About the Seminar

School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University

The meetings are on Tuesdays at 3:30pm, in Gates-Hillman 4303, except when listed otherwise for specific talks.

Eugene coordinates the seminar. If you would like to give a talk or nominate an outside speaker, please contact him. Dana is the administrative contact for travel arrangements and scheduling, except when listed otherwise. The seminar mailing list is on the SCS mailman server. You can subscribe to the list and unsubsribe from it, but only the administrators can use it to send messages.

Past Schedule

Date              Speaker Affiliation Title                            Host Contact Notes
December 7, 2010
GHC 4303
Craig Boutilier University of Toronto Computational Social Choice: A Decision-Theoretic Perspective Tuomas Sandholm Charlotte Yano
February 8, 2011
GHC 4405
Eugene Charniak Brown University Top-Down Nearly-Context-Sensitive Parsing Noah Smith Dana Houston Unusual time: 1:30pm
February 15, 2011
GHC 4303
Robin Hanson George Mason University The Potential of Prediction Markets Tuomas Sandholm Charlotte Yano
February 22, 2011
GHC 4303
Bart Selman Cornell University Going Beyond NP: New Challenges in Inference Technology Tuomas Sandholm Charlotte Yano
March 29, 2011
GHC 4405
Hal Daumé III University of Maryland Structure and Knowledge in Natural Language Processing Noah Smith Stacey Young Unusual time: 1:30pm
April 5, 2011
GHC 4303
Elad Yom-Tov Yahoo Research On the Effect of Social and Physical Detachment on Information Need Donald McGillen Donald McGillen
April 12, 2011
GHC 4303
Matthew Salganik Princeton University Wiki Surveys: Open, Adaptive, and Quantifiable Social Data Collection Burr Settles Cathy Serventi
April 26, 2011
GHC 4303
Satinder Singh University of Michigan, Ann Arbor The Optimal Reward Problem Tuomas Sandholm Charlotte Yano
June 7, 2011
GHC 4303
Brian Murphy University of Trento Gounding Models of Language in the Brain Bob Frederking Stacey Young
September 20, 2011
GHC 4303
Daniel Tunkelang LinkedIn Keeping It Professional: Relevance, Recommendations, and Reputation at LinkedIn Eugene Fink Dana Houston
November 1, 2011
GHC 4303
David Pennock Yahoo Research Mechanism Design for Prediction Ariel Procaccia Gayle Bishop
November 8, 2011
GHC 4405
Vincent Conitzer Duke University Computing Game-Theoretic Solutions for Security Ariel Procaccia Gayle Bishop Unusual time: 2:00pm
November 15, 2011
GHC 4303
Mark Dredze Johns Hopkins University Topic Models for Mining Public Health Information from Twitter Carolyn Penstein Rosé Dana Houston
November 29, 2011
GHC 4303
Gerry Tesauro IBM Research How Watson Learns Superhuman Jeopardy! Strategies Burr Settles Dana Houston
January 16, 2012
GHC 4405
Andreas Krause Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Sequential Decision Making in Experimental Design and Computational Sustainability via Adaptive Submodularity Carlos Guestrin Michelle Martin Unusual day: Monday 3:30pm
March 20, 2012
3:30 P.M.
GHC 4303
Gal Kaminka Bar Ilan University Reusable Teamwork for Multi-Robot Teams Manuela Veloso Dana Houston
April 23, 2012
10:30 A.M.
GHC 6501
Paul Rosenbloom University of Southern California Towards a Graphical Cognitive Architecture for Virtual Humans (and Intelligent Agents/Robots) Philip Lehman June Fischerkeller Unusual day: Monday 10:30am
April 24, 2012
3:30 P.M.
GHC 4303
Kevin Leyton-Brown University of British Columbia Beyond Equilibrium: Predicting Human Behavior in Normal Form Games Ariel Procaccia Dana Houston

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