Commonsense Summer Lectures 2008

Members of the Software Agents/Commonsense Computing groups will be presenting a series of lectures this Summer on Thursdays at 3:00pm. Everyone is welcome to attend!

Current Schedule

Date and TimeTopicSpeaker(s)Location
June 19thAnalogySpace and Divisi: Principal Component Analysis of OMCS and a toolkit for commonsense reasoning. (PDF Notes)Rob Speer, Ken Arnold, Catherine Havasi and Jason AlonsoRoth Room, Media Lab
June 26thIntroduction to Natural Language Processing (Slides)Rob Speer383, Media Lab
July 3rdSemantics: Problems and ResourcesCatherine Havasi383, Media Lab
July 10thRepresenting KnowledgeDustin Smith383, Media Lab
July 17thReflective DebuggingIan Eslick383, Media Lab

Future Topics

Here are possible future topics, the order and titles are tentative.

Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
(Rob)
Using ConceptNet
(Rob, Catherine, Ken, Jason, Dustin)
Mixture Models for Commonsense
(Dustin, Rob?)