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21 June 2013
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1. 2013:
Jobs for Postdocs & PhD students. Face-to-face interviews in North America possible near: Seattle (around 17 July), L.A. (~23 July), San Diego (~28 July), Austin (~2 Aug), Dallas (~6 Aug), Toronto (~10 Aug); compare events in the leftmost column.
2. Jan 17: JS turning 50, ready to enter his midlife crisis.
3. Jan 8:
Activity report of last year (1 page summary)
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1. Aug 8, San Francisco: AAAI 2011 best video award for Swarmanoid, the movie (youtube), with contributions from IDSIA (group of Luca), IRIDIA (group of Marco, ex-IDSIA), EPFL, ISTC.
2. Aug 6, Google Headquarters, CA: Kurzweil Prize for Best Paper of AGI 2011 (Gisslen, Luciw, Graziano, Schmidhuber).
3. Aug 6: 2011 Solomonoff AGI Theory Prize shared by M. Ring in the group of J.S.
4. Aug 2, San Jose, CA: Our team won the IJCNN 2011 on-site
Traffic Sign Recognition Competition (the only method outperforming humans - thanks to Dan & Ueli & Jonathan).
See paper. More.
5. June 17: Our team just won the ICDAR 2011 Chinese
handwriting recognition competition. More.
6. Mar 25: Schmidhuber's Team of 2011
7. Feb 1:
Computer Vision with Fast Deep / Recurrent Neural Nets etc -
new world records on visual pattern recognition benchmarks: CIFAR10, NORB, ...
8. Jan 21: 1st & 2nd rank in the
online Traffic Sign Recognition Contest. Top teams invited to IJCNN.
9. Jan 18: Interview with The Next Big Future
10. Jan 17: Schmidhuber's 48th birthday &
activity report of last year (1 page summary)
11. Jan 5:
Citation bubble about to burst?
(Nature, vol. 469, p. 34, 2011).
Like the less-than-worthless CDOs that drove the recent financial bubble, and unlike concrete goods and real exports, citations are easy to print and inflate.
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1. Nov 12:
Switzerland - best country in the world,
especially for scientists?
2. Oct 1:
Formal theory of creativity (1990-2010) explains
science, art, music, humor, autonomous development, the desire to learn motor skills, and
principles of artificial scientists & artists (with recent survey paper in IEEE TAMD).
3. July 12: GECCO 2010 best paper nomination for Exponential Natural Evolution Strategies.
PDF.
4. June 9:
Interview with The Fifth Conference
5. 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.
6. Mar 10: AGI 2010 best paper award (Kurzweil Prize) for Frontier Search. PDF.
7. 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.
8. Feb 12: Schmidhuber's Team of 2010 is shaping up - two Seniors, a dozen Postdocs,
a dozen PhD students, one Visiting Professor. Still hiring!
9. Jan 17: Schmidhuber's 47th birthday &
activity report of last year (1 page summary)
10. Jan 5: Interview in H+ Magazine: Build Optimal Scientist, Then Retire. Got
slashdotted
on Jan 27.
11. Our multi-dimensional LSTM recurrent neural networks
recently won
several handwriting
recognition competitions at ICDAR 2009 (search
the site for "Graves", Schmidhuber's postdoc).
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2009
Nov 12: Keynote in the historic Cinema Corso (Lugano)
for Design Research 09: Art & Science
Oct 10: Keynote for EUCogII, Hamburg
Oct 9: Univ. Kiel
Oct 8: Univ. Luebeck
Oct 3: Invited talk for Singularity Summit in the historic
Kaufmann Concert Hall, 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
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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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
June 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
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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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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)
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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
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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)
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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
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