Kanade Symposium

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Berger Auditorium, Skirkanich Hall

210 South 33rd Street

Schedule of Events

8:30                      Continental  Breakfast Greenburg Lounge
                              210 South 33rd Street 1st Floor Mezzanine Level

9:00 am                Dennis Wint (Ph.D., President and CEO, The Franklin Institute)
                              few minutes of Franklin Institute update and thank-you’s.

Invited Speakers

9:15 - 10:00        CJ Taylor, Associate Professor and Undergraduate Group Chair
                          GRASP Laboratory Computer and Information Science Department
                          University of Pennsylvania

10:00 - 11:00      Mathew Mason Professor of Computer Science and Robotics
                           and Director of the Robotics Institute
                           Carnegie Mellon University

11:00  - 12:00    Takeo Kanade

                          U.A. and Helen Whitaker University Professor 

                          Carnegie Mellon University

12:00 - 3:00       Lunch and Open House GRASP Lab
                           4th Floor Levine Hall
                          3330 Walnut Street

Pearl Symposium

Thursday, April 17th, 2008
10:30 am - 2:30 pm
IRCS

3401 Walnut Street, Room 400A

Schedule of Events

10:30am -            Dennis Wint (Ph.D., President and CEO, The Franklin Institute)
                             few minutes of Franklin Institute update and thank-you’s.

10:40am -           Michael Kearns Professor of Computer and Information Science Department
                             University of Pennsylvania
                             National Center Chair in Resource Management and Technology
                             Secondary Appointment, Operations and Information Management, Wharton School

                             http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~mkearns/

                            Talk: Graphical Models and Game Theory

11:20am -            Michael Jordan Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor
                             Department of Electrical Engineering Computer Science
                             Department of Statistics
                             University of California, Berkeley

                             http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/

                            Talk:  " Nonparametric Graphical Models"

               

12:00pm -             Lunch - IRCS 3401 Walnut Street

12:30pm -           A. Philip Dawid, Professor of Statistics, Statistical Laboratory,

                           Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge

                            http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~apd/ (or http://tinyurl.com/2maycn).

                            Talk:   "Interpreting complex DNA profile evidence: Bayesian networks to the rescue "

1:10pm -             Judea Pearl Professor Computer Science Department , Cognitive Systems Lab

                            University of California, Los Angeles

                            http://bayes.cs.ucla.edu/jp_home.html

                            Talk:   "From Simpson's Paradox to Actions, Decisions, and Free Will"

2:20pm -             Close

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