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an influentiを ■model of rccogni■ on in the visual cortex.

Eugenc McDcrlllott Professor
Dept.of Brdn alld Cognidve Sciences,
McGovern lnsitutc for Brain ResearchColllputer Scicncc alld Micial lntelligencc Lめ

Dr.Poggio characterized quantitativcly thc visuo‑1■ otor
con廿ol systcm in thc fly,deriving equations that could prcdictor■ o,(CSAIL)

Massachusetts lnstitute of Technology(MIT)Doctorate:Ph.D.h Tlleoretical Physics(U」 v.Of Gcnoa,1970)thC flyis tracking and fixation behavior(with Dr.W.
Reichardt)

He also modelcd tllc flyts neural circuitry underlying tlle
dctcction of inotion boundaries,connccting it to behaviour andphysiology, pioncc五 ng norlnalization cicuits, latcr uscd forDate of Birth:Scptcmbcr ll,1947

vlsual cortex.

Dr. Poggio characterized ncccssary lcvels of analysis in
Brlef Biography:
1970 Ph.D.in Theoreticd Physics,Univ.of Gcnoa
1971 Wisscnschaftlicher Assistant,Max Plank hstitut触Blologischc Kybcrnetik
1981 Associate Pro■ ,Dcpt.of Psychology and Artificid
lntelligence Laboratory,MIT

1984 Whitaker Prof.,Dept.of Brain&Cognitive
Scicnces and CSAIL,IIIT

Main Awards and Honors:
1979 0tto― Hahn― MedJ ofthc Max― Planck― Sociew

1990 Founding Fellow,American Association of
A■ ificial lntelligcncc

1992 Max Planck Research Award(With M.Fahle)
from the Alexandcr von Humboldt Foundation,
Bonn,Gerlllally

1997 MIT50K Entreprencurship Compctition Award,Imagcn(ad宙 SOr)
1997

Fello、 v,AInerican Acadcmy of Arts and Sciencescomputational neurosciencc and dcvcloped stereo algorithlns

which scrvcd as the primary modcl of stereopsis and as
exemplar for otllcr vision algo五 thns in thc icld(with Dr.D.
Ma→ .At thc biophysical level,Dr Poggio alld coworkers
pioneered models suggcsing that dend五 tic uces and synapscs

have a key computational role, a viev/ now rcceiving
cxpcnrnental confmlation. At thc lcvel of computation, Dr.

Poggio introduced rcgularization theory as a generalfralncwork to solve the ill―

posed problcms of vision.

His most cited Papcrs dcscribe seminal contributions tolc面 ng theory where Dr.Poggio dcvclopcd the mathematicsof Regulanzadon Nctworks.He applied learning tcchniqucs tobioinforlnatics,to computer graphics,computcr vision and toneuroscicncc c.g.to decryptthe neural codc in IT.
In the last decadc hc has worked on a hierarchical cxtcnsion oflcarning developing a fccdforward quantitative model of2000 Laurea Honoris Causa,Univcrsity of Pavia
2003 Gabor Award,Lltemadonal Neural Network Society

visual rccognition in the visual cortcx which has been a useful2009 Fcllow, AIncrican Association for theis consistcnt with human pcrforlnancc in rapid catego五Advanccmcnt of Science(AAAS)
Main Achievements:

tool to山 直vc and interpret scverd physiological experilnents,
zationand suggcsts novcl architectures to thc ficld of computcr
VlS10n,baSed on neurosclcncc of vlslon.

Tomaso Poggio rcccived his Doctor in Thcorctical Physics

In recognition of these achievcmcnts, Dr. Poggio is anhonorary mcmbcr of the Neuroscicncc Rcscarch Progranl, amember of thc Ame五 can Academy of Arts and Sciences, afrom the Univcrsity of Genoa in 1971 and was aFoundhg Fcllow of AAAI alld a Fcllow of thc American

Wisscnschaftlicher Assistant, Max Planck lnstitut fur

Association for tllc Advancement of Scicncc. Hc received

Biologische Kybcmetik,Gerlnally from 1972 until 1981 whenhc bccame Associatc Professor at ⅣIIT.Sincc 2000,Hc wasPlanck― Socict57,the Max Planck Rcscarch Award(With M

scr17cd as a membcr of thc faculty of the WIcGovcrn lnstitutc

for Braill Rcsearch.Hc is currcntly the Eugene McDerlllott
Professor at thc Department of Br滅 n alld Cognitive Sciences;
Co― Director, Center for Biological and Computational

scveral awards such as the Otto― HJヒ1‑Mcdal of thc Max―Fahle),frOm thc Alexander von Humboldt Foundation,theMIT 50K Entreprcncurship Competition Awttd,thc Laurca
Hono五 s Causa froln thc University of Pavia in 2000 and tllc
2003 Gabor Award.

Leaming and Mcmber of the Computcr Science and Artificid
lntelligence Laboratory at MIT.

Hc pionccred models of the flyts visual systcm and of humanstereovision, introduccd rcgularization theory tocomputational vision,Inadc key contributions to thc
biophysics of computation and to lcarning theow,deve10pcd

For outstanding contributions to the establishmcnt ofcomputational neurosciencc,and pioneering research ranging
from thc biophysical and bchavioral studies of tllc visualsystem to computational tlleo五es of vision and leanling inhumans and machines,1)r.Tomaso Poggio is hereby a、 varded
the Okawa Prlzc.

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