ISI AI Seminars 

            Organized by Yolanda Gil (gil@isi.edu)

                      1995 Schedule


Jan 20  Ulrich Neumann, USC/CSD
(Fri)   "Immersive Interfaces: Technology and Applications"

Feb 7   Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley
(Tue)   "Probabilistic Networks vs. Neural Networks"

Feb 23  Kris Hammond, Univ. of Chicago
        "Planning and Memory"

Mar 3   Tom Dean, Brown University
(Fri)   "Discrete Dynamical Models for Planning and Learning" 

Mar 16  Nils Nilsson, Stanford University
        "Reacting, Planning, and Learning in an Autonomous Agent"

Apr 13  Brian Harp, USC/ISI
        "A FAST trip on the Information Highway: Dirt Roads and Six Lane Freeways"

Apr 27  David Wilkins, SRI
        "Planning and Reacting in Uncertain and Dynamic Environments"

May 25  Robert Wilensky, UC Berkeley
        "The Berkeley Environmental Digital Library Project"

Jun 16  Mike Georgeff, Australian AI Institute
(Fri)   "Agent-Oriented Systems: Essential Technology For Distributed 
         Time-Critical Applications"

Jun 19  Austin Tate and Brian Drabble, University of Edinburgh
(Mon)   "The O-Plan Architecture, the <I-N-OVA> Constraint Model of
         Plans and their Application to Logistics" 

Jun 29  Michael Kearns, AT&T Bell Laboratories
        "Learning from Statistical Queries"

Jul 20  Peter Stone, CMU
        "FLECS:  Planning with a Flexible Commitment Strategy"

Aug 10  Jim Hendler, University of Maryland
        "High Performance Support for Very Large Knowledge Bases"

Aug 17  Craig Knoblock, USC/ISI
        "Planning, Executing, Sensing, and Replanning for 
         Information Gathering"

Sep 5   Tom Dietterich, Oregon State University
(Tue)   "Why I Like Reinforcement Learning"

Sep 28  Lluis Vila, UC Irvine
        "Representing Time in AI:  First-Order Formalizations"

Oct 20  Steve Chien, JPL
        "Hierarchical Task Network and Operator-based Planning: 
         Competing or Complementary?"

Oct 26  Bing Leng and Wei-Min Shen, USC/ISI
(Thu)   "Unsupervised Learning of Relational Patterns"

Nov 2   Scott Huffman and David Steier, Price Waterhouse Technology Centre
(Thu)   "Towards an Information Integration Toolkit:
         Learning to Extract Information from Text"
         
Oct 31  Masazumi Yoshikawa, NEC Japan
(Thu)   "A Constraint-Based High-School Timetabling System"

Nov 17  Miling Tambe, USC/ISI
        "Agent Tracking"

Dec 1   Philip R. Cohen, Oregon Graduate Institute
        "Semantics for Agent Communication Languages"

Dec 7   Alon Levy, AT&T Bell Laboratories
(Th)    "Query Processing in the Information Manifold: Answering 
         Queries using Structured sources on the WWW"

Dec 13  B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State Univ.  
(Wed)   "Tasks, Methods and Knowledge: New Directions in 
         Generic Tasks

Dec 20  Avrim Blum, Carnegie Mellon University
(Wed)   "Graphplan: Fast Planning through Planning Graph Analysis"        


ISI AI Seminars will be held on Fridays at 10:30 am in the 
11th floor west-side conference room, unless otherwise indicated.