January 28: Foundational Issues in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science: Impass and Solution, moderated by VERONICA DARK (Psych); Reading: Selections from a book of the same title by Bickhard (Psych) and Terveen (AI).
SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE: Feb 6 (Thursday), 4:00 PM, 238 Coover "Does Machine Learning Really Work?," Distinguished Computer Science Lecture, by Tom Mitchell (CS and Robotics, Carnegie Mellon). Mitchell will examine recent progress and open questions in machine learning, suggest some Ph.D. thesis topics, and give his view on where machine learning might be headed over the next decade.
February 11: Building Virtual Agent-Based Societies, moderated by LEIGH TESFATSION (Econ); Reading: "An Agent-Based Computational Model for the Evolution of Trade Networks," by McFadzean and Tesfatsion.
February 18: An Outsider's View of the Inside of Evolutionary Robotics, moderated by JOHN WALKER (ICEMT); Reading: Selections from a literature review paper by J. Walker.
February 25: Two Self-Adaptive Crossover Operators for Genetic Programming, moderated by RON NELSON (ME); Reading: Paper of same title by Peter J. Angeline in Advances in Genetic Programming, Volume 2.
March 4: Kinship and Cooperation: Why Axelrod and Alife are Farther Apart than You Might Think, moderated by JAY WACKER (Physics); Reading: "Kin Effects in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma," by D. Ashlock and J. Wacker.
March 11: Spring break
March 18: The Effect of Splitting Populations on Bidding Strategies, moderated by CHUCK RICHTER (EE); Reading: Paper of same title by D. Ashlock and C. Richter.
March 25: Designing and Understanding Adaptive Group Behavior, moderated by JOHN MAYFIELD (Zoology/Genetics); Reading: Article of same title by Maja Mataric (CS, Brandeis U) in _Adaptive Behavior_ 4 (Summer 1995), 51-80.
April 1: Evolving and Computing Variants of Computational Depth, Part I, moderated by JIM LATHROP (CS); Reading: Paper by C. Bennet (1988).
April 8: Part II Continuation workshop, moderated by JIM LATHROP; Reading: Paper by C. Bennet (1988).
April 15: Bridge Table Designs, moderated by SCOTT KRAJEWSKI (Math); Reading: TBA
April 22: A General Purpose If-Statment Coding Environment (GISCE): A Genetic Assembly Language for Running Bulldozers, moderated by MARK JOENKS (CS); Reading: TBA.
April 29: Deducing Actions: A Novel Form of Noise in the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma, moderated by IRIS FUNG (Econ/Stat); Reading: TBA.