Dr Peter Andreae
BE(Hons) Cant, SM, PhD M.I.T.
Teaching
Teaching in 2010:
COMP 102
COMP 261
COMP 348
Biography
I have been connected to AI for a very long time -- my father has been doing research in Machine Learning since the early 1960's. My first degree was in Electrical Engineering from the University of Canterbury (NZ). I then went to M.I.T. and did a Masters (on a topic in complexity) and a
PhD, in Machine Learning (finished in 1984). Since then I have been here at Victoria University of Wellington, first in the Department of Computer Science, which was then merged into a new School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science, and now I am part of the new School of Engineering and Computer Science.
Availablity and Location
My calendar and the
school seminar calendar
The Cotton building is near the center of
The Kelburn Campus which is on
Kelburn Parade in Wellington. Enter at Gate 6 off Kelburn Parade.
My office is on the fourth floor.
Research
My research interests lie in machine learning, particularly learning from complex structured information.
Favourite Quotations
"Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people." George Bernard Shaw
"If all men stood talking of their rights before they went up a mast or down a sewer or stoked a furnace or joined an army, we should all perish; nor while they talked of their rights would they learn to do these things...The man preoccupied with his own rights is not only a disastrous,but a very unlovely object; indeed, one of the worst mischiefs we do by treating a man unjustly is that we force him to be thus preoccupied."
C.S. Lewis, Selected Literary Essays, "Kipling's World", 1948
"Real Programmers" - Why emacs is best, courtesy of
xkcd
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