[Cs-female-staff] Feb 5: Lunch with Leslie Pack Kaebling

[Kate Larson]

Hello

This is a reminder that this Thursday ( Feb 5) WICS is hosting a lunch 
with Leslie Pack Kaebling from MIT to which you are all invited. The 
lunch will be in the Fishbowl, running from 12-2.
She will also be giving a Distinguished Lecture later in the afternoon, 
details of which I have provided below.
I look forward to seeing you all there,

Best,

Kate


SPEAKER: *Leslie Pack Kaelbling*
                   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
TITLE: *Making Robots Behave*
DATE:        Thursday February 5, 2015
TIME: *3:30 - 4:30  p.m.*
ROOM:      DC 1302

https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/distinguished-lecture-series

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*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 served for ten years as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of 
Machine Learning Research.



-- 
Kate Larson

Associate Professor
Cheriton School of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, ON, N2L 3G1
Canada

phone:  519 888 4567 ext. 37760
email: klarson at uwaterloo.ca

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