Acquisition of an Integrated Computational and Psychophysical Laboratory

收购综合计算和心理物理实验室

• 批准号: 9601828
• 负责人: Michael Jordan
• 金额: $ 33.55万
• 依托单位: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1996
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1996-09-01 至 1999-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9601828&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Acquisition; Integrated; Computational; Psychophysical; Laboratory

The recently established MIT Center for Biological and Computational Learning (CBCL) unites seven faculty in the study of computational neuroscience with specialization in the areas of visual perception, motor control, language and the theory of learning. Recently space has been made available and renovated to bring the group together in a single physical location and this NSF award provides an infrastructure for research and training activities with the purchase of a modern networked computer laboratory, including workstations, servers and a network hub. Items to be purchased include 3 Bay Networks Network Huns, three Sun UltraServers, an SGI Indigo High-Impact Workstation and an Electrohome Marquee 8500 projector. Central to the facility is a 'virtual reality` system in which complex multi-modal stimuli (visual, auditory and haptic), can be synthesized and presented to subjects. A system for recording the positions of subjects' limbs and eyes will be developed, with tight coupling to the stimulus display system. The Electrohome Marquee projector is a high-brightness projector which displays stimuli in a large field of view. The visual stimuli will be generated on the high-performance Silicon Graphics Indigo which, when equipped with a High Impact video board, can generate real time texture-mapped images. The problem of understanding intelligence in terms of its algorithmic realization in the mind and brain is one of the greatest challenges of modern science. It has many facets; one which has become a unifying goal throughout the computational and brain sciences is the problem of understanding how an animal or a machine can learn. CBCL has provided leadership in research on learning mechanisms by developing a theoretical understanding of learning and by applying this understanding to a wide variety of problems in the domains of visual perception, motor control and language. The instrumentation provided through this grant will significantly further that goal.

最近成立的麻省理工学院生物和计算学习中心（CBCL）联合了七名计算神经科学研究教师，专门研究视觉感知，运动控制，语言和学习理论。最近，空间已被提供和翻新，使该集团在一个单一的物理位置，这个NSF奖提供了一个基础设施的研究和培训活动与购买一个现代化的网络计算机实验室，包括工作站，服务器和网络集线器。将要购买的项目包括3个海湾网络网络匈奴人，三个太阳超级服务器，一个SGI靛蓝高影响力工作站和一个电子家庭帐篷8500投影机。该设施的核心是一个“虚拟现实”系统，其中复杂的多模式刺激（视觉，听觉和触觉），可以合成并呈现给受试者。将开发一种用于记录受试者四肢和眼睛位置的系统，该系统与刺激显示系统紧密耦合。Electrohome Marquee投影仪是一款高亮度投影仪，可在大视野中显示刺激。视觉刺激将在高性能Silicon Graphics靛蓝上生成，当配备High Impact视频板时，可生成真实的时间纹理映射图像。 理解智能在大脑和思维中的算法实现是现代科学面临的最大挑战之一。它有许多方面;其中一个已经成为整个计算科学和脑科学的统一目标是理解动物或机器如何学习的问题。CBCL通过发展对学习的理论理解，并将这种理解应用于视觉感知，运动控制和语言领域的各种问题，在学习机制研究方面发挥了领导作用。通过这笔赠款提供的工具将大大促进这一目标。