Festival of Doubt

FoD is an informal discussion series for topics in the general realm of artificial intelligence, agents, machine learning, complex adaptive systems and evolution. The goal is to have fun with ideas. Discussions are mostly initiated/led by someone from the regular doubters. We meet in the Cotton Club annex, nominally at 11am, on every second Thursday - see specific dates below. FoD mailing list - carries invitations to the sessions. Anyone at all with similar interests is welcome to subscribe to this. Anyone who is in the "AI group" (including graduate students) can edit these wiki pages, as can any VUW academic staff. If you'd like to change anything here but find you can't, see Kourosh Neshatian (else Marcus Frean) and we can put you on the list.

• What to do - instructions for the MC.
• Suggested fod topics - put your suggestions for festival discussions here

Coming up:

When	Where	Who is MC	Topic*
18 Feb	CO250	Keith Cassell	Ask Peter Norvig Anything (without Peter Norvig). Conducted under Keith's Rules of Disorder
(date here)	(name here)	(topic here)

* Titles in italic are tentative; the topic and the corresponding date might be changed.

Previously:

2009

(put most recent at top)

When	Who	Topic
26 Nov 2009	Peter Andreae	Vietnamese Document Representation and Classification (practice talk for AI09)
12 Nov 2009	Miles Thompson	Understanding money on the social network
1 Oct 2009	Peter Andreae	Learning to act in a complex world
6 Aug 2009	Sergio Hernandez	How to predict the past using future imprecise information
14 May 2009	Mengjie Zhang	There Is a Free Lunch for Hyper-Heuristics, Genetic Programming and Computer Scientists
30 Apr 2009	Marcus Frean	Restricted Boltzmann Machine II
16 Apr 2009	Daniel Crabtree	Restricted Boltzmann Machine
2 Apr 2009	Will Smart	A mathematical model for visual beauty
19 Mar 2009	Richard Proctor	Using information theory to improve music theory
12 Feb 2009	Social Evolution Reading Group	Casual discussion
5 Feb 2009	Marcus Frean	Solving expensive parameter optimization problems, without going broke
29 Jan 2009	Adam Clarke	Exploring the space between low-level sensory inputs and high-level concepts
22 Jan 2009	Social Evolution Reading Group	Sexual selection and Fisher's runaway process
15 Jan 2009	Keith Cassell	Applying the concepts of social network analysis to software engineering
8 Jan 2009	Social Evolution Reading Group	Price's equation applied to Group Selection

Previous years

- all the talks since we started in 2003.