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Distinguished Lecturer Series
Stuart Russell
Computer Science Division
University of California at Berkeley
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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. |
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