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AI Seminar
Thu, Mar 13, 2014 @ 10:30 AM - 11:30 PM
Information Sciences Institute
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Leslie Pack Kaelbling, MIT CSAIL
Talk Title: Making Robots Behave
Abstract: The fields of AI and robotics have made great improvements in many individual
subfields, including in motion planning, symbolic planning, probabilistic
reasoning, perception, and learning. Our goal is to develop an integrated
approach to solving very large problems that are hopelessly intractable to
solve optimally. We make a number of approximations during planning,
including serializing subtasks, factoring distributions, and determinizing
stochastic dynamics, but regain robustness and effectiveness through a
continuous state-estimation and replanning process. This approach is
demonstrated in three robotic domains, each of which integrates perception,
estimation, planning, and manipulation.
Biography: Leslie Pack Kaelbling is the Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and
Engineering
at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has made research
contributions to decision-making under uncertainty, learning, and
sensing with applications to robotics, with a particular focus on
reinforcement learning and planning in partially observable domains.
She holds an A.B in Philosophy and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from
Stanford University, and has had research positions at SRI
International and Teleos Research and a faculty position at Brown
University. She is the recipient of the US National Science
Foundation Presidential Faculty Fellowship, the IJCAI Computers and
Thought Award, and several teaching prizes and has been elected a
fellow of the AAAI. She was the founder and editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Machine Learning Research.
Host: Yu-han Chang
More Info: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=65e56103c0124c70aba0b19994a913c61d
Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th floor conference room
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Kary LAU
Event Link: http://webcasterms1.isi.edu/mediasite/Viewer/?peid=65e56103c0124c70aba0b19994a913c61d
