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Master in Intelligent Systems at the University of Lugano, Switzerland, in collaboration with IDSIA

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2010

Sep 20-24: Keynote for Joint Conferences ECML / PKDD 2010, Barcelona

May 20-22: Keynote for GP Theory & Practice 2010, Ann Arbor, MI (25th anniversary of Genetic Programming)

Videos of the 2009 Singularity Summit talk in NYC are now online:
1. Original video (40 min).
2. Condensed but jagged video (20 min), also at the ShanghAI Lectures - see blurb.
3. Short video (10 min). The series of shorter and shorter versions may converge in a video singularity
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1. July 12: GECCO 2010 best paper award for Exponential Natural Evolution Strategies. PDF.
2. June 9: Interview with The Fifth Conference
3. May 28: World record in handwritten digit recognition for deep big simple fast neural nets on graphics cards. Neural Computation, in press, 2010. ArXiv Preprint.
4. Mar 10: AGI 2010 best paper award (Kurzweil Prize) for Frontier Search. PDF.
5. Mar 3: Our Pybrain Machine Learning Library features source code of many learning algorithms - some of them cannot be found in other libraries. See Pybrain video. See JMLR paper.
6. Feb 12: Schmidhuber's Team of 2010 is shaping up - two Seniors, a dozen Postdocs, a dozen PhD students, one Visiting Professor. Still hiring!
7. Jan 17: Schmidhuber's 47th birthday & activity report of last year (1 page summary)
8. Jan 5: Interview in H+ Magazine: Build Optimal Scientist, Then Retire. Got slashdotted on Jan 27.
9. Our multi-dimensional LSTM recurrent neural networks recently won several handwriting recognition competitions at IDCAR 2009 (search the site for "Graves", Schmidhuber's postdoc).
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1. Postdoc and Phd jobs 2010: follow instructions under sn2010, sin2008, eu2009. Interviews at IDSIA, CogSys 2010, EUCogII 2010, AGI 2010 (March 5-8), in the Michigan area (around May 21), or by Skype.

2. Special Issue of Algorithms on "Algorithmic Complexity in Physics & Embedded Artificial Intelligences" in Memoriam Ray Solomonoff. New deadline 31 Aug 2010.

3. IDSIA seminars
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2009

Nov 12: Keynote for Multiple Ways to Design 09: Art & Science
Oct 10: Keynote for EUCogII, Hamburg
Oct 9: Univ. Kiel
Oct 8: Univ. Luebeck
Oct 3: Singularity Summit, New York City.
Aug 25: Dirac summer school, Leuven, Belgium
June 22: NDES 2009, Switzerland
Mar 18: Harvard
Mar 17: Boston U.
Mar 16: MIT
Mar 13: UMass
Mar 11: NYU
Mar 10: Princeton
Mar 9: Rutgers
Mar 6: Keynote for Artificial General Intelligence AGI-09, on New AI & Singularity, Washington DC
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1. The Great Ray Solomonoff passed away on 7 Dec. With great sadness AGI 2010 will be held "In Memoriam Ray Solomonoff."
2. Dec 1 is deadline for the conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI 2010) in Lugano, Switzerland! At the conference we'll also conduct additional job interviews for the remaining Postdoc and Phd jobs announced under sn2010, sin2008, eu2009.
3. Oct 28: The European Union - A New Kind of Empire?
4. Sept 25 - new jobs: Three postdocs of Schmidhuber just got professorships abroad. Now he is looking for three FRESH postdocs to replace them.
5. July 27: Schmidhuber's Team of 2009 - a dozen PhD students, a dozen Postdocs, two Seniors, three visiting Professors.
6. Best paper award at GECCO 2009: S. Yi, D. Wierstra, T. Schaul, J. Schmidhuber: Efficient Natural Evolution Strategies. PDF.
7. Site of STIFF research project on biomorphic agility of elastic robot arms and hands
8. Guest editor: Special Issue of Algorithms on "Algorithmic Complexity in Physics & Embedded Artificial Intelligences" (deadline 31 Dec 2009)
9. Jan 17: Schmidhuber's activity report of last year (1 page summary)
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1. Nov 2009 - Job updates: Postdoc position in biologically plausible RL open again! 2. Most of the 10 new jobs announced in 2009 in Schmidhuber's lab at IDSIA are filled, but we'll hire one more postdoc and one more PhD student in adaptive robotics (humanoids / artificial hands) and machine learning in general (both theory and practice). 3. Several new postdoc and PhD positions for 2010 still open. See also IDSIA seminars.

