Go to home page Go to home page Go to Home Page Go to UIUC site Education People Research About Us Join Us News & Events DCL photo spacer spacer April 1, 2004 4:00 pm 1310 DCL 1304 W. Springfield Ave. Urbana, IL spacer Distinguished Lecturer Series Stuart Russell Computer Science Division University of California at Berkeley Identity Uncertainty We are often uncertain about the identity of objects. This phenomenon appears in theories of object persistence in early childhood; in the well-known Morning Star/Evening Star example; in tracking and data association systems for radar; in security systems based on personal identification; in database cleaning and merging; and in many aspects of our everyday lives. I will present a probabilistic approach to reasoning about identity under uncertainty, with applications to wide-area freeway traffic monitoring and bibliographic citation databases. The approach is embodied within a formal language for representing probability models that include identity uncertainty. Bio Stuart Russell received his B.A. with first-class honours in physics from Oxford University in 1982, and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley, where he is a professor of computer science, director of the Center for Intelligent Systems, and holder of the Smith--Zadeh Chair in Engineering. In 1990, he received the Presidential Young Investigator Award of the National Science Foundation, and in 1995 he was cowinner of the Computers and Thought Award. He was a 1996 Miller Professor of the University of California and was appointed to a Chancellor's Professorship in 2000. In 1998, he gave the Forsythe Memorial Lectures at Stanford University. He is a Fellow and former Executive Council member of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery. He has published over 100 papers on a wide range of topics in artificial intelligence. His books include "The Use of Knowledge in Analogy and Induction" (Pitman, 1989), "Do the Right Thing: Studies in Limited Rationality" (with Eric Wefald, MIT Press, 1991), and "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig, Prentice Hall, 1995, 2003). Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. in the Atrium near 1310 DCL. Logo Department of Computer Science, Thomas M. Siebel Center for Computer Science, 201 N. Goodwin, Urbana, IL 61801-2302. The Department is part of the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Contact webmaster@cs.uiuc.edu with questions or comments on this page or academic@cs.uiuc.edu with academic questions. This site was created 12/01/01.