From awd at cs.cmu.edu Fri Sep 8 17:32:13 2006 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2006 17:32:13 -0400 Subject: [Research] Grand opening of the new Auton Lab season! Message-ID: <1157751133.31271.16.camel@localhost> Dear Autonians, The first Lab meeting of the new season will be a round table lunch. We need to update each other on many exciting things that happened to the Lab and to each of us individually over the Summer. We'll meet on Thursday, September 14 at noon. The most likely place would be NSH 4201, but I defer the final confirmation to Kristen. The jury is still out on the regular meeting times this year. Tuesdays and Thursdays go head to head in voting, Tuesdays are being a strong contender due to a better room availability. Please let me and Kristen know if you have realy strong feelings against any of these two options. The general idea is to hold the Lab meetings bi-weekly, unless we'd see a reason to increase the frequency on occasions. Artur From kristens at cs.cmu.edu Mon Sep 11 10:30:22 2006 From: kristens at cs.cmu.edu (Kristen Schrauder) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:30:22 -0400 Subject: [Research] Grand opening of the new Auton Lab season! In-Reply-To: <1157751133.31271.16.camel@localhost> Message-ID: <007701c6d5ae$d09ffed0$fadc0280@adm.ri.cmu.edu> This week's meeting *will* be in NSH 4201 at 12pm. As Artur stated below, Tuesdays look like the best choice for future meetings because of room availability. Please respond to me only if you are adamantly opposed to holding the biweekly meetings on Tuesdays at 11:30am. Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: research-bounces at autonlab.org [mailto:research-bounces at autonlab.org] On Behalf Of Artur Dubrawski Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 5:32 PM To: research at autonlab.org Subject: [Research] Grand opening of the new Auton Lab season! Dear Autonians, The first Lab meeting of the new season will be a round table lunch. We need to update each other on many exciting things that happened to the Lab and to each of us individually over the Summer. We'll meet on Thursday, September 14 at noon. The most likely place would be NSH 4201, but I defer the final confirmation to Kristen. The jury is still out on the regular meeting times this year. Tuesdays and Thursdays go head to head in voting, Tuesdays are being a strong contender due to a better room availability. Please let me and Kristen know if you have realy strong feelings against any of these two options. The general idea is to hold the Lab meetings bi-weekly, unless we'd see a reason to increase the frequency on occasions. Artur _______________________________________________ Research mailing list Research at autonlab.org https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kristens at cs.cmu.edu Mon Sep 11 10:42:57 2006 From: kristens at cs.cmu.edu (Kristen Schrauder) Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2006 10:42:57 -0400 Subject: [Research] Grand opening of the new Auton Lab season! Message-ID: <008b01c6d5b0$924fedf0$fadc0280@adm.ri.cmu.edu> This week is a THURSDAY (9/14) meeting in NSH 4201 at 12pm. _____ From: Kristen Schrauder [mailto:kristens at cs.cmu.edu] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 10:30 AM To: 'awd at cs.cmu.edu'; 'research at autonlab.org' Subject: RE: [Research] Grand opening of the new Auton Lab season! This week's meeting *will* be in NSH 4201 at 12pm. As Artur stated below, Tuesdays look like the best choice for future meetings because of room availability. Please respond to me only if you are adamantly opposed to holding the biweekly meetings on Tuesdays at 11:30am. Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: research-bounces at autonlab.org [mailto:research-bounces at autonlab.org] On Behalf Of Artur Dubrawski Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 5:32 PM To: research at autonlab.org Subject: [Research] Grand opening of the new Auton Lab season! Dear Autonians, The first Lab meeting of the new season will be a round table lunch. We need to update each other on many exciting things that happened to the Lab and to each of us individually over the Summer. We'll meet on Thursday, September 14 at noon. The most likely place would be NSH 4201, but I defer the final confirmation to Kristen. The jury is still out on the regular meeting times this year. Tuesdays and Thursdays go head to head in voting, Tuesdays are being a strong contender due to a better room availability. Please let me and Kristen know if you have realy strong feelings against any of these two options. The general idea is to hold the Lab meetings bi-weekly, unless we'd see a reason to increase the frequency on occasions. Artur _______________________________________________ Research mailing list Research at autonlab.org https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kristens at cs.cmu.edu Thu Sep 14 11:18:42 2006 From: kristens at cs.cmu.edu (Kristen Schrauder) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 11:18:42 -0400 Subject: [Research] Grand opening of the new Auton Lab season! In-Reply-To: <008b01c6d5b0$924fedf0$fadc0280@adm.ri.