Seminar on Computational Learning and Adaptation


Schedule for Winter Quarter 1999

Date Topic Speaker
January 7, 1999 Open discussion about issues in computational learning and adaptation  
 
January 14, 1999 The Matching Representation for Tree Structures and  
its Applications to Tree-based Classifiers
Susan Holmes
Department of Statistics 
Stanford University
January 21, 1999 Probability-Based Metrics for Nearest-Neighbor Algorithms Enrico Blanzieri
Istituto per la Ricerca  
Scientifica Tecnologica 
Povo Trento, Italy
January 28, 1999 Data Structures for Efficient Learning Steve Omohundro
Independent Contractor 
Palo Alto
February 4, 1999 Applying the Minimum Description Length Principle  
to General Model Classes and Error Measures
Peter Grünwald
Robotics Laboratory 
Stanford University
February 11, 1999 No seminar   (Learning talk at NOBOTS, Wed. Feb. 10, 1pm)  
 
February 18, 1999 Category Learning through Multi-Modality Sensing Virginia de Sa 
Sloan Center for Theoretical Neurobiology 
UC San Francisco
February 26, 1999 
Friday , 12:15pm
Automatic Knowledge Acquisition Using Learning by Observation 
(part of the CSLI Distinguished Lecture Series in Cognitive Science)
John Laird
Dept .of EE & Computer Science 
University of MIchigan
March 4, 1999 
Gates 104
Remembrance of Things Past 
(joint session with the AI-Vision-Robotics Colloquium)
Leslie Kaelbling 
Dept. of Computer Science 
Brown University
March 11, 1999 Average-Case Analyses of Induction Pat Langley and Wayne Iba
Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise
Palo Alto, California

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