CNSE Industry Day 2003
MACHINE AWARENESS AND LEARNING

May 15, 2003
Beckman Institute Auditorium

 

 

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Program

All events will take place in and around the Beckman Institute, with registration, breakfast, and lunch in the courtyard, the BIObugs event in the Broad Café (to the north of the Beckman Institute) and the reception in the Broad Café and on the Beckman Institute Lawn. All talks are in the Beckman Institute Auditorium.

The Program below is tentative; final details will be available soon.

8:00 - 8:30 Registration / Continental Breakfast
8:30 - 8:40 Pietro Perona, Director, CNSE
Welcoming Remarks
8:40 - 9:00 Steve Koonin, Provost, Caltech
Caltech's Information Science and Technology Initiative
9:00 - 11:00 Session 1: Awareness & Cognition
Session Chair - Steve Quartz
9:00 - 9:20 Christof Koch
Awareness, Visual Attention & Saliency
9:20 - 9:40 Demetri Psaltis
Awareness & Computation
9:40 - 10:00 Pietro Perona
Sensory Categories
10:00 - 10:20 Break
10:20 - 10:40 Yaser Abu-Mostafa
Learning from Very Noisy Data
10:40 - 11:00 Greg Billock, iSpheres Corp.
A Sense and Respond Platform
11:00 - 11:30 Spotlights (TBA) - 6 (5 minutes each)
11:30 - 1:00 Lunch, Posters and Booths
1:00 - 2:30 Panel Discussion: Applications of Neuromorphic Engineering
Panelists: Ned Allen, Chief Scientific Officer, Skunkworks, Lockheed-Martin, David Cohn, V.P. of Autonomic Computing, IBM Research, Eric Hannah, Sector Director, Physics, Intel Research, Paul MacCready, Chairman of The Board, AeroVironment
2:30 - 4:10 Session 2: Behavior & Learning
Session Chair - TBD
2:30 - 2:50 Michael Dickinson
Insect Behavior
2:50 - 3:10 Thanos Siapas
Learning and Behavior in Mammals
3:10 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 3:50 Richard Andersen
Neural Prosthetics
3:50 - 4:10 Maja Mataric
Learning by Imitation
4:10 - 4:30 Wrap Up – Joel Burdick
4:30 - 5:30 Keynote Address
Mark Tilden, Head R&D WowWee, Hasbro Toys
Machine Learning: What Does It Add to the Value of Products? (With Examples)
5:30 - 6:00 Media Event - BIOBugs
6:00 - 8:00 Reception

 
 
Contact

For questions regarding this conference and future events please contact:

Doris Lee
Tel: 626-395-2246
Fax: 626-795-4765
doris@erc.caltech.edu

Dr. Siddharth Dasgupta
Associate Director, CNSE
Tel: 626-395-2809
Fax: 626-795-4765
sdg@cnse.caltech.edu

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