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <008d01c6d811$1173e750$fadc0280@adm.ri.cmu.edu> Just a reminder, the first Auton Lab meeting of the fall semester will be in NSH 4201 at 12pm today (9/14). Pizza will be delivered at noon as I am in a meeting and unable to meet the driver earlier. In case of any lunch complications you can grab me from NSH 3305 or call Pizza Perfectta directly at 412-661-9991. Thanks! _____ From: research-bounces at autonlab.org [mailto:research-bounces at autonlab.org] On Behalf Of Kristen Schrauder Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 10:43 AM To: awd at cs.cmu.edu; research at autonlab.org Subject: Re: [Research] Grand opening of the new Auton Lab season! This week is a THURSDAY (9/14) meeting in NSH 4201 at 12pm. _____ From: Kristen Schrauder [mailto:kristens at cs.cmu.edu] Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 10:30 AM To: 'awd at cs.cmu.edu'; 'research at autonlab.org' Subject: RE: [Research] Grand opening of the new Auton Lab season! This week's meeting *will* be in NSH 4201 at 12pm. As Artur stated below, Tuesdays look like the best choice for future meetings because of room availability. Please respond to me only if you are adamantly opposed to holding the biweekly meetings on Tuesdays at 11:30am. Thanks! -----Original Message----- From: research-bounces at autonlab.org [mailto:research-bounces at autonlab.org] On Behalf Of Artur Dubrawski Sent: Friday, September 08, 2006 5:32 PM To: research at autonlab.org Subject: [Research] Grand opening of the new Auton Lab season! Dear Autonians, The first Lab meeting of the new season will be a round table lunch. We need to update each other on many exciting things that happened to the Lab and to each of us individually over the Summer. We'll meet on Thursday, September 14 at noon. The most likely place would be NSH 4201, but I defer the final confirmation to Kristen. The jury is still out on the regular meeting times this year. Tuesdays and Thursdays go head to head in voting, Tuesdays are being a strong contender due to a better room availability. Please let me and Kristen know if you have realy strong feelings against any of these two options. The general idea is to hold the Lab meetings bi-weekly, unless we'd see a reason to increase the frequency on occasions. Artur _______________________________________________ Research mailing list Research at autonlab.org https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kristens at cs.cmu.edu Sat Sep 16 16:21:23 2006 From: kristens at cs.cmu.edu (Kristen Schrauder) Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 16:21:23 -0400 Subject: [Research] Next Lab Meeting Message-ID: <001701c6d9cd$ae3108d0$fadc0280@adm.ri.cmu.edu> Our next Auton Lab meeting will be on Tuesday, September 26th at 11:30am in NSH A507 (not this coming week but the following week). Dr. Jeff Schneider will be speaking about drug design at Psychogenics. We hope to see you there! 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Commercialized technologies from the group include: Symantec Database Security and Audit, a new product that protects the critical information stored in enterprise and government databases, the company's first anti-spam technology, generic exploit-blocking technology that proactively blocks fast-spreading threats, and technology to help protect our nation's critical power-grid infrastructure. Darren Shou Senior Manager Symantec Research Labs Symantec Corporation -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kristens at cs.cmu.edu Mon Sep 25 08:36:45 2006 From: kristens at cs.cmu.edu (Kristen Schrauder) Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 08:36:45 -0400 Subject: [Research] Next Lab Meeting Message-ID: <002e01c6e09f$42ccfcb0$fadc0280@adm.ri.cmu.edu> Please note that this week's meeting has been moved to Thursday, September 28th at 12pm in NSH 4201. Hope to see you there! _____ From: Kristen Schrauder [mailto:kristens at cs.cmu.edu] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 4:21 PM To: 'research at autonlab.org' Subject: Next Lab Meeting Our next Auton Lab meeting will be on Tuesday, September 26th at 11:30am in NSH A507 (not this coming week but the following week). Dr. Jeff Schneider will be speaking about drug design at Psychogenics. We hope to see you there! Kristen Schrauder, Administrative Coordinator Carnegie Mellon University - Robotics Institute Newell-Simon Hall, Room 3128 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412.268.7551 Fax: 412.268.7350 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kristens at cs.cmu.edu Thu Sep 28 07:24:23 2006 From: kristens at cs.cmu.edu (Kristen Schrauder) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 07:24:23 -0400 Subject: [Research] Next Lab Meeting Message-ID: <001b01c6e2f0$a63cf900$fadc0280@adm.ri.cmu.edu> Just a reminder, the lab meeting will be today (Thursday) in NSH 4201 at 12pm. Thanks! _____ From: Kristen Schrauder [mailto:kristens at cs.cmu.edu] Sent: Monday, September 25, 2006 8:37 AM To: 