IU Bloomington Emerging Areas of Research program makes inaugural grant FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- Can machines learn to think like children? An interdisciplinary team of cognitive scientists, neuroscientists and computer scientists at Indiana University Bloomington has received the campus’s inaugural Emerging Areas of Research funding award to explore that question. Called “Learning: Brains, Machines and Children,” the first Emerging Areas of Research initiative is led by Linda Smith, Distinguished Professor and Chancellor’s Professor of psychological and brain sciences in the IU Bloomington College of Arts and Sciences. The research team will receive up to $3 million for the four-year project. [News Release] [Project Description] |