I was very privileged to meet both Prof. Winston and Prof. Josh Tenenbaum briefly a couple of years ago. This brought home to me the plurality and strength of t

I was very privileged to meet both Prof. Winston and Prof. Josh Tenenbaum briefly a couple of years ago. This brought home to me the plurality and strength of the MIT faculty. There are many amazing people at CSAIL, some of them are focused on specific issues of engineering, maths or neuroscience, but there are still a core of people (Prof. Tenenbaum is not alone in this) who I think are looking very widely and deeply at fundamental issues of cognition and mind.