4. Fibonacci Web Design

5. April 15: Art and science as by-products of the desire to create / discover more data that is compressible in hitherto unknown ways: overview on theory of surprise & creativity and subjective beauty
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10 new jobs in Schmidhuber's lab at IDSIA

STIFF - EU research project on enhancing biomorphic agility of robot arms and hands through variable stiffness & elasticity

Theory of Surprise and Artificial Curiosity

2008

Dec 19: Plenary talk for Art Meets Science, Museum of Design, Zurich

Nov 11: This year's 11/11@11:11 talk at INI

Oct 10: Keynote for IEEE meeting on General AI cancelled

Sep 5: Plenary talk for ICANN 2008, Prague

Sep 3: Keynote for Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems KES 2008, Zagreb

Jun 27: Keynote for Artificial Cognitive Systems 2008

April 29: Zurich AI Lab: Brownbag talk
Mar 5: ETH Zurich
Jan 21: Dagstuhl Castle Talk: New Recurrent Neural Nets

1. Nov 17: Source code for LSTM and other recurrent networks (full BPTT, CTC, multidim. LSTM RNN, etc.), by Dr. Alex Graves.
2. Oct 24: IDSIA 20th anniversary celebration - great keynote speakers!
3. Sept 2008: JS elected to the Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, whose 1200 members include many Nobel laureates, renowned architects / artists, and the Pope :-)
4. Aug 25: alternative Olympic gold medal count, including EU and Jamaica, plus all time gold count (2008).
5. WinterSemester 2008/09 at Schmidhuber's TUM lab: Course Machine Learning I (Dr. Martin Felder), Proseminar Music and Computer Science, Seminar Machine Learning and Computer Vision, Seminar Evolutionary Algorithms, Seminar Sequence Learning, more to come soon...
6. July 7: Postdoc position at IDSIA (program learning) is filled; 2 month visitor position is also filled
7. Apr 3: Short correspondence to Science (+ podcast) and Nature
8. Jan 17 (Schmidhuber's 45th birthday); selected artworks featuring his kids
9. Schmidhuber's activity report of last year (1 page summary)
10. Jan 1: Mauro Dell'Ambrogio, ex-head of SUPSI and IDSIA administration, becomes new secretary of state for education and research, the top science job in Switzerland, country with the most Nobel prizes / patents / citations per capita. Congrats!
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1. Nov 28: IDSIA Jobs update - still open: 1 Postdoc and 1 PhD student in biologically plausible reinforcement learning. Filled: 2 Postdocs in handwriting recognition, 1 Postdoc in medical image analysis; 1 PhD fellowship in evolutionary computation.
2. Oct 1: Publications & RNN page & evolution page & RL page & page on theory of surprise: 14 conference papers of 2008 on handwriting recognition, program learning, policy gradients, evolution, interestingness...
3. Mar 12: references updated for the RNN book
4. Overview of all computable universes (Spektrum 2007)
5. Pictures of Juergen and the kids
6. Need a Swiss or German partner for an EU project (call FP7 etc) on robot learning or time series analysis or evolution etc.? Contact us.

