professor of Computational Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

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.

Experience

  • –present
    Professor of Computational Cognitive Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Education

  • 1999 
    MIT, PhD in Brain and Cognitive Sciences