[Colloquium] Date Change: Talk by Jacob Beal, MIT on April 7, 2008

[Katie Casey]

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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