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The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) invites you to attend the 2018 Green Family Lectures featuring Yann LeCun, Director of AI Research at Facebook and Professor at NYU. Deep learning is causing revolutions in computer perception and natural language understanding. But almost all these successes largely rely on supervised learning, where the machine is required to predict human-provided annotations. For game AI, most systems use model-free reinforcement learning, which requires too many trials to be practical in the real world. …

The Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) invites you to the first Green Family Lectures of 2018 featuring Yann LeCun, director of Facebook’s artificial intelligence research and professor at NYU. The rapid progress of AI in the last few years is largely the result of advances in deep learning and neural nets, combined with the availability of large datasets and fast hardware for numerical computing (GPUs). We now have systems that can recognize images with an accuracy that rivals…

Wednesday, Jan 10, 2018 – 11:30 am to 12:30 pm Research Library (Charles E. Young) – Research Commons (RC) Classroom UCLA graduate student, Terry Allen, will present his project. Terry holds a M.A. in Education Policy from Teachers College, Columbia University and a B.A. in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Urban Schooling from the University of California, Los Angeles. Originally from San Francisco Bay Area, Terry has two lines of research.…

Supply chains are critical to understanding the global economy. As offshoring has become standard corporate practice, these networks have become head-spinningly complex, evan as just-in-time production and rapid cycles of obsolescence require that commodities be handed through the supply chain with minimal latency. The presentation investigates SAP, the suite of software most commonly used for supply chain management. As the global economy roils and the market permits ever less downtime, SAP’s supply-chain management modules incorporate increasingly sophisticated machine-learning algorithms, turning…

Foregoing the political lens through which we usually look back at racial photography, this talk returns racial photography into the history of science and addresses it as a form of scientific evidence. Morris-Reich reconstructs individual cases, conceptual genealogies, and patterns of practice of the use of photography and photographic techniques for the study of “race” from the nineteenth century to the Nazi period. RSVP here AMOS MORRIS-REICH (University of Haifa) Cosponsored by: UCLA Department of History UCLA Department of Germanic…

Peter Sachs Collopi – “Noosphere to Videosphere: Evolutionary Panpsychism from Henri Bergson to Media Art”

Apr 11, 2017 Speaker: Maria Klawe Affiliation: Harvey Mudd College ABSTRACT: Computing is one of the least diverse disciplines in science and engineering in terms of participation by women, African-Americans and Hispanics, and the only discipline where participation by women has significantly decreased over the last three decades. While our discipline does well in encouraging members of underrepresented groups to go on to graduate programs, we have been less successful in attracting members of these groups into undergraduate programs. This…