September 25, 2003, at 12:00p.m.
Psychology Room 101, Busch Campus
Dr. Michael Littman
Rutgers University, Department of Computer Science
Designing Systems that Learn to Behave
From one perspective, the computer science field of reinforcement
learning is a vestige of the age of behaviorism. From another,
however, it is arguably the only area in artificial intelligence
concerned with assembling a truly cognitive machine. In this
presentation, I'll discuss my past reinforcement learning research, my
current projects, and my beliefs of where the field needs to go next.