From kristens at cs.cmu.edu Fri Jan 5 12:34:35 2007 From: kristens at cs.cmu.edu (Kristen Schrauder) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 12:34:35 -0500 Subject: [Research] Spring Semester Auton Lab Meetings Message-ID: <007c01c730ef$c4ad09a0$fadc0280@adm.ri.cmu.edu> Happy New Year! I'm just touching base to see if 11:30am on Tuesdays is still a good choice for the lab meetings. We currently have NSH 1507 reserved for that day and time each week but if there are many new conflicts we will start to look for a new time slot. Thank you in advance for your feedback! 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 awm at google.com Wed Jan 10 08:32:03 2007 From: awm at google.com (Andrew W. Moore) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2007 08:32:03 -0500 Subject: [Research] Fwd: Full-time Positions at Honda Research Institute USA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <982f89350701100532s19867597pa264b1d61a198023@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Intern at honda-ri.com Date: Jan 9, 2007 8:54 PM Subject: Full-time Positions at Honda Research Institute USA To: TYasui at hra.com Dear Professors and Faculties, Currently we have a couple of openings for Researcher/Programmer at Honda Research Institute USA, Mountain View, California. Would you please refer to the details of job positions in the attached file. I would appreciate it if you could forward it to appropriate persons. Your kind cooperation would be greatly appreciated. Best regards, ******************************************* Takeshi Yasui Corporate Secretary Honda Research Institute USA, Inc. 800 California Street, Suite300 Mountain View, CA 94041 Tel: 650-314-0434 (Direct) Cell Phone: 650-906-6996 e-mail: tyasui at honda-ri.com ******************************************** *(See attached file: Honda.Research.2.Positions.2007.pdf)* -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Honda.Research.2.Positions.2007.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 104334 bytes Desc: not available URL: From kristens at cs.cmu.edu Fri Jan 12 15:46:26 2007 From: kristens at cs.cmu.edu (Kristen Schrauder) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:46:26 -0500 Subject: [Research] Auton Lab Meeting Times Message-ID: <010501c7368a$bab0e390$fadc0280@adm.ri.cmu.edu> It's that time again, time to pick a day for the biweekly Auton Lab Meetings :-) Below are your choices, please respond with you preferences: Mondays at 4:30pm Tuesdays at 11:30am Thursdays at 12pm Thanks in advance for your participation! 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 awm at google.com Tue Jan 16 08:55:31 2007 From: awm at google.com (Andrew W. Moore) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:55:31 -0500 Subject: [Research] Fwd: Call for summer interns in computer vision at Microsoft Research (Redmond) In-Reply-To: <8BC463DAE5D85E40B762DA955D01262C092C67DD9D@NA-EXMSG-C107.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> References: <8BC463DAE5D85E40B762DA955D01262C092C67DD9D@NA-EXMSG-C107.redmond.corp.microsoft.com> Message-ID: <982f89350701160555p645f2152s76eaeee19905c4a5@mail.gmail.com> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Larry Zitnick Date: Jan 15, 2007 1:33 PM Subject: Call for summer interns in computer vision at Microsoft Research (Redmond) To: "frey at psi.toronto.edu" , "jordan at cs.berkeley.edu" , "russell at cs.berkeley.edu" , "koller at CS.Stanford.EDU" , "tommi at ai.mit.edu" < tommi at ai.mit.edu>, "zoubin at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk" , " hinton at gatsby.ucl.ac.uk" , "awm at cs.cmu.edu" < awm at cs.cmu.edu>, "afb at cc.gatech.edu" , "axs at cs.cmu.edu" < axs at cs.cmu.edu>, "az at robots.ox.ac.uk" , " bregler at cs.stanford.edu" , "brooks at ai.mit.edu" < brooks at ai.mit.edu>, "brown at cs.rochester.edu" , " dnm at graphics.cis.upenn.edu" , " dph at cs.cornell.edu" , "dt at cs.toronto.edu" < dt at cs.toronto.edu>, "dyer at cs.wisc.edu" , " flynn at ee.eng.ohio-state.edu" , " hager at cs.jhu.edu" , "hanrahan at cs.stanford.edu" < hanrahan at cs.stanford.edu>, "hebert at ri.cmu.edu" , " huang at ifp.uiuc.edu" , "hugh at mech.eng.usyd.edu.au" < hugh at mech.eng.usyd.edu.au>, "irfan at cc.gatech.edu" , " jb141 at eng.cam.ac.uk" , "Jepson at cs.toronto.edu" < Jepson at cs.toronto.edu>, "kanade at cs.cmu.edu" , " ki at iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp" , "kriegman at uiuc.edu" < kriegman at uiuc.edu>, "levoy at cs.stanford.edu" , " Long.Quan at inrialpes.fr" , "lsd at umiacs.umd.edu" < lsd at umiacs.umd.edu>, "malik at cs.berkeley.edu" , " medioni at iris.usc.edu" , "mcmillan at graphics.lcs.mit.edu" , "nayar at cs.columbia.edu" < nayar at cs.columbia.edu>, "Olivier.Faugeras at sophia.inria.fr" < Olivier.Faugeras at sophia.inria.fr>, "peleg at cs.huji.ac.il" < peleg at cs.huji.ac.il>, "perona at systems.caltech.edu" < perona at gladstone.systems.caltech.edu>, "Roger.Mohr at inria.fr" < Roger.Mohr at inria.fr>, "sandy at media.mit.edu" , " seth at lcs.mit.edu" , "thorpe at ri.cmu.edu" , "tomasi at cs.stanford.edu" , "tp at ai.mit.edu" < tp at ai.mit.edu>, "welg at ai.mit.edu" , "dnister at cs.uky.edu" < dnister at cs.uky.edu>, "marc at cs.unc.edu" , "efros at cs.cmu.edu" , "rehg at cc.gatech.edu" , " seitz at cs.washington.edu" , " maneesh at eecs.berkeley.edu" , "billf at mit.edu" < billf at mit.edu>, "fredo at mit.edu" , "rdz at cs.cornell.edu" < rdz at cs.cornell.edu>, "sjg at cs.harvard.edu" , " deussen at inf.tu-dresden.de" Cc: MSR Interactive Visual Media Group , Paul Viola , Gang Hua , Robert Sim < rsim at microsoft.com>, Cha Zhang , Zhengyou Zhang < zhang at microsoft.com> Please forward as appropriate. Microsoft Research, Redmond, has several openings this summer for internships in computer vision. We are looking for students with interest and research experience in: ? object recognition ? feature extraction ? optimization algorithms ? 3D modeling ? optical flow ? computational photography ? video communications ? human activity understanding ? audio-visual interaction. For details on our group and other projects, please see the MSR websites ( http://www.research.microsoft.com/vision/InteractiveVisualMediaGroup/ , http://research.microsoft.com/ccs/ ). Located on Microsoft's campus in Redmond, near Seattle, Washington, Microsoft Research is dedicated to basic and applied research in computer science. We strive to make our internships fun (group activities), productive (good research with publications), and profitable (subsidized housing and transportation). If interested, please e-mail a cover letter to Larry Zitnick ( larryz at microsoft.com) containing your research interests. The subject of all messages concerning your application should be "Vision Intern: ", e.g., "Vision Intern: David Marr". In addition, please provide a CV along with two letters of recommendation to Microsoft's online internship application site: https://research.microsoft.com/aboutmsr/jobs/internships/apply/ Offers of internships will be made on a "rolling admissions" basis, so it is to your advantage to apply early. The hard deadline is February 28, 2007; we expect to have all responses out by the end of March. Note, this announcement only addresses candidates applying to computer vision internships at MSR's Redmond campus, summer 2007. Best regards, -Larry -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awm at google.com Wed Jan 17 13:36:38 2007 From: awm at google.com (Andrew W. Moore) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:36:38 -0500 Subject: [Research] Fwd: Smart People to join PTI In-Reply-To: <2402CEEF03C8634DA6AD09813BD974A7068933B4@PTI0012.ptilabs.com> References: <2402CEEF03C8634DA6AD09813BD974A7068933B4@PTI0012.ptilabs.com> Message-ID: <982f89350701171036o6ef6ded7h57271f707e5c71f5@mail.gmail.com> Diane, Auton Lab, PTI is a small company in Pittsburgh. It does very interesting bioinformatics and micro-array work and has what looks to me like a promising product. They're looking for a data manager and a bio-statistician type. Best wishes, Andrew ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Gabrin, Michael Date: Jan 17, 2007 12:36 PM Subject: Smart People to join PTI To: awm at google.com Andrew Hope you had a terrific holiday season. I have a couple of tough positions to add in my 07 budget. I've attached the job descriptions for the positions. One is more of a data manager/analyst, the other a bioinformaticcs/statisticians role. If you could please pass these around in the smart people circles that you circulate in and let me know of any candidates that you think highly of that fit the bill, I'd very much appreciate it. Thanks in advance for your help Mike Gabrin PTI -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: INFORM~2.DOC Type: application/msword Size: 50688 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: BIOINF~3.DOC Type: application/msword Size: 53248 bytes Desc: not available URL: From awm at google.com Wed Jan 17 09:07:13 2007 From: awm at google.com (Andrew W. Moore) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 09:07:13 -0500 Subject: [Research] Fwd: Analytic Software opportunities with our company In-Reply-To: <25036FE66F7FC74F9F1FD40B36A1D1FC06692948@STPMSGMB00.corp.fairisaac.com> References: <25036FE66F7FC74F9F1FD40B36A1D1FC06692948@STPMSGMB00.corp.fairisaac.com> Message-ID: <982f89350701170607g249d03va0ce8c3f5ab30502@mail.gmail.com> FairIsaac is, to my knowledge, a very good company doing text and social net applications pretty successfully. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: MacDonald, Susan L Date: Jan 17, 2007 8:55 AM Subject: re: Analytic Software opportunities with our company To: awm at cs.cmu.edu Dear Andrew, My name is Susan MacDonald and I am a Corporate Recruiter with Fair Isaac Corporation. I received your contact information from one of our high level Analytic Science hiring managers. I would like to network with you to see if you may know of anyone interested in Analytic Science opportunities and who will be in the job market soon. We have quite a bit of openings and would love to see if you may know anyone that my be looking. Thank you for your time. Sincerely, *Susan MacDonald* *Recruiting Solutions Lead* Fair Isaac Corporation Ph: 972-200-5089 Fx: 858-523-4415 http://www.fairisaac.com This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential, proprietary and intended solely for the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please delete it immediately. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From awd at cs.cmu.edu Wed Jan 24 15:08:06 2007 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 15:08:06 -0500 Subject: [Research] Lab meeting: Thursday 1/25/07 @ 12:00 (noon), WeH 4625 Message-ID: <1169669286.10528.36.camel@localhost> Tomorrow we will have the first Auton Lab meeting in 2007! Place and time as indicated in the subject line. Speaker: Sajid Siddiqi. Topic: "My contribution to the 15% increase of Intel's stock price between June and September of 2006. An informal presentation." Artur From awd at cs.cmu.edu Thu Jan 25 09:57:33 2007 From: awd at cs.cmu.edu (Artur Dubrawski) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:57:33 -0500 Subject: [Research] [Fwd: Thesis Proposal - Brent Bryan - 1/29/07] Message-ID: <1169737053.3479.0.camel@localhost> -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: Diane Stidle Subject: Thesis Proposal - Brent Bryan - 1/29/07 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 09:37:34 -0500 Size: 6751 URL: From schneide at cs.cmu.edu Mon Jan 29 09:37:57 2007 From: schneide at cs.cmu.edu (Jeff Schneider) Date: Mon, 29 Jan 2007 09:37:57 -0500 Subject: [Research] Reminder - Brent Bryan Thesis Proposal Today at 11:00AM - 1/29/07] Message-ID: <45BE06C5.40904@cs.cmu.edu> Please join us for Brent's thesis proposal this morning at 11am. Jeff. -------------------------------------------------------------- Date: January 29, 2007 Time: 11:00 Place: 1507 NSH PhD Candidate: Brent Bryan Title: Active Learning Search Strategies for Computing Level Sets: Determining Large-Scale Joint Confidence Interval Computations Abstract: In many scientific applications, one less interested in determining the point which maximizes a function, but rather desires to know the set of all points which are above some specified level set. For example, consider the task of computing the set of parameters for a given parameterized model which fit some observed data reasonably well. If we have an oracle which can tell us fit ``goodness'' as a function of input parameters, this problem becomes that of determining the level set which delineates those models that fit well from those that do not. In astrophysics, we can use this idea to study the early universe as well as galactic history. By computing confidence intervals for parameterized models in the first case, astronomers can determine the age, composition and eventual fate of the universe, while for the second query astronomers hope to decipher how galaxies form and evolve over time. While, several techniques have been developed to compute the level set of a function, most are either inefficient, or lack convergence guarantees for finite sample sizes (or both). For instance, one common way to compute confidence intervals, is to use MCMC. However, MCMC is known to possibly converge to incorrect solutions with limited chain sizes. Additionally, MCMC is a procedure for sampling from a posterior distribution, and as such, it draws a large number of experiments from regions that are well away from the boundary of the confidence region, reducing its efficiency. Instead, we propose a frequentist based technique that combines statistical hypothesis tests with an active learning framework to specifically explore the confidence region boundary, while simultaneously sampling the remaining parameter space sufficiently to prove the convergence of the algorithm with a finite number of samples. In this thesis, we will develop an active learning framework to efficiently compute function level sets. We will demonstrate the utility of the derived framework by developing a frequentist-based statistical inference technique to efficiently compute confidence intervals for model parameters with respect to some observed data. We then extend this framework to handle the simultaneous computation of confidence intervals for millions of galaxies. Additionally, we will develop algorithms to prove that the resulting intervals are correct within some predefined tolerance. Thesis Committee: Jeff Schneider (Chair) Chris Genovese Andrew Moore (Google) Chris Miller (Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory, Chile) Bob Nichol (Institute of Cosmology and Gravitation, University of Portsmouth) Larry Wasserman -- ******************************************************************* Diane Stidle Business & Graduate Programs Manager Machine Learning Department School of Computer Science 4612 Wean Hall Carnegie Mellon University 5000 Forbes Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891 Phone: 412-268-1299 Fax: 412-268-3431 Email: diane at cs.cmu.edu URL:http://www.ml.cmu.edu