Intelligent and Adaptive Systems Seminar: Archives


This is the archive page for the Intelligent and Adaptive Systems seminar at Portland State University. This seminar is an informal weekly meeting of students, faculty, and others on topics related to artificial intelligence, machine learning, cognitive science, and complex adaptive systems. The seminar is coordinated by Professor Melanie Mitchell. If you would like to attend meetings or subscribe to the the mailing list for this seminar, e-mail Melanie.

Winter term, 2010

Friday January 8, 2010. TED videos.

Friday January 15, 2010. Jeff Hawking video.

Friday January 22, 2010. We will discuss D. George and J. Hawkins, Towards a mathematical theory of cortical micro-circuits

Friday January 29, 2010. Josh Hughes will present his recent work on contextual reinforcement learning.

Friday February 5, 2010. We will discuss the George and Hawkins paper on Hierarchical Temporal Memory.

Friday February 12, 2010. We will continue to discuss the paper on Hierarchical Temporal Memory.

Friday February 19, 2010. Will and Mick will give a practice talk on their paper for the upcoming CoSyNE conference.

Friday February 26, 2010. No meeting.

Friday March 5, 2010. No meeting.

Friday March 12, 2009. TBA

Fall term, 2009

Friday October 9, 2009. Matt Wesson, Sketch Recognition.

Friday October 16, 2009. Will Landecker, Mick Thomure, Karan Sharma and Melanie Mitchell, Update on our work on the Poggio Model of Vision

Friday October 23, 2009. Special seminar at 1:00pm: Liz Bradley, University of Colorado, Chaos in Computer Performance (FAB, Room 86-01)

Friday October 30, 2009. Melanie Mitchell will present Li et al., Towards Total Scene Understanding, and Murphy et al., Using the Forest to see the Trees

Friday November 6, 2009. Mick Thomure will present Unsupervised Learning of Visual Features through Spike Timing Dependent Plasticity

Friday November 13, 2009. No seminar

Friday November 20, 2009. Karan Sharma will present Textonboost for Image Understanding: Multi-Class Object Recognition and Segmentation by Jointly Modeling Appearance, Shape and Context

Friday November 27, 2009. No seminar; Happy Thanksgiving!

Friday December 4, 2009. No seminar

Friday December 11, 2009. Randy Myers, Music Cognition.

Spring term, 2009

Friday May 8, 2009. Dan Coates will present M. I. Chelaru and V. Dragoi, Efficient coding in heterogeneous neuronal populations

Friday May 15, 2009. No meeting; CS Department Research Proficiency Exams

Friday May 22, 2009. Christof Teuscher will present Q. Lu and C. Teuscher, Damage Spreading in Spatial and Small-world Random Boolean Networks

Friday May 29, 2009. Meeting will be at 12:30pm. Manuel Marques-Pita will present his recent research: "Conceptual structure and collective computation in cellular automata: An approach to filter coherent space-time structure in automata networks."

Friday June 5, 2009. Will Landecker will present C. Fox, ThomCat: A Bayesian Blackboard Model of Hierarchical Temporal Perception

Friday June 12, 2009. No meeting; finals week

Winter term, 2009

Friday January 16, 2009. Mick Thomure will tell us about his recent adventures at the NIPS workshop called "Beyond Search: Computational Intelligence for the Web".

Friday January 23, 2009. Melanie will present Rabinovich et al., Objects in Context

Friday January 30, 2009. Continued discussion of models of context in object recognition, and S. M. Bileschi, StreetScenes: Towards Scene Understanding in Still Images

Friday February 6, 2009. Ralf will present his recent work on "reconstructing functions with discontinuities from noisy data".

Friday February 13, 2009. Mark Bedau (Reed College Philosophy Dept.) and his students will present some of their recent artificial life work.

Friday February 20, 2009. No meeting.

Friday February 27, 2009. Payel will talk about wavelet-based texture segmentation.

Friday March 6, 2009. Karan will present his recent work on intelligence and creativity.

Friday March 13, 2009. Ralf will talk about his work.

Fall term, 2008

Friday October 10, 2008, 2pm. Will will present T. Serre, G. Kreiman, M. Kouh, C. Cadieu, U. Knoblich and T. Poggio. A quantitative theory of immediate visual recognition. In: Progress in Brain Research, Computational Neuroscience: Theoretical Insights into Brain Function, 165, pp. 33-56, 2007

Friday October 17, 2008, 2pm. Melanie and Martin will present various filtering methods for identifying "computational structures" in space-time patterns. The readings to be covered (in this and some future meetings) are: Friday October 24, 2008, 2pm, Mick will present D. Sanchez and A. Moreno, Pattern-based automatic taxonomy learning from the Web.

Friday October 31, 2008. No meeting.

Friday November 7, 2008. Manuel will present his work on conceptual structure in cellular automata. Suggested reading: Marques-Pita, M., Mitchell, M., and Rocha, L. (2008). The role of conceptual structure in designing cellular automata to perform collective computation. In Proceedings of the Conference on Unconventional Computation, UC 2008, Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

Friday November 14, 2008. No meeting.

Friday November 21, 2008. Karan will give us a brief tutorial on support vector machines, and will present a paper on using SVMs in computer vision: B. Heisele et al., Face Recognition: Component-based Versus Global Approaches.

Friday December 5, 2008. Dan Coates will give us a preview of his upcoming NIPS workshop talk on "Petavision" (the vision project he worked on at Los Alamos last summer).