<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE<div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Date: Monday, April 14, 2008</div><div>Time: 2:30 p.m.</div><div>Place: Ryerson 251, 1100 E. 58th Street</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>----------------------------------------------------------</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Speaker:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Jacob Beal</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>From:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>MIT</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Web page:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#144FAE"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://web.mit.edu/jakebeal/www/">http://web.mit.edu/jakebeal/www/</a></span></font></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>Title: Learning By Learning To Communicate</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>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.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>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.</div><p class="MsoNormal">---------------------------------------------------------</p><p class="MsoNormal">Host:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre; "> </span>Partha Niyogi</p></body></html>