2007

Oct 2: Joint invited lecture for Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT 2007) and Discovery Science (DS 2007), Sendai, Japan. Preprint
Oct 5: Univ. Tokyo
Sep 29: Univ. Hokkaido
Sep 27: Univ. Kyoto
Sep 25: BSI Riken, Tokyo
Aug 22-23: A*STAR Meeting on Expectation & Surprise, Singapore (Keynote)
July 12: Art Meets Science 2007: "Randomness vs simplicity & beauty in physics and the fine arts" (Keynote)
July 11: LMU: "How to learn a program"
June 29: Gatsby Neuroscience, UK
June 28: Univ. Reading, UK
Apr 24: ACAT'07: Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research, Amsterdam (Plenary)
Jan 23: Univ. Bochum
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1. Nov 30: references requested for the RNN book
2. WS 2007/08 at Schmidhuber's TUM lab: Course Machine Learning I, Proseminar Genetic Programming, Seminars Machine Learning and Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning
3. Civilian European Land Robot Trial (C-ELROB, 13-16 August 2007) in Ticino, Switzerland, co-organized by IDSIA & TUM
4. Feb 23: Master of Science in Intelligent Systems at the University of Lugano, Switzerland - enrolment deadline 1 July 2007
5. Feb 1: Courses at Schmidhuber's TUM lab: Machine Learning II, the Machine Learning Lab Course, Proseminar Genetic Programming, Seminars Machine Learning and Computer Vision, Recent Advances in Reinforcement Learning, Neural Networks: Tricks of the Trade, Probabilistic Models of the Brain
6. Jan 17: Schmidhuber's 44th birthday. Activity report of last year (1 page summary)

1. Dec 10: Feedback networks
2. Nov 30: Cognitive Technical Systems
3. Oct 9: Publications, Subjective Beauty, Artificial Curiosity
4. Algorithmic Theory of Everything
5. Robot cars
6. 3 August: Postdoc position on reinforcement learning at IDSIA is filled.
7. May 20: Resilient machines with continuous self-modeling in the style of Gloye-Förster et al. (2004-05) (plus correspondence)
8. Mar 13: This postdoc position is now filled; we expect a new senior position.
9. What's new (old layout)

Resilient machine with Continuous Self-Modeling

2006

Nov 8: MPI, Berlin
Nov 6-7: Zuse Symposium, Berlin: Is the universe a computer? (Plenary)
July 27: GWAL-7: Goedel Machines (Keynote)
May 27: Turing Days, Istanbul: computable universes and generalized Kolmogorov complexity (Plenary)
March 21: Cognitive Systems, Luxembourg
Jan 31: Dagstuhl Castle: algorithmic information and randomness

1. We are seeking outstanding PhD students / postdocs (BAT IIa) for the new CoTeSys cluster of excellence a TU Munich - follow the CoTeSys instructions. Selected topics: Artificial curiosity for artificial hands, behavior evolution for walking bipeds.
2. Another TUM job: BAT IIa or BAT Ib at TUM (EU project; Start Dec 1)
3. August 31: New jobs at IDSIA - Postdoc & Phd fellowships
4. Archimedes, greatest scientist ever
5. June 20: History converging? Again?
6. June 16: The Computational Universe (book review for American Scientist)
7. June 7: Job offer: IDSIA senior researcher position
8. May 18: Artificial Intelligence: AI history & outlook
9. May 15: Colossus (correspondence to Nature 441 p 25, May 2006)
10. May 9: Apply for a 2 week course (Sept 17-29, 2006) in beautiful Sarntal: Music and Machine Learning (deadline 26 May; only students of TUM, Erlangen, Stuttgart).
11. Mar 30: Source Code of the Optimal Ordered Problem Solver in crystalline format
12. Feb 20: Highlights of robot car history
13. Jan 26: correspondence to Nature (439 p 392, Jan 2006) on randomness and physics
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1. Dec 18: Recent papers on Goedel machines (and consciousness)
2. Oct 25: New papers on robot learning (IROS, ICRA)
3. Sept 8: Einstein
4. Sept 4: A new, general method for evolution / reinforcement learning that outperforms many others on difficult control tasks (ECML)
5. August 3: New paper on optimal artificial curiosity and the nature of beauty (published June 2006)
6. May 1: Old Postdoc job filled (new one on the horizon)
7. Mar 29: Outline of SS 2006 course: Machine learning II
8. Feb 6: randomness and the deterministic computable universe
9. Feb 24: Randomness and Kolmogorov complexity

