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, 2009

 

We will meet Tuesdays and Thursdays at 1pm in Kingsbury N223 - watch the AI group mailing list for details.  Meetings tend to last about an hour.  Tuesday meetings are on heuristic search, Thursdays are open topic.

 

on deck: aij anytime oversubscription, crikey, Akamai, no free lunch, Jerry Hobbs' recent work, or Cyc

 

7/21:

 

[ 7/9, 7/14, 7/16: no meetings due to SoCS and IJCAI ]

 

7/7:

 

7/2: ITSA* and ABULB (AAAI workshop, 2006)

 

6/30: model checking and planning

 

6/25: Holte's SoCS paper on common misconceptions

 

6/23: KRE

 

6/18: ternary trees

 

6/16: planning benchmarks (JAIR '05)

 

6/11: BitTorrent

 

6/9: estimating search tree size (AAAI-08)

 

6/4: Chord (IEEE/ACM Trans on Networking, 2003)

 

6/2: backtracking for #SAT and related problems (JAIR)

 

Spring, 2009 

 

We meet10am-11ish in Kingsbury N223. 

 

5/26: algorithm portfolios (AIJ 2001)

 

5/20:  multiple-goal search (JAIR)

 

5/19: spring party: laser tag 3-5pm

 

5/13: hybrid MDPs (IJCAI-05, JAIR version here)

 

5/6: project updates from folks in the group

 

[ 4/29: no meeting ]

 

4/22: meeting canceled in honor of ICAPS submission deadline

 

4/15: learning and beam search (ICML 07)

 

4/8: breaking value symmetry in CSPs (AAAI 08 nectar, longer version here)

 

4/1: general game playing (AAAI 08)

 

3/25: reach-based search on 2-d graphs (WEA-07)

 

[ 3/18 is during spring recess ]

 

3/11: mission planning for the DARPA urban challenge

 

3/4: external memory search (JACM, Dec 08)

 

2/25: frontier search (JACM, Sept 05)

 

2/18: heavy tails (Constraints journal, vol 11, originally CP-05)

 

2/11: the planner CPT (AIJ)

 

2/4: the LAMA planner, described in "Landmarks Revisited" (AAAI-08), available here.

 

[ 1/28: meeting canceled due to curtailed operations ]

 

1/21: target value search (STAIR-08)

 

Fall, 2008

 

This fall, we will focus on classic and `big-picture' papers in AI. For more technical papers in AI, focussing on algorithmic details, you are welcome to join the CS 980 class meetings.

 

12/8: Stuart Russell, Rationality and Intelligence

 

12/1: Hawes et al

 

11/24: Forbus, LBR

 

11/17: Agre: chapters 1, 13, 14

 

11/10: chapter 15 of Jurafsky and Martin

 

11/3: Lehnart Schubert and Bruce Porter

 

10/27: McCarthy, Programs with Common Sense and Hayes, Second Naive Physics Manifesto

 

10/20: first two chapers of Reasoning about Uncertainty, by Joe Halpern.

 

10/13: first two chapers of Probabilistic Robotics

 

10/6: STRIPS (see esp chapter 7 and 8)

 

9/29: GPS

 

Tues 9/23, 2pm: Newell and Simon, Symbols and Search

 

Fri 9/12, 11:40: Brooks, Intelligence without Representation

 

Fri 9/5, 11:40am: Turing's Mind paper (Mind, vol 59 no 236, Oct 1950; accessible on-line at JSTOR via the UNH library catalog - look for `electronic resource'). 

 

Previous meetings

 

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