CSE 590 HK
Assisted Cognition

Spring 2003

2516 HK 1-3 F 11:00-11:50 Mary Gates Hall Room 085 KAUTZ,H Credit/No Credit

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Welcome!  You have reached the 590 associated with the Assisted Cognition Project.  Please check us out.  We will be discussing recent work in

Each week someone will either present a recent paper from the literature, or some of his or her own research.  The mailing list for this course is cse590hk.

Although the course catalog says that the course is restricted to CSE grads, in fact both undergraduates and graduates in any discipline are welcome to attend.  CSE grads can take the course for between 1 and 3 credits.  Decisions about whether the seminar can be taken for credit will be decided on a case-by-case basis.

Paper Reviews

Starting with the class on May 9th, participants taking the class for credit should submit a short summary review of the readings.  Summaries should be about 3/4 of a page in length, certainly no longer than one page. All submissions should be turned in by midnight the Thursday preceding the class to allow me time to read them before we meet.  Enter your review by clicking on the appropriate link below: this will bring up a text window into which you can type or paste your review.  You can also read all the other posted reviews.

Paper title/author:

One-line summary:

The one or two most important ideas in the paper:

What evidence is provided to support these ideas?  Is it convincing?

What open research questions does the work suggest?  (This is an open-ended question; you can think 
about it in terms of the specific work described in the paper, or in terms of how the work might be 
applied to a computer science application.)

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Calendar

date paper     discussion leader
April 11 David Poole, "Logic, Knowledge Representation, and Bayesian Decision Theory", First International Conference on Computational Logic, London, 2000.

The independent choice logic provides a bridge between logical representations and belief networks that lets us understand these other representations and their relationship to logic and shows how they can extended to first-order rule-based representations.

     Henry Kautz
April 18 class cancelled (Ubicomp paper deadline)      
April 25 Overview of the Darpa Augmented Cognition effort, focusing on the efforts involving
  • Cognitive and Neural Components: New algorithms and sensors for the interaction, monitoring, and measurement of humans and computers in heterogeneous environments.
  • Cognitive Amplification Environments:  technologies for the human-machine collaboration.
  • Cognition Under Stress.

Program website: http://www.augmentedcognition.org

    Eric Horvitz

Decision Theory & Adaptive
Systems Group, Microsoft Research
May 2 Predicting Daily Behavior via Wearable Sensors, Brian Clarkson and Alex Pentland, Vismod TR#540, July 2001.

Analyzing Human Interactions in the Facilitator room. Sumit Basu, Tanzeem Choudhury, Brian Clarkson, and Alex Pentland. IEEE International Workshop on Cues in Communication. In conjunction with Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2001. Submitted 2001.

Brian Clarkson's publications page (including slides for talks):
 http://web.media.mit.edu/~clarkson/publications.html 

    Douglas Downey
May 9 Ray Jackendoff, Foundations of Language: Brain, Meaning, Grammar, Evolution.  Oxford, 2002. 
Chapters 1, 2, 3, and 4.
Participants taking the class for credit should submit a  review of two of the chapters (your choice).
Participants auditing the class are welcome to submit reviews as well. 		Submit Review Read Reviews Henry Kautz
May 16 Jackenoff, continued.  Chapters 5, 6, 7, and 9.  (Note: skipping 8.)
Participants taking the class for credit should submit a review of two chapters (your choice).
Participants auditing the class are welcome to submit reviews as well. 		Submit Review Read Reviews Henry Kautz
Monday, May 19th 2:30 pm, Ray Jackendoff visits CSE, "Words versus Rules"
Note: time has changed. 		     
Tuesday, May 20th Ray Jackendoff Walker-Ames Lecture, 7 pm, Kane Hall      
May 23

Rosalind W. Picard (2001), "Affective Medicine: Technology with Emotional Intelligence", Chapter to appear in book "Future of Health Technology," IOS Press. TR 537 . 

 Submit Review Read Reviews Henry Kautz
May 30 Zhou X. and Conati C. (2003). Inferring User Goals from Personality and Behavior in a Causal Model of User Affect Proceedings of IUI 2003, International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Maimi, FL, U.S.A

Can a Rational Agent Afford to be Affectless?  Christine Lisetti and Piortri Gmytrasiewicz, 2002.

 Submit Review Read Reviews Kate Deibel

Sahngyun Hahn
June 6 Agent Theories, Architectures, and Languages: A Survey.  Michael J. Wooldridge and Nicholas R. Jennings.  In  Intelligent Agents - Theories, Architectures, and Languages.  Mark Wooldridge and Nick Jennings, eds.  Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, (1995).  Submit Review Read Reviews Don Patterson