Project Grant 2124052
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $500,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations on June 1, 2022 to support research titled "AF: SMALL: AN ALGORITHMIC THEORY OF BRAIN BEHAVIOR: CONCEPT REPRESENTATION AND LEARNING IN SPIKING NEURAL NETWORKS." The three-year project will investigate concept representation and learning in spiking neural networks through the lens of algorithmic theory. The award...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $600,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) on December 1, 2021 to fund research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: FOUNDATIONS OF DEEP LEARNING: THEORY, ROBUSTNESS, AND THE BRAIN?" through November 30, 2024. The award is part of the NSF's Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA 47.049), which aims to promote progress in these scientific fields and strengthen the national scientific...
- The National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences awarded a $500,000 Project Grant to Boston Children's Hospital to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NCS-FO: STUDYING LANGUAGE IN THE BRAIN IN THE MODERN MACHINE LEARNING ERA" from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2025. This award will fund research into studying language acquisition and processing in the brain using modern machine learning techniques, advancing the NSF's STEM Education...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $529,462 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Computing and Communication Foundations on June 1, 2021 to support research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: CIF: MEDIUM: ANALYSIS AND GEOMETRY OF NEURAL DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS." The award is part of the NSF's Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA #47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $290,454 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences to conduct collaborative research titled "LOOPHOLES AS A WINDOW INTO THE LEARNING OF MEANING." The two-year project grant, awarded September 1, 2021 with a completion date of August 31, 2023, will fund research under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075). This program supports basic research...
- The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) received a $108,000 Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation Division of Computing and Communication Foundations to support collaboration research on probabilistic, geometric, and topological analysis of neural networks from theory to applications. The two-year award, issued on January 1, 2022 and set to conclude on December 31, 2024, will fund research under the Mathematical and Physical Sciences program (CFDA #47.049). This...
- This National Science Foundation project grant of $928,576 will fund research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from July 2022 to June 2025 under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will support investigation into the emergence and function of modular structures in biological brains and artificial learning systems. Researchers will study how modular architectures may arise through local connectivity constraints in neural networks,...
- This Project Grant award from the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) program provides $600,000 over a 5-year period from July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2030. The project aims to develop new methods for efficient, architecture-aware algorithms for large language models (LLMs) to make existing LLM applications more efficient, enable new applications, and broaden access. Key focus areas include: (1) creating architectural primitives to...
- The National Science Foundation (NSF) Biological Sciences (CFDA 47.074) Federal Grant Program awarded a Project Grant of $300,000.00 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on August 15, 2025. The grant, titled "EAGER: MULTIMODAL AI FOR ELUCIDATING GENOME STRUCTURE-FUNCTION RELATIONSHIPS IN HUMAN BRAIN CELLS", will support research to investigate how chromatin accessibility, spatial DNA structure, and gene activity work together to establish cell identity in the human brain....
- This National Science Foundation (NSF) Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CFDA 47.070) Project Grant award of $600,000 to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) supports research into developing better algorithms for machine learning problems that involve sequential data with rich dependency structures. The project will explore learning methods for linear dynamical systems, graphical models, and hidden Markov models, with the goal of proving rigorous theoretical...
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) was awarded a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems. The grant will support MIT's "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: NCS-FO: STUDYING LANGUAGE IN THE BRAIN IN THE MODERN MACHINE LEARNING ERA" project from September 15, 2021 through August 31, 2025. Under this award, MIT researchers will study human language processing and representation in the brain using modern machine learning techniques. The research aims to advance understanding of how linguistic knowledge is encoded and computed in the brain, with potential implications for developing more human-like artificial intelligence. The award supports the National Science Foundation's STEM Education program (CFDA #47.076), which seeks to ensure the vitality of the nation's science, technology, engineering and mathematics education enterprise.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $500.0k | 9/2/21 |