2002 Colloquium Series
2002 Fall Semester
September 20Robert Schapire, AT&T Labs
Recent work on Boosting
September 27
Josh Tenenbaum, MIT
Bayesian models of human learning and reasoning
October 18
Lawrence Saul, University of Pennsylvania
Think Globally, Fit Locally: Unsupervised Learning of Nonlinear Manifolds
October 25
Michael Tarr, Brown University
It's Pat! Sexing faces using only red and green
November 1
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania
Starting with complex primitives pays off: complicate locally, simplify globally
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November 8
Marc Sageman, University of Pennsylvania
Escape from Alienation: Drifting into al-Qaeda
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November 15
Alan Gilchrist, Rutgers University
Computation of lightness in simple and complex retinal images
November 22
Sebastian Seung, MIT
Rescheduled on October 10, 2003
December 6
David Plaut, Carnegie Mellon University
IRCS Short Term Visitor
How Important is Starting Small in Language Acquisition?
December 13
George Lakoff, University of California, Berkeley
Metaphorical Thought and Language Interactions with the Major Mechanisms of Thought
2002 Spring Semester
January 18Vijay Balasubramanian, University of Pennsylvania
Energy-Efficient Information Processing and Retinal Coding
February 1
Yiannis Moschovakis, University of California, Los Angeles
University of Athens
A calculus of meanings and synonymies
February 8
Aravind Joshi, University of Pennsylvania
Structural Descriptions of Formal Systems and Folded (Secondary and Higher) Structures of Biological Sequences
February 15
Dan Lee, University of Pennsylvania
Biologically Inspired Computation and Learning in Artificial Sensorimotor Systems
February 22
Steven Small, University of Chicago
Brain Localization for Language and Other Anachronisms
March 1
Richard Lewis, University of Michigan
Parsing as Cue-based Memory Retrieval: Toward Computational Models of the Moment-by-moment Processes of Sentence Comprehension
April 5
Martha Farah, University of Pennsylvania
Racist Amygdalas and Ritalin for All: Emerging Bioethical Issues in Cognitive Neuroscience
April 19
Simon Laughlin, University of Cambridge
Metabolic Energy and Neural Function
May 3
Ellen Prince, University of Pennsylvania
The Borrowing of Meaning Driving the Changing of Form
May 10
Tecumseh Fitch, Harvard University
The Evolution of Spoken Language: A Comparative Approach
May 17
Special Feature!
The Ultimate Definitive Final Special Edition - DVD version
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
12:00-2:00 p.m.
Bring your lunch and your sense of humor! (And your coconuts, of course).
