AI & Multiagent Systems Research for Social Good – Prof. Milind Tambe

AI & Multiagent Systems Research for Social Good - Prof. Milind Tambe
Recorded July 19th, 2018

Milind Tambe is Helen N. and Emmett H. Jones Professor in Engineering and a Professor of Computer Science and Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles.
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The Future of Trump’s Space Force

The Future of Trump
Recorded July 30th, 2018

An expert panel discussed the President’s proposal to create a so-called “space force” as a sixth, new branch of defense. Panelists included former Pentagon officials who discussed the current state and structure of the nation’s extraterrestrial capabilities and the advantages and disadvantages of creating a separate space-focused branch. After panelists spoke, they took questions from the audience.
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought – Jim Holt

When Einstein Walked with Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought - Jim Holt
New York Times’ Jim Holt discussed the relationship between physicist Albert Einstein and Austrian mathematician Kurt Gödel and profiled other scientific leaders, including Alan Turing, Ada Lovelace, Emmy Noether, and others.

Recorded May 21st, 2018
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A History of Reinforcement Learning – Prof. A.G. Barto

A History of Reinforcement Learning - Prof. A.G. Barto
Recorded July 19th, 2018 at IJCAI2018

Andrew G. Barto is a professor of computer science at University of Massachusetts Amherst, and chair of the department since January 2007. His main research area is reinforcement learning.
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The Evolution of Beauty – Genetics – Prof. Richard Prum

The Evolution of Beauty - Genetics - Prof. Richard Prum
Richard Prum is William Robertson Coe Professor of Ornithology, and Head Curator of Vertebrate Zoology at the Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University.

Recorded June 11th, 2018
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Yann LeCun – The Next Step Towards Artificial Intelligence

Yann LeCun - The Next Step Towards Artificial Intelligence
Recorded July 16th 2018

Yann LeCun is the Chief AI Scientist for Facebook AI Research (FAIR), joining Facebook in December 2013. He is also a Silver Professor at New York University on a part time basis, mainly affiliated with the NYU Center for Data Science, and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Science.
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