Music and Machine Learning: Ferienakademie

2005

Dec 16: Siemens
Dec 7: Univ. Osnabrueck
Nov 29: LMU-TUM Colloquium
Nov 17: Univ. Innsbruck
Oct 4: Univ. Tokyo cancelled!
Sept 12: Plenary talk at ICANN 2005, Warsaw
July 4-8: NN 2005, Porto
June 22-23: Univ. Padova
June 18-21: Venice Summer School
May 13: Data Ecologies 2005, Linz (Plenary)

1. Dec 19: New site of TUM Computer Science
2. External funding for TUM CS postdocs & phd students
3. Design principles of Schmidhuber's web sites and talk slides: Fibonacci web design
4. F. L. Bauer
5. New 70 Teraflops supercomputer in the Leibniz Rechenzentrum
6. Nov 22: Job offer: Postdoc at IDSIA
7. Oct 4: Evolving recurrent neural nets (RNN) with fast synapses
8. EVOLINO for supervised RNN and recurrent SVMs (updated Dec 20)
9. Evolution main page
10. Sep 15: Course material WS 2005 / 06 etc.
11. April 2-19: By a strange coincidence, JS is at St. Peter's in Rome on the day Pope John Paul II dies, and in Prof. Ratzinger's old Diocese in Munich on the day he becomes Pope Benedict XVI.

1. Dec 20: Feedback nets
2. Ten new publications plus updated bibfile
3. Sep 30: Robot Learning
4. July 5: Newsweek letters on China etc.
5. May 6: Robot population explosion
6. Feb 25: Artificial curiosity (plus overview paper for AAAI 2005 symposium on developmental robotics)
7. Feb 8: Outline of SS 2005 course: Machine learning and optimization II
8. Revised paper on the Gödel machine (Dec 2004); compare arXiv cs.LO/0309048
9. Schickard, father of the computer age (1623)
10. Leibniz, inventor of bit and calculus and other things

2004
Dec 9: Keynote talk at Neuro-IT, Munich
Nov 9: Plenary talk at ANNIE 2004, St. Louis, US: How to learn an algorithm: Optimal universal learners, Goedel machines & recurrent nets
July 12: Summer School NN2004: Porto, Portugal (recurrent networks)
July 13: NN2004: Porto (applications)
June 4: INI, ETH Zuerich
Mar 30: Keynote talk at Fourth Symposium on Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, Univ. Leeds, UK
Feb 21: Symposium on 'Human Language: cognitive, neuroscientific and dynamical systems perspectives', Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (Keynote)
Feb 19: Univ. Newcastle
Jan 30: Univ. Amsterdam

1. Dec 13: Job @ IDSIA on speech & HMMs & RNNs. (Postdoc / visitor for 3 months; but 2 year prolongation possible).
2. Oct 1: TU Munich Cogbotlab established. Schmidhuber now Professor of Cognitive Robotics @ TUM & codirector IDSIA & Prof. SUPSI
3.Outline of course 2004/05: Machine learning and optimization I
4. Sept 6: Job offer at TU Munich (robot learning)
5. Statistical robotics overview
6. EU metal (Athens 2004)
7. More recent portrait (old one was out of date)
8. CIO article on Schmidhuber's work (The ideal scientist, 6/2/04, 5 pages, in German)
9. Goedel Machine FAQ
10. Gauss, mathematician of the millennium
11. Haber & Bosch, most influential persons of the 20th century
12. Announcement of Summer School on Imprecise Probabilities, July 27-31, 2004, Lugano (Switzerland)
13. German version of cover page
14. New home page layout for 2004 (previous 2003 layout).

1. Oct 25: TUM job and IDSIA jobs filled
2. Sept 6: Formerly inofficial Jobs at IDSIA now confirmed (learning robots)
3. Generalized Kolmogorov Complexity (with Jan Poland's new proof of a perfect coding theorem for Enumerable Output Machines, 3 Aug 2004)
4. Recurrent Neural Networks (new layout, more papers, source code etc)
5. NIPS 2003 RNNaissance workshop, with the lyrics of Bohebbian Rhapsody (compare Journal of Machine Learning Gossip)
6. Alan Turing (with recent letter in Nature 429, p. 501, 2004)
7. Optimal Ordered Problem Solver (with recent papers: MLJ 2004, IAS 2004, NIPS 2003)
8. Online publications
9. Learning Robots