'research at autonlab.org' Subject: RE: Next Lab Meeting Please note that this week's meeting has been moved to Thursday, September 28th at 12pm in NSH 4201. Hope to see you there! _____ From: Kristen Schrauder [mailto:kristens at cs.cmu.edu] Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2006 4:21 PM To: 'research at autonlab.org' Subject: Next Lab Meeting Our next Auton Lab meeting will be on Tuesday, September 26th at 11:30am in NSH A507 (not this coming week but the following week). Dr. Jeff Schneider will be speaking about drug design at Psychogenics. We hope to see you there! Kristen Schrauder, Administrative Coordinator Carnegie Mellon University - Robotics Institute Newell-Simon Hall, Room 3128 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Phone: 412.268.7551 Fax: 412.268.7350 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From schneide at cs.cmu.edu Thu Sep 28 10:47:28 2006 From: schneide at cs.cmu.edu (Jeff Schneider) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:47:28 -0400 Subject: [Research] Machine Learning in Drug Discovery Message-ID: <451BE080.8050003@cs.cmu.edu> Since I actually have one handy, here's an abstract for today: Machine Learning in in vivo CNS Drug Discovery Researchers in machine learning and operations research have made great strides in modeling and optimization manufacturing and other commercial processes. A more recent trend is to observe that the scientific method is a process that can be modeled and optimized with similar techniques. In this talk we consider a specific example of that: discovery of central nervous system drugs (e.g. antidepressants antipsychotics, anxiolytics, etc.) using in vivo behavioral testing. Algorithms will be discussed in the following areas: the use of kernel density estimators to provide improved posterior probabilities in multi-class applications; the use of semi-supervised learning to handle training data with uncertain class labels; and the use of active learning to control experimentation in the discovery process. From schneide at cs.cmu.edu Thu Sep 28 14:03:41 2006 From: schneide at cs.cmu.edu (Jeff Schneider) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:03:41 -0400 Subject: [Research] Machine Learning in Drug Discovery (punch line!) In-Reply-To: <451BE080.8050003@cs.cmu.edu> References: <451BE080.8050003@cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: <451C0E7D.1080600@cs.cmu.edu> Congratulations to everyone attending the meeting today! You were so successful at fulfilling my request to ask lots of questions and brainstorm on other topics, that I forgot to give the final punch line. Here it is in abbreviated form: Psychogenics has now used this system to screen thousands of compounds. Doing so, they have found about a dozen lead candidates. These are drugs that: 1. Were predicted by SmartCube to be effective in one of the classes. 2. Had their activity successfully confirmed by running two different traditional behavioral tests (in mice) for that class. 3. Are known to work by a novel mechanism because a follow-up in vitro test showed that they do not use any of the mechanisms of drugs currently on the market. These lead candidates were found at a fraction of the time and cost that a large pharmaceutical using existed methods would need. And that answered what was a multi-million dollar question/bet for Psychogenics. Can you develop this system to efficiently find new drugs that work by completely new biological mechanisms. The answer is yes!! Jeff Schneider wrote: > Since I actually have one handy, here's an abstract for today: > > Machine Learning in in vivo CNS Drug Discovery > > Researchers in machine learning and operations research have made great > strides in modeling and optimization manufacturing and other commercial > processes. A more recent trend is to observe that the scientific method > is a process that can be modeled and optimized with similar techniques. > In this talk we consider a specific example of that: discovery of > central nervous system drugs (e.g. antidepressants antipsychotics, > anxiolytics, etc.) using in vivo behavioral testing. Algorithms will be > discussed in the following areas: the use of kernel density estimators > to provide improved posterior probabilities in multi-class applications; > the use of semi-supervised learning to handle training data with > uncertain class labels; and the use of active learning to control > experimentation in the discovery process. > > _______________________________________________ > Research mailing list > Research at autonlab.org > https://www.autonlab.org/mailman/listinfo/research > From kristens at cs.cmu.edu Thu Sep 28 17:02:28 2006 From: kristens at cs.cmu.edu (kristens at cs.cmu.edu) Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:02:28 -0400 (EDT) Subject: [Research] Bonus Meeting Message-ID: <1123.24.3.108.154.1159477348.squirrel@webmail.cs.cmu.edu> We will be having a bonus Auton Lab meeting next week. It will be on Tuesday, October 3rd at 11:30am in NSH 1507. Kaustav and John will be talking about PIERS data. We hope to see you there!