September 6: Reinforcement Learning, moderated by VASANT HONAVAR (CS); Reading: Overview of AI and Notes on Reinforcement Learning, by V. Honavar.
September 13:An Update on PIRANHA (Public Investment/Resource Appropriation Numerical Heuristic Approximation), moderated by DAN ASHLOCK (Math); Reading: to be announced.
September 20, CATT HALL 353: Some AI/Alife possibilities in mechanical engineering and a discussion of learning with missing data, moderated by RON M. NELSON (Mech Eng); Reading: "Learning with missing data using Genetic Programming" by Gerriet Backer (TUBS, Germany).
September 27: Co-Evolving Non-Uniform Cellular Automata to Perform Computations, moderated by STEVE WILLSON (Math); Reading: Physica D article of same title by Moshe Sipper (Logic Systems Lab, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology).
October 4: Graph Based Genetic Algorithms, moderated by DAN ASHLOCK (Math); a preliminary report on joint work-in-progress with Mark Smucker; no reading.
October 11: Utility Theory in Animals and Robots, moderated by KARTHIK BALAKRISHNAN (CS); Reading: Selections from a book of the same title by McFarland and Bosser (1993).
October 18: How Goedel's Theorem Supports the Possibility of Machine Intelligence, moderated by TANER EDIS (Physics/IITAP); Reading: preprint of same title by Taner Edis.
October 25: Doing Without Representing?, moderated by BILL ROBINSON (Philosophy), Reading: _Synthese_ article (Vol. 101, 1994) of same title by Andy Clark (Philosophy/Neurology/Psychology) and Josefa Toribio (Philosophy), Wash U in St. Louis.
November 1: Egrets of a Feather Flock Together, moderated by JENNIFER FREEMAN (CS), Reading: _Artificial Life_ journal article (Vol. 1, 1995, pp. 391-411) of the same title by Y. Toquenaga (Biology), I. Kajitani (ME), and T. Hoshino (ME), all of the University of Tsukuba.
November 8: Can Human Evolutionary Psychology Inform Adaptive Behavior Research?, moderated by BRIAN CRABB/LUKE ROSIELLE (Psychology); Reading: Selections from The Adapted Mind by Barkow, Cosmides, and Tooby.
November 15: Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Impasse and Solution, moderated by VERONICA DARK (Psychology); Reading: Selections from book of same title by Mark H. Bickhard and Loren Terveen. POSTPONED UNTIL SPRING
November 22: Network Externality: An Uncommon Tragedy (the Qwerty and VHS/Betamax fables), moderated by GERRY SHEBLE (EE); Reading: Article by S. J. Liebowitz and S. E. Margolis (Law and Economics).
November 25-29: Thanksgiving Break (no workshop):
December 6: C2:The ISU Virtual Environment Room (formerly known as the CAVE), moderated by CAROLINA CRUZ-NEIRA (CS/ICEMT); research demonstration.
December 13:Complex adaptations and the evolution of evolvability, moderated by NICHOLAS LEWIN (Botany); Reading: Article of same title by G. P. Wagner (Computational Ecology) and L. Altenberg (Geophysics and planetology), Evolution 50 (June 1996), 967-976.