[Colloquium] Reminder & Change: Distinguished Lecturer Yann LeCun, Tomorrow 5/18/06

[Katherine Cumming]

**********TTI-C Distinguished Lecturer***********
                                  May 18, 2006
        Presented by:  Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago
 
 
Speaker:  Yann LeCun,  New York University
Speaker’s home page:  http://yann.lecun.com/
 
Date: Thursday, May 18, 2006 
Location: Ryerson 251   Part of TTI-C Distinguished Lecturer Series
Time:  3:00 pm
***Change*** Refreshments to follow: Ryerson 153  
 
Title:   Supervised and Unsupervised Learning with Energy-Based Models
Abstract:
TBA
 
Biographical Sketch:
 
Yann LeCun received a Diplôme d'Ingénieur from the Ecole Superieure
d'Ingénieur en Electrotechnique et Electronique (ESIEE), Paris in 1983, a
Diplôme d'Etudes Approfondies (DEA) from Université Pierre et Marie Curie,
Paris in 1984, and a PhD in Computer Science from the same university in
1987.  His PhD thesis was entitled Modeles connexionnistes de
l'apprentissage" (connexionist learning models) and introduced an early
version of the back-propagation algorithm for gradient-based machine
learning.  He joined the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New
York University as a Professor of Computer Science in 2003. 
 
Yann LeCun is associate editor of Pattern Recognition and Applications.  He
was associate editor of the Machine Learning Journal 1996-1998, and of the
IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 1990-1991.  Since 1997, he has served
as general chair and organizer of the "Learning Workshop" held every year
since 1986 in Snowbird, Utah. 
 
He was plenary keynote speaker at CVPR 2000, gave tutorials talks at the
Newton Institute, Cambridge, 1997, ICPR 1994, the INRIA/CEA/EDF summer
school 1994, NIPS 1993, AAAI 1990, the Cold Spring Harbor Neuroscience
summer school 1990, Connectionism in Perspective, Zurich 1988, and the CMU
Connectionist summer schools 1988, and 1986.  He has given over 20 invited
talks at various international conferences and workshops. 
 
Yann LeCun has published over 90 technical papers and book chapters on
neural networks, machine learning, computer vision, pattern recognition,
handwriting recognition, image compression, document understanding, image
processing, VLSI design, and information theory.
 
 
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