STatistical AI Reading Group previous readings: June-August, 2001

June 12, 2001 (SPECIAL LOCATION NE43-518):
Special STAIR session: Michael Littman will visit and speak about his recent work on game theory.
June 21, 2001: called because of general life panic
June 28, 2001: overlaps with ICML. Instead, we're advocating:
June 25, 2001: special STAIR outing
Boston University CS Colloquium: Marcus Hutter on "Towards a Universal Theory of Artificial Intelligence based on Algorithmic Probability and Sequential Decision Theory". Full announcement.
Aug 14, 2001: special STAIR outing
Christian Shelton's thesis defense: "Importance Sampling for Reinforcement Learning with Multiple Objectives". 3:00PM, NE43-941.
Aug 16, 2001: (STAIRmaster: Terran)
Carlos Guestrin and Dirk Ormoneit, "Robust Combination of Local Controllers," 17th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence (UAI-01) pp 178--185, Seattle, Washington, August 2001. PostScript
Aug 23, 2001 (STAIRmaster: Leslie):
R. I. Brafman and M. Tennenholtz, "R-Max -- A General Polynomial Time Algorithm for Near-Optimal Reinforcement Learning". This paper is not available online at the moment -- contact Terran for a copy.
Aug 30, 2001 (STAIRmaster: Luke):
Littman, M.L., Sutton, R.S., and Singh, S. "Predictive Representations of State." Under review. PDF.