In Summer 2008, our meetings are on Tuesdays (research) and Thursdays (general AI topics) from 1-2pm in Kingsbury N233.

 

Please bring your own printed copy of any paper or handout. If you are new to this kind of thing, you might want to read How to Read a Paper.

 

Summer, 2008

 

topics on deck:

• TD-gammon
• Kalman filtering

 

8/7: Russell's ICAPS-07 paper on hierarchical planning with angelic semantics

 

8/5: ECAI paper on learning admissible heuristics

 

7/31: Allen's end-of-summer presentation

 

7/29: IJCAI-91 paper on weighted A*

 

7/24: SLAM for Dummies

 

7/22: Jordan and Wheeler give AAAI trip report

 

7/15 and 17: no meeting (Jordan and Wheeler at AAAI)

 

7/10: heuristic search with bounded suboptimality. Jordan will give his STAIR-08 talk

 

7/8: UCT. Bonus paper: UCT for Go

 

7/3: auctions, voting, and preferences

 

7/1: Allen

 

6/26: Stuart Russell's 1995 talk on Rationality and Intelligence

 

6/24: Adaptive probing (IJCAI-01)

 

6/19: STAGE (from AAAI)

 

6/17: AlphA*

 

6/12: the FF planner from JAIR, 2001

 

6/10: solution-guided multi-point search from JAIR, 2007

 

6/5: logics of knowledge

 

6/3: Ae from IJCAI-83. a poor copy is here or see Wheeler for a photocopy of the original

 

5/29: an early neural net application: NetTalk

 

Spring, 2008

 

5/20, 5-8: end of semester party

 

[no meeting 5/12 - Wheeler away]

 

5/5: SATzilla from CP-07

 

4/28: anticipatory planning for stochastic domains from AAAI-08

 

4/21: The ParamILS method for tuning algorithm parameters, from AAAI-07.

 

4/14: Solving max k-armed bandit problems from CP-06

 

4/7 (special time: 2-3pm): Labeled RTDP from ICAPS-03

 

3/31: LRTA* (official page here)

 

3/24: updates

 

3/10: Absolver 2 - fulltext link might only work within UNH

 

3/3: yes! - last day of Holte.

 

2/25: are we there yet? (more Holte)

 

2/18: all Holte, all the time!

 

2/11: start making our way through Rob Holte's search tutorial

 

2/4: the paper that launched a subfield: Hart, Nilsson, and Raphael, 1968. Part 1 and Part 2 (note that the pages are in reverse order)

 

1/28: long updates

 

 

Fall, 2007

 

12/24-1/21: winter break - no scheduled group meetings

 

12/19, 5:40pm (note special date and location and new time)

• end of semester party

 

12/10

• hierarchical A*, from SARA-05
• Sub-optimal Heuristic Search Presentation @ 3:00pm in N111

 

12/3: K-BFS, from Annals of Math and AI, 2003

 

11/26: breadth-first heuristic search, from ICAPS-04. There's also an AIJ version

 

11/19: Jake and Austin

 

11/13 (follows a Monday schedule)

• urban challenge results
• Jordan

 

11/5: field trip to Jonathan Schaeffer talk at Harvard

 

10/29: Wheeler and Austin on search under a deadline

 

10/22; pessimistic heuristics, from ECAI 06

 

10/16 at 11am (note unusual date/time): How Good is Almost Perfect, from ICAPS-07.

 

10/8/07: Limited Discrepancy beam Search from IJCAI-05.

 

10/1/07: introductions

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