AI Seminar 2005/2006

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. Only the list administrators may post to the list.

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Schedule

Normally Tuesday, 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!).

Some related seminars of likely interest to AI seminar attendees are listed below in italics.

Date	Room	Speaker	Affiliation	Title	Faculty host	Contact	Notes
3:30pm, Thurs., Aug. 11	NSH 3305	Sven Koenig	USC	The Auction Robot Project	Geoff Gordon	Monica Hopes	Non-standard day and room
4:30 Mon., Nov. 14	A53 Baker Hall	*Ann Lee*		Geometric tools for high-dimensional data analysis			*CALD Seminar*
Noon Mon., Nov. 21	Wean 5409	*Elad Yom-Tov*		Learning to Estimate Query Difficulty			*CALD Seminar*
1:30pm, Mon., Nov. 21	NSH 1507	Tom Dean	Brown University	Scalable Inference in Hierarchical Models of the Neocortex		Sharon Cavlovich	*CALD Seminar*
10:30 Wed., Nov. 30	NSH 3002	Craig Boutilier	University of Toronto	Preference Elicitation in Constraint-based Decision Problems	Carlos Guestrin	Monica Hopes	Non-standard day and room
3:30pm Tue., Dec. 13	Wean 5409	Lee Giles	Pennsylvania State University	Next Generation CiteSeer	William Cohen	Sharon Cavlovich
3:30pm Tue., Jan. 17	Wean 5409	Avi Pfeffer	Harvard University	Representations and Algorithms for Monitoring Dynamic Systems	Manuela Veloso	Virginia Arrington
3:30pm Tue., Jan. 24	Wean 5409	Tommi Jaakkola	MIT	Game theory, biology, and the binding game	Carlos Guestrin	Monica Hopes
3:30pm Tue., Jan. 31	Wean 5409	Sam Roweis	University of Toronto	A New Look at Basic Classifiers	Andrew Moore	Kristen Schrauder
3:30pm Tue., Feb. 14	Wean 7500	Tom Dietterich	Oregon State University	TaskTracer: Toward a Task-Oriented Desktop Interface	William Cohen	Sharon Cavlovich	Non-standard room
3:30pm Tue., Feb. 21	Wean 5409	Michael Genesereth	Stanford University	General Game Playing	Illah Nourbakhsh	Kristen Schrauder
3:30pm Tue., Feb. 28	Wean 5409	Partha Niyogi	University of Chicago	A Geometric Perspective on Learning Theory and Algorithms	Lenore Blum	Amelia Williams
3pm, Mon. July 10th	Wean 7220	Michael Bowling	University of Alberta	Incremental Least-Squares Temporal Difference Learning	Manuela Veloso	April Foster	Non-standard room and time.

AI Seminar 2005/2006

Mailing List

Schedule

TaskTracer: Toward a Task-Oriented Desktop Interface

General Game Playing

A Geometric Perspective on Learning Theory and Algorithms

Incremental Least-Squares Temporal Difference Learning

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