Today: visit & talk by Singularity Institute
by Announcements of talks＠IDSIA
Dear colleagues,
Our visitors from the Singularity Institute <http://singularity.org/#>
are on their way to IDSIA and will be giving a short talk at the
following time:
*WHEN*: Friday 14 December; 14:45 (sharp!) to 15:15
*WHERE*: Room 222, Galleria 1 (that's our big lecture room)
*ABOUT THE SINGULARITY INSTITUTE*:
Since 2000, Singularity Institute has been a leader in studying the
impact of advanced
artificial intelligence on the future. We have expanded to become a
networking center for
scientists, entrepreneurs, and investors involved in emerging
technologies. Our annual
conference, the Singularity Summit, attracts about 1,000 attendees, with
coverage from
top media such as TIME, NPR, Scientific American, Forbes, Wired, and The
New York
Times.
Every year, machines surpass human ability in new domains. When they
surpass our
ability to design artificial intelligence, they will be able to
recursively improve their own
intelligence in a way that could quickly lead to vastly more intelligent
agents — an
‘intelligence explosion’. If these agents are programmed with stable,
beneficial goals, their arrival could bring unprecedented well-being to
Earth and beyond.
Writing about the growing Singularity movement in a 2010 New York Times
op-ed, cyberspace pioneer Jaron Lanier wrote,
“These are ideas with tremendous currency in Silicon Valley; these are
guiding
principles, not just amusements, for many of the most influential
technologists.”
Singularity Institute exists to ensure that the powerful effects of
advanced machine
intelligence are beneficial for society. Our research and academic
outreach has set the
agenda for this important project concerning the future of humanity, and
we see many
opportunities in the future for additional progress.
Groeten,
Bas
On 14/12/2012 10:16, Bas Steunebrink wrote:
> Unfortunately, due to the snowfall, the speakers cannot be here at the
> announced time. I do not know yet when they will arrive, but I will
> let you know as soon as I know more.
>
> Groeten,
> Bas
>
>
> On 14/12/2012 07:33, Bas Steunebrink wrote:
>>
>> Dear colleagues,
>>
>> I am pleased to announce that 4 members of the Singularity Institute
>> <http://singularity.org/#> will be visiting IDSIA this Friday. They
>> will start their visit by giving a short talk:
>>
>> *WHEN*: Friday 14 December; 11:30-12:00
>> *WHERE*: Room 222, Galleria 1 (that's our big lecture room)
>>
>> Then in the afternoon they will be available for discussions with
>> IDSIAni interested in the impacts and safety of future developments
>> in AI.
>>
>> Groeten,
>> Bas
>
11 years, 4 months
Delayed: today visit & talk by Singularity Institute
by Announcements of talks＠IDSIA
Unfortunately, due to the snowfall, the speakers cannot be here at the
announced time. I do not know yet when they will arrive, but I will let
you know as soon as I know more.
Groeten,
Bas
On 14/12/2012 07:33, Bas Steunebrink wrote:
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> I am pleased to announce that 4 members of the Singularity Institute
> <http://singularity.org/#> will be visiting IDSIA this Friday. They
> will start their visit by giving a short talk:
>
> *WHEN*: Friday 14 December; 11:30-12:00
> *WHERE*: Room 222, Galleria 1 (that's our big lecture room)
>
> Then in the afternoon they will be available for discussions with
> IDSIAni interested in the impacts and safety of future developments in AI.
>
> Groeten,
> Bas
11 years, 4 months
Reminder: today visit & talk by Singularity Institute
by Announcements of talks＠IDSIA
Bas Steunebrink <bas(a)idsia.ch> schreef:Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that 4 members of the Singularity Institute will be visiting IDSIA this Friday. They will start their visit by giving a short talk:
WHEN: Friday 14 December; 11:30-12:00
WHERE: Room 222, Galleria 1 (that's our big lecture room)
Then in the afternoon they will be available for discussions with IDSIAni interested in the impacts and safety of future developments in AI.
Groeten,
Bas
11 years, 4 months
Today: Fabio D'Andreagiovanni - Robust Optimization under Multi-band Uncertainty
by Announcements of talks＠IDSIA
Dear All,
I'm pleased to announce a talk by Fabio D'Andreagiovanni, from the Zuse
Institut Berlin (ZIB), Germany.
WHEN: Today, Dec 12; 15:45-16:30
WHERE: IDSIA's conference room
TITLE: Robust Optimization under Multi-band Uncertainty
SPEAKER: Fabio D'Andreagiovanni, fZuse Institut Berlin (ZIB), Germany.
ABSTRACT:
“The Price of Robustness” by Bertsimas and Sim represented a breakthrough
in the development of a tractable robust counterpart of a Linear
Programming problem. However, the central assumptions that the deviation
band of each uncertain parameter is single and that the uncertainty
distribution is symmetric may be too limitative in practice. Experience
indeed suggests that the deviations often distribute asymmetrically over
the band. Breaking the band into multiple sub-bands thus looks advisable in
order to get a higher modeling resolution. Surprisingly, though the idea of
using multiple bands is not new, no theoretical study of a general
multi-band model has yet been done. The aim of our investigations is to
bridge such knowledge gap.
In this work, we study the robust counterpart of a Mixed-Integer Linear
Programming Problem with uncertain coefficient matrix and we model the
uncertainty through a multi-band set. Our main results are that i) the
robust counterpart corresponds to a compact Linear Programming formulation
and that ii) the separation of cuts imposing robustness can be operated
efficiently by solving a min-cost flow problem. Moreover, we show
additional results about domination among uncertainty scenarios, pure 0-1
Programs and probability bound of constraint violation. Finally, we present
computational experiments on realistic network design instances.
REFERENCES
D. Bertsimas, M. Sim, The Price of Robustness, Operations Research, 52 (1),
35–53, 2004
C. Büsing, F. D'Andreagiovanni, New Results about Multi-band Uncertainty in
Robust Optimization. Proceedings of SEA 2012, LNCS, vol. 7276, pp.
63-74. Springer,
Heidelberg (2012)
C. Büsing, F. D'Andreagiovanni, Robust Optimization under Multi-band
Uncertainty, submitted for publication (2012)
11 years, 4 months
this Friday: visit & talk by Singularity Institute
by Announcements of talks＠IDSIA
Dear colleagues,
I am pleased to announce that 4 members of the Singularity Institute
<http://singularity.org/#> will be visiting IDSIA