Tomaso Poggio
Tomaso Poggio (born September 11, 1947 in Genoa ) is an American computer scientist of Italian origin. He is particularly concerned with learning in computers and in biological systems, computer vision and the functioning of the brain and neuroinformatics . He is a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Poggio received his doctorate summa cum laude ( On Holographic Models of Memory ) in theoretical physics from the University of Genoa in 1970 . From 1971 to 1981 he was a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen . In 1981 he became Associate Professor and 1984 Professor in the AI Lab (today CSAIL) and the Faculty of Psychology at MIT. Since 2002 he has been Eugene McDermott Professor in the Department of Brain Research and Cognitive Science and since 2013 Director of the Center for Brain, Minds and Machines (CBMM) of the McGovern Institute of Brain Research at MIT.
In Tübingen he worked with Werner Reichardt (on information processing in the visual system of the fly) and he worked with David Marr and Francis Crick .
He is an external member of the Istituto Lombardo and the Accademia dei XL and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Association for the Advancement of Science . In 1992 he received the Max Planck Research Prize and in 1979 the Otto Hahn Medal . He is an honorary doctorate from the University of Pavia. In 2003 he received the Gabor Award and in 2009 the Okawa Prize.
Poggio is a US citizen.
Fonts
- with F. Girosi Networks for approximation and learning , Proc. IEEE, Vol. 78, 1990, 1481-1497
- with R. Brunelli: Face recognition: features vs. templates, IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 15, 1993, 1042-1052
- with D. Marr , EC Hildreth, WEL Grimson: A computational theory of human stereo vision, in: From the Retina to the Neocortex, Birkhäuser 1991, 263-295
- with Marr: Cooperative Computation of Stereo Disparity, AI Lab, MIT 1976
- with Shimon Edelman: A network that learns to recognize 3D objects, Nature, 343, 1990, 263-266
- with F. Girosi, M. Jones: Regularization theory and neural network architectures, Neural computation, 7, 1995, 219-269
- with Máximilian Riesenhuber : Hierarchical models of object recognition in cortex, Nature Neuroscience, 2, 1999, 1019-1025
- with V. Torre, C. Koch : Computational vision and regularization theory, Image Understanding, 3, 1989, 111
- with KK Sung: Example based learning for view-based human face detection, IEEE Transactions Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Volume 20, 1998, 39-51
- How people and computers see, spectrum of science, special edition Computer Systems (Ed. Jörg Siekmann ) 1989
Web links
- Homepage at MIT
- Interview, Siemens 2011
- Detailed interview with Lex Fridman (from: MIT course 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Poggio, Tomaso |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1947 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Genoa |