Hi Robo-colleagues,

Tuesday next week we will have a special MIT Robotics Seminar, by the
one and only Leslie Kaelbling. Leslie is the Panasonic Professor of
Computer Science and Engineering at MIT. Her background combines an
undergraduate degree in Philosophy with a PhD in Computer Science. Her
bio promises that she is not a robot (which is an odd thing to point
out unless you are one).

Note that the seminar will start this week 15 minutes later
(11:15-12:15). Please join us for a great talk, and stay after for
food and chats.

Alberto.

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WHAT
MIT Robotics Seminar
Leslie Kaelbling, MIT
"Doing for our robots what evolution did for us"

WHERE
Kiva @32-G449

WHEN
Tuesday November 6, 11:15-12:15
Food will arrive right after the seminar

ABSTRACT
We, as robot engineers, have to think hard about our role in the
design of robots and how it interacts with learning, both in "the
factory" (that is, at engineering time) and in "the wild" (that is,
when the robot is delivered to a customer). I will share some general
thoughts about the strategies for robot design and then talk in detail
about some work I have been involved in, both in the design of an
overall architecture for an intelligent robot and in strategies for
learning to integrate new skills into the repertoire of an already
competent robot.

Joint work with: Tomas Lozano-Perez, Zi Wang, Caelan Garrett and a
fearless group of summer robot students

BIO
Leslie is a Professor at MIT. She has an undergraduate degree in
Philosophy and a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford, and was
previously on the faculty at Brown University. She was the founding
editor-in-chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research. Her
research agenda is to make intelligent robots using methods including
estimation, learning, planning, and reasoning. She is not a robot.

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