AI Seminar 2004/2005

This is the home page for the AI Seminar at School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University.

To volunteer to give an AI seminar or to nominate an outside speaker, contact Prof. Jack Mostow.

The administrative contact for travel arrangements, scheduling, etc. (except where listed below) is Virginia Arrington (tel. 412-268-8126, office NSH 4219)

Mailing List

The mailing list for announcing upcoming AI seminars is on the SCS mailman server. You can subscribe/unsubscribe from that page. Only the list administrators may post to the list.

Schedule

Normally Tuesdays, 3:30-4:30, Wean Hall 5409.

Special AI seminars can be arranged at other times when necessary, provided the host can reserve a suitable room (which can be hard!).

Date	Speaker	Affiliation	Host	Title	Notes
Oct 19, 2004	David Andre	BodyMedia	Manuela Veloso	BodyMedia -- A company built around machine learning: challenges, opportunities, and observations	Contact Norene Mears for appointments
Oct 26, 2004	Mark Craven	University of Wisconsin	Tom Mitchell	Machine Learning Applied to Uncovering Bacterial Gene Regulation	Contact Sharon Woodside for appointments
Nov 2, 2004	Tong Zhang	IBM TJ Watson	Yiming Yang	A Framework for Learning Functional Structures from Multiple Tasks and Unlabeled Data	Contact Jill Lentz for appointments
Nov 9, 2004	Elizabeth Sklar	Columbia	Jack Mostow	SimEd: education as a multiagent simulation	Contact Janice Brochetti for appointments
Friday, Nov 12, 2004 10am	Judea Pearl	UCLA	Jack Mostow	Reasoning With Cause And Effect	Location: NSH 3305; Note also special time! No time for appointments
Friday, Nov 19, 2004 11am	Ronald Parr	Duke	Carlos Guestrin	DP-SLAM: Mapping Dense Environments with Speed and Precision	Location: NSH 1305; Note also special time! Contact Monica Hopes for appointments
Dec 7, 2004	Jeffrey Cohn	University of Pittsburgh	Jack Mostow	Machine Analysis of Emotion Expression and Paralinguistic Communication	Contact Virginia Arrington for appointments
Jan 11, 2005	Milind Tambe	University of Sourthern California	Jack Mostow	Agent Teamwork: From Belief-Desire-Intentions to POMDPs and Back	Contact Virginia Arrington for appointments
Jan 18, 2005	Robert Schapire	Princeton	Avrim Blum	A Maximum Entropy Approach to Species Distribution Modeling	Contact Virginia Arrington for appointments
Jan 25, 2005	Michael Littman	Rutgers University	Drew Bagnell	Advances in Model-based Reinforcement Learning or Q-learning Considered Harmful	Contact Heather Farah for appointments
Wed, Mar 23, 2005, 3pm, NSH 3305	Stuart Russell	Computer Science Division, UC Berkeley	Tom Mitchell	Uncertainty in an Unknown World	Note special date/time/location! Contact Sharon Woodside for appointments
Mar 29, 2005	David Aha	Intelligent Decision Aids Group, Naval Research Laboratory	Joe Giampapa	Generative Ontologies for Knowledge Extraction from Text	Contact Marliese Bonk for appointments
April 12, 2005	Ben Taskar	UC Berkeley	Carlos Guestrin	A Large-Margin Framework for Learning Structured Prediction Models	Contact Monica Hopes for appointments
April 19, 2005	Chris Welty	IBM Watson Research Center	Katia Sycara	Information Extraction to Knowledge Representation	Contact both Marliese Bonk and Eleanor Cambridge for appointments
May 10, 2005	Steve Chien	NASA JPL	Stephen Smith	Agents in Space: The Autonomous Sciencecraft on EO-1	Contact Marliese Bonk for appointments
Thursday, May 12, 2005, 3pm (NOT 3:30!), NSH 1507	Mike Bowling	University of Alberta	Manuela Veloso	Subjective Maps	Contact Norene Mears for appointments. Note special date/time/room!
Monday, May 23, 2005, 1pm in Wean 4623	Richard Caruana	Cornell University	Christos Faloutsos	Which Supervised Learning Method Works Best For What? An Empirical Comparison of Ten Learning Algorithms	Contact Denny Marous for appointments. Note special time/room!
Tuesday, May 24, 2005, 10:30am in NSH 1305	Ben Grosof	MIT Sloan Information Technologies group	Norman Sadeh-Koniecpol	Semantic Web Rules for E-Services Knowledge Management	Contact Jennifer Lucas for appointments. Note special time/room!

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