1 * David A. Mindell PhD '96, Chair, MIT150 Steering Committee; Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing and of Aeronautics and Astronautics; Head, Program in Science, Technology, and Society, MIT
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Marc A. Kastner, Donner Professor of Science; Dean, MIT School of Science
* Tomaso A. Poggio, Eugene McDermott Professor in the Brain Sciences; Founding Member, McGovern Institute for Brain Research; Principal Investigator, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory; Co-director, Center for Biological and Computational Learning, MIT (speaking on behalf of symposium organizers: I. Heim, J. Tenenbaum, and T. Poggio)