STatistical AI Reading Group

This group meets every other week to host a speaker, brainstorm about research in progress, or discuss a paper in the areas of statistical artificial intelligence and machine learning. Topics include:

Markov decision processes (RL, HMMs, POMDPs...)
multi-agent AI and stochastic games
stochastic control and optimization
statistical information retrieval
natural language processing
robotics and uncertainty
graphical models for object detection
first order probabilistic reasoning

... and whatever else strikes our fancy.
All are welcome!

web page: http://projects.csail.mit.edu/stair

mailing list: <stair-group@csail.mit.edu>
Subscribe here or email the stair-master.

organizer: Lawson Wong (lsw AT csail DOT mit DOT edu)

Fridays at 3:00pm
Stata Center, Gates 4th floor lounge

Current Semester:

This semester (Fall 2011), we will take a break from reading papers and instead hear about work-in-progress from LIS group members. Please check back next semester!