research positions available
Juergen Schmidhuber
juergen at idsia.ch
Wed Mar 8 05:53:31 EST 1995
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| Research positions available |
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Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale
(IDSIA) in beautiful Lugano (Switzerland) is starting up
research projects in (1) reinforcement learning and evolutionary
computation, and (2) supervised and unsupervised neural nets.
We offer research positions at various levels (beginning now):
1. 1 postdoc or up to 2 PhD students,
2. A few undergrad students.
The initial contracts will last until the end of this year,
with a possible extension of 2 more years. Temporary visits
(for a few months) by visiting researchers/students are also
possible.
Send CV, list of publications (if applicable), brief statement of
research interests, and names/email addresses of references to:
juergen at idsia.ch
Postscript preferred.
DEADLINE: March 31 1995.
Earlier applications preferred.
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To check whether you share our research interests, have a
look at these recent papers:
1. ``On learning how to learn learning strategies''
FTP-host: flop.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (131.159.8.35)
FTP-filename: /pub/fki/fki-198-94.ps.gz (use gunzip to uncompress)
2. ``Flat minimum search finds simple nets'' (fki-200-94.ps.gz)
3. ``Semilinear predictability minimization produces orientation
sensitive edge detectors'' (fki-201-94.ps.gz)
4. ``Ant_Q: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Combinatorial
Optimization''
FTP-host: fava.idsia.ch (192.132.252.1)
FTP-filename: /pub/ant_q/TR.09-ANT-Q.ps.gz
Papers 1-3 and others (and a list of publications) can also be
retrieved from
http://papa.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/mitarbeiter/schmidhu.html
or from
http://www.idsia.ch/people/juergen.html
A significant part of the initial research will focus on the
``incremental self-improvement paradigm'' described in paper 1.
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New address since March 1:
Juergen Schmidhuber
IDSIA
Corso Elvezia 36
6900-Lugano
Switzerland
juergen at idsia.ch
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