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Events for May 26, 2006
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Meet USC (AM session)
Fri, May 26, 2006 @ 09:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Admission & Student Affairs
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Meet USC (PM session)
Fri, May 26, 2006 @ 12:00 PM - 03:00 PM
Viterbi School of Engineering Undergraduate Admission
Workshops & Infosessions
This half day program is designed for prospective freshmen and family members. Meet USC includes an information session on the University and the Admission process; a student led walking tour of campus and a meeting with us in the Viterbi School. Meet USC is designed to answer all of your questions about USC, the application process and financial aid.Reservations are required for Meet USC. Please call the USC Admission Center at (213) 740-6616 to check availability and to make an appointment. Be sure to tell them you are interested in Engineering!
Location: USC Admission Center
Audiences: Prospective Freshman and Family Members - RESERVATIONS REQUIRED
Contact: Admission & Student Affairs
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CS Colloquium Series
Fri, May 26, 2006 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Paul Scerri (CMU)
Host: Prof. Milind TambeColloquia Page: http://enl.usc.edu/colloq/ Refreshments will be served.Title: Towards Practical Heterogeneous TeamsAbstract:
The process of taking well developed theories of teamwork and creating large, practical, heterogeneous teams has revealed new challenges requiring novel solutions. In this talk, I will discuss some of the challenges and the solutions we have developed. Specifically, I will focus on the use of /tokens/ as an abstraction for scalable and robust coordination algorithms. Tokens encapsulate both information and control, thus allowing agents to make local decisions that are likely to lead to good global behavior. A key to many of our scalable coordination algorithms is that locally improbable events become highly likely on a large scale. These algorithms often use orders of magnitude less communication than optimal approaches while performing almost as well. I will also discuss some of the additional algorithms, e.g., meta-reasoning, that are useful for practical environments. Finally, I will describe applications of the approach to a variety of projects and open issues raised by specific projects.Bio:
Paul Scerri is a Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. Since 1997, when his RoboCup football simulation team won a game at the first world championships, Paul has been dedicated to building bigger and better teams (because his team also lost two games and he is very competitive). Currently, much of his focus is on heterogeneous teams with a mixture of robots, agents and people. His thesis work, conducted at Linkoping University and USC, and post-doctoral work at USC, looked specifically at how humans and agents can flexibly work together, transferring control in a way that maximizes overall team reward. Since then, he has been trying to make bigger and bigger teams for a variety of domains. Most recently Paul has been building heterogeneous teams of unmanned aerial vehicles which isn't half as much fun as RoboCup soccer, but uses many of the same algorithms and makes for some really cool demos.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
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CS Colloquium Series
Fri, May 26, 2006 @ 03:00 PM - 04:30 PM
Thomas Lord Department of Computer Science
Conferences, Lectures, & Seminars
Speaker: Dr. Paul Scerri (CMU)Host: Prof. Milind TambeColloquia Page: http://enl.usc.edu/colloq/ Refreshments will be served.Title: Towards Practical Heterogeneous TeamsAbstract:
The process of taking well developed theories of teamwork and creating large, practical, heterogeneous teams has revealed new challenges requiring novel solutions. In this talk, I will discuss some of the challenges and the solutions we have developed. Specifically, I will focus on the use of /tokens/ as an abstraction for scalable and robust coordination algorithms. Tokens encapsulate both information and control, thus allowing agents to make local decisions that are likely to lead to good global behavior. A key to many of our scalable coordination algorithms is that locally improbable events become highly likely on a large scale. These algorithms often use orders of magnitude less communication than optimal approaches while performing almost as well. I will also discuss some of the additional algorithms, e.g., meta-reasoning, that are useful for practical environments. Finally, I will describe applications of the approach to a variety of projects and open issues raised by specific projects.Bio:
Paul Scerri is a Systems Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. Since 1997, when his RoboCup football simulation team won a game at the first world championships, Paul has been dedicated to building bigger and better teams (because his team also lost two games and he is very competitive). Currently, much of his focus is on heterogeneous teams with a mixture of robots, agents and people. His thesis work, conducted at Linkoping University and USC, and post-doctoral work at USC, looked specifically at how humans and agents can flexibly work together, transferring control in a way that maximizes overall team reward. Since then, he has been trying to make bigger and bigger teams for a variety of domains. Most recently Paul has been building heterogeneous teams of unmanned aerial vehicles which isn't half as much fun as RoboCup soccer, but uses many of the same algorithms and makes for some really cool demos.
Location: Seaver Science Library (SSL) - 150
Audiences: Everyone Is Invited
Contact: Nancy Levien
