[Colloquium] Reminder Correction: Jacob Beal Talk Today
Katie Casey
caseyk at cs.uchicago.edu
Mon Apr 7 08:37:31 CDT 2008
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Date: Monday, April 7, 2008
Time: 2:30 p.m.
Place: Ryerson 251, 1100 E. 58th Street
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Speaker: Jacob Beal
From: MIT
Web page: http://web.mit.edu/jakebeal/www/
Title: Learning By Learning To Communicate
Abstract: Human intelligence appears to be a product of cooperation
among many specialists. I show how a system of specialists can capture
cross-specialist knowledge through a struggle to agree on signals for
communicating with one another. This process of "learning by learning
to communicate" may help to explain how humans develop our unique
capacity for the "high-level" agile cooperation that permeates our
daily lives.
I have created mechanisms for signal agreement that exploit the
phenomenon of "communication bootstrapping," in which shared
experiences form a basis for agreement on a system of signals. These
mechanisms are demonstrated using a vision specialist and a hearing
specialist that jointly observe a simulated four-way intersection. As
they agree on signals, the two specialists capture some dynamics of
the simulation as differences in how they interpret these signals.
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Host: Partha Niyogi
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