[header_lv2.jpg] [gold-line.gif] [gold-line.gif] [gold-line.gif] [SCF-Site-About.gif] [SCF-Site-Events-over.gif] [SCF-Site-Membership.gif] [SCF-Site-Recruiting-button.gif] [SCF-Site-Faculty.gif] [SCF-Site-Students.gif] [SCF-Site-Visiting-button.gif] [SCF-Site-Forum-Staff.gif] [SCF-Site-Visitor-Info.gif] [tan-spacer.gif] Home Search About the Forum | Video Page | Forum News Calendar | Annual Meeting | Job Fair | Workshops | Symposia | Event Archives Benefits | Directory | How to Join Affiliate Section | Student Section Directory | Research Areas | Faculty Profile Directory | Undergrad. | Masters | PhD Former VS | Application | VS Events | Program Info. | Directory Media Resources | Former Directors | Directory Bay Area Links | Lodging | Maps | Directions Events Calendar [Select Month] Annual Meeting o Annual Meeting 2003 Job Fair o Job Fair 2003 Workshops o Security 2003 Symposia o World Symposia Series Event Registration Event Archive Annual Meeting 2003 - Abstracts Andrew Ng Assistant Professor of Computer Science Gates Bldg., Rm. 156 650.725.2593 ang@cs.stanford.edu Personal Home Page Reinforcement learning, safety and robustness, and autonomous helicopter flight Reinforcement learning gives a set of tools for automatically making sequential decisions under uncertainty. For example, given a helicopter, can we automatically learn how to fly it? Closely related are also the issues of safety and robustness: For safety-critical applications, can we further provide rigorous performance guarantees for our learnings algorithms? In this talk, I outline a number of recent developments in the theory and practice of policy search approaches to reinforecement learning, including our successful application of these ideas to autonomous flight. Biography Andrew Ng is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department. His research interests include machine learning and pattern recognition, reinforcement learning and adaptive control, and algorithms for text and web data processing. [schedule.gif] 2003 Schedule [RobotLablogo.gif] Stanford Robotics Laboratory [gold-line.gif] Recent Events: Job Fair 2004 | Emeritus Lectures | Database Workshop | Annual Meeting | Security Workshop Computer Science Department Computer Systems Laboratory Dept. of Electrical Engineering School of Engineering Stanford University Stanford Computer Forum Gates Bldg, 353 Serra Mall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-9025 tel. 650.723.9689 fax. 650.725.7411 forumstaff@cs.stanford.edu