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Friday, Dec 1
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AM
7:30-7:35  Welcome
7:35-8:05  Tom Mitchell (invited talk) - "Situated Learning"
8:05-8:25  Lorien Pratt    - "Neural Transfer For Hazardous Waste"
8:25-8:45  Nathan Intrator - "Learning Internal Reps From Multiple Tasks"
8:45-9:05  Rich Caruana    - "Where is Multitask Learning Useful?"
9:05-9:30  Panel Debate and Discussion -
           Topics include:  serial vs. parallel transfer,
                            what should be transfered?
                            what domains are ripe for transfer?
                            what are the goals of transfer?
           (Baxter, Caruana, Intrator, Mitchell, Silver, Pratt, ...)

9:30-4:30  Extracurricular Recreation

PM
4:30-5:00  Jude Shavlik (invited talk) - "Talking to Your Neural Net"
5:00-5:20  Leo Breiman  (invited talk) - "Curds & Whey"
5:20-5:40  Jonathan Baxter - "Bayesian Model of Learning to Learn"
5:40-6:00  Sebastian Thrun - "Identifying Relevant Tasks"
6:00-6:30  Panel Debate and Discussion -
           Topics include:  transfer human to machine vs. machine to machine,
                            is practice meeting theory?
                            is theory meeting practice?
           (Baxter, Caruana, Breiman, Thrun, Mitchell, Shavlik, ...)

Saturday, Dec 2
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AM         
7:30-8:00  Noel Sharkey (invited talk) - "Adaptive Generalisation"
8:00-8:20  Anthony Robbins  - "Rehearsal and Catastrophic Interference"
8:20-8:40  J. Schmidhuber   - "A Theoretical Model of Learning to Learn"
8:40-9:00  Bairaktaris/Levy - "Dual-weight ANNs: Short/Long Term Learning"
9:00-9:30  Panel Debate and Discussion - 
           Topics include:  catastrophic interference,
                            is there evidence for transfer in cognition?
                            what can nature/cogsci tell us about transfer?
           (Bairaktaris, de Sa, Levy, Robbins, Sharkey, Silver, ...)

9:30-4:30  More Extracurricular Recreation

PM
4:30-5:00  Tomaso Poggio (invited talk) - "Virtual Examples"
5:00-5:20  Virginia de Sa - "On Segregating Input Dimensions"
5:20-5:40  Chris Thornton - "Learning to be Brave: A Constructive Approach"
5:40-6:00  Mark Ring      - "Continual Learning"
6:00-6:25  Panel Debate and Discussion -
           Topics include:  combining supervised and unsupervised learning,
                            where do we go from here?
                            *this space intentionally left flexible*
           (de Sa, Mitchell, Poggio, Ring, Thornton, ...)
6:25-6:30  Farewell

Full titles and abstracts are available on the workshop web page.

20 minute talks are 12 minutes presentation and 8 minutes questions
and discussion.  30 minute invited talks are 20 minutes presentation
and 10 minutes questions and discussion.  There are four 30-minute
panels, one for each session.  Although topics are listed for each
panel, these are intended merely as points of departure.  Everyone
attending the workshop should feel free to raise any issues during the
panels that seem appropriate.  We encourage speakers and members of
the audience to prepare a terse list (preferably using inflammatory
language) of your favorite transfer issues and questions.

There are 16 talks, but this is not a conference!  If speakers don't
abuse their question/discussion time too much, more than 50% of the
workshop will be spent on questions and discussion.  To promote this,
talks will use few slides and will focus on a few key issues.  It's a
workshop.  Come preapred to speak up, be controversial, and have fun.

Look forward to seeing you at Vail.

-Danny, Jon, Lori, Rich, Sebastian, and Tom.