STatistical AI Reading Group previous readings: June-August, 2010

June 4 (Stairmaster: Leslie): John McCarthy.
Programs with Common Sense.
Teddington Conference on the Mechanization of Thought Processes (December, 1958).

John McCarthy.
Epistemological Problems of Artificial Intelligence.
IJCAI (1977).

June 25 (Stairmaster: David Silver): Brian Sheppard.
World-championship-caliber Scrabble.
Artificial Intelligence 134, p. 241-75 (2002).

July 23 (Stairmaster: Tomas): Earl D. Sacerdoti.
Planning in a Hierarchy of Abstraction Spaces.
IJCAI (1973).

Yoram Yakimovsky and Jerome A. Feldman.
A Semantics-Based Decision Theory Region Analyzer.
IJCAI (1973).

July 30 (Stairmaster: Lawson): Christopher Raphael
Music Plus One and Machine Learning.
ICML (2010).

Diane J. Hu and Lawrence K. Saul
A Probabilistic Model for Music Analysis.
NIPS Workshop on Applications for Topic Models: Text and Beyond (2009).

August 20 (Stairmaster: David Silver): Michael Buro.
From Simple Features to Sophisticated Evaluation Functions.
Computers and Games, Proceedings of GC98, LNCS 1558, p. 126-45 (1999).