AI Seminar 2004/2005

Faculty coordinator: Dr. Jack Mostow
Grad student coordinator: Patrick Riley

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 Patrick Riley and Dr. 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 for visitors on dates other than Tuesdays.

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	TBA	Contact Heather Farah for appointments
Mar 1, 2005	Ivon Arroyo	University of Massachusetts Amherst	Joe Beck	TBA
Mar 8, 2005	David Aha	Intelligent Decision Aids Group, Naval Research Laboratory	Joe Giampapa	Generative Ontologies for Knowledge Extraction from Text
TBA	Chris Welty	IBM Watson Research Center	Katia Sycara	TBA

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