Agenda
Thursday August 15, 2002
8:30 am Breakfast Courtyard outside 306 Soda Hall
9:00 am

Welcome & Introduction to EECS
Shankar Sastry, EECS Chair

306 Soda Hall
9:15 am

Center for Intelligent Systems (CIS) Overview
Director Stuart Russell

306 Soda Hall
9:35 am

Keynote: Developing Cognitive Systems
Ron Brachman, Director, IPTO

306 Soda Hall
10:20 am Break
10:50 am From Images to Objects, People and Activities
Jitendra Malik
306 Soda Hall
11:25 am Words, Pictures & People
David Forsyth
306 Soda Hall
12:00 pm LUNCH, with Poster Session Wozniak Lounge (430 Soda Hall)
2:00 pm Open Problems in Speech Recognition (abstract)
Nelson Morgan
306 Soda Hall
2:30 pm Graphical Models for Pattern Recognition and Probabilistic Reasoning
Michael Jordan
306 Soda Hall
3:00 pm From Data to Knowledge
Stuart Russell
306 Soda Hall
3:30 pm Break
4:00 pm Digital Libraries: Re-inventing Scholarly Information Dissemination and Use
Robert Wilensky
306 Soda Hall
4:30 pm

Embodied Language Understanding (abstract)
Jerome Feldman and Srini Narayanan

306 Soda Hall

5:00 pm

 

 

Panel: Information, Reasoning, and Awareness
Tom Armour (DARPA IAO)
Ron Kohavi (Blue Martini)
R.V. Guha (Alpiri)
Peter Norvig (Google)
John Prange (ARDA)
306 Soda Hall
6:30 pm CIS Dinner for faculty and visitors Women's Faculty Club
Dining Room
Friday August 16, 2002
8:30 am Breakfast Courtyard outside 306 Soda Hall
9:00 am Intelligent Systems Work at NSF
Peter Freeman, Director, NSF CISE
306 Soda Hall
9:20 am Research on Flying Robots at UC Berkeley
Shankar Sastry
306 Soda Hall
9:50 am Millirobotics for Remote Sensing and Presence (abstract)
Ron Fearing
306 Soda Hall
10:20 am Break 306 Soda Hall
10:50 am Making Silicon Walk (abstract)
Kris Pister
306 Soda Hall

11:20 am

 

 

Panel: Autonomy
Moderated by Shankar Sastry

Daniel Clancy (NASA)
Rakesh Gupta (Honda)
Mark Swinson (Sandia Labs)

306 Soda Hall

 

 

12:00 pm LUNCH Wozniak Lounge (430 Soda Hall)
1:30 pm Kernel Methods in Supervised and Unsupervised Learning
Michael Jordan
306 Soda Hall
2:00 pm Optimization and Control vs Statistics : Merge or Fail? (abstract)
Laurent El Ghaoui, Optimization Research Group
306 Soda Hall
2:30 pm Statistical Learning: pattern classification, prediction and control (abstract)
Peter Bartlett
306 Soda Hall
3:00 pm

Adaptive Intelligent Agents
Stuart Russell

306 Soda Hall
3:30 pm Break

4:00 pm

 

 

 

Panel: The Future of Intelligent Systems
Moderated by Stuart Russell

Peter Freeman (NSF CISE)
Eric Horvitz (Microsoft)
Lotfi Zadeh (UC Berkeley)
Michael Jordan (UC Berkeley)

306 Soda Hall

 

 

 

4:45 pm Closing remarks 306 Soda Hall

6:00 PM

 

Optional Dinner:
For Participants staying Friday evening and Faculty

Lalimes Restaurant
1329 Gilman Street Berkeley, CA
(510) 527 9838