[Colloquium] REMINDER: 10/14 Distinguished Lecture Series: Leslie Kaelbling, MIT

[Mary Marre via Colloquium]

*Distinguished Lecture Series:  Leslie Kaelbling, MIT*


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*Friday, October 14, 2016 at 11:00 am*

*Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago*

*6045 S. Kenwood Avenue*

*Room #526​/530*

*Leslie Kaelbling, PhD*

Panasonic Professor of Computer Science and Engineering

Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Massachusetts Institute of Technology



*homepage* <http://people.csail.mit.edu/lpk/>


*Title*: Intelligent Robots Redux



*Abstract*: The fields of AI and robotics have made great improvements in
many individual subfields, including in motion planning, symbolic planning,
probabilistic reasoning, perception, and learning.  Our goal is to develop
an integrated approach to solving very large problems that are hopelessly
intractable to solve optimally.  We make a number of approximations during
planning, including serializing subtasks, factoring distributions, and
determinizing stochastic dynamics, but regain robustness and effectiveness
through a continuous state-estimation and replanning process.  I will
describe our application of these ideas to an end-to-end mobile
manipulation system,  as well as ideas for current and future work on
improving correctness and efficiency through learning.



*Bio*:  Leslie is a Professor at MIT.  She has an undergraduate degree in
Philosophy and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, and was previously
on the faculty at Brown University.  She was the founding editor-in-chief
of the Journal of Machine Learning Research.  She is not a robot.



Host: Matthew Walter, mwalter at ttic.edu







Mary C. Marre
Administrative Assistant
*Toyota Technological Institute*
*6045 S. Kenwood Avenue*
*Room 504*
*Chicago, IL  60637*
*p:(773) 834-1757*
*f: (773) 357-6970*
*mmarre at ttic.edu <mmarre at ttic.edu>*
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