Honors for Aaron Hyman, Daeyeol Lee, Ian Phillips, and Todd Shepard By Hub staff report / Published April 23, 2021
Aaron Hyman, an assistant professor in the Department of History of Art, has been awarded two grants to support publication of his book
Rubens in Repeat: The Logic of the Copy in Colonial Latin America (forthcoming in August, Getty Research Institute). The book received both the Historians of Netherlandish Art fellowship and a Wyeth Foundation for American Art Publication grant.
Daeyeol Lee, a Bloomberg Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and Psychological and Brain Sciences, has been awarded a Samsung Ho-Am Prize, one of the highest honors for Korean individuals or those of Korean origin. The prize is presented annually in six categories to people who have contributed to academics, the arts, and social development, or who have furthered the welfare of humanity through distinguished accomplishments in their respective
Johns Hopkins neuroscientist Daeyeol Lee s new book explores the definition of true intelligence By Katie Pearce / Published Winter 2020
Daeyeol Lee is not concerned about artificial intelligence surpassing that of human beings the hypothetical event known as technological singularity anytime in our life spans. As the Johns Hopkins neuroscientist sees it, true intelligence requires life, and AI doesn t have that. Bacteria do. Plants do. Machines do not.
In fact, he says, the debate over whether AI can develop real intelligence is meaningless until we first define what intelligence is.
Image credit: Courtesy of Daeyeol Lee
Lee s new book,
The Birth of Intelligence (Oxford University Press, 2020), sets out with that purpose. Drawing the latest insights from neuroscience, along with bits of biology, psychology, economics, computer science, and even philosophy, the book offers a sweeping review of the evolution of intelligence, f