Future students

Friday, November 27, 2009 11:30 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

AI seminar: Imitation in artificial agents

Speaker: Chris Marriott

Humans possess many social learning mechanisms that may be unique to our species (e.g. human speech). Imitation is a social learning mechanism that ethologists believe is at least unigue to Hominidae (the great apes) if not Homo sapiens.

Monday, December 7, 2009 1:00 pm - 1:00 pm EST (GMT -05:00)

AI seminar: Summarizing speech

Speaker: Gerald Penn, University of Toronto

Speech is arguably the most basic, most natural form of communication that we engage in, so it should come as no surprise that there has been a consistent pressure to deliver spoken audio content on web pages that, in principle, can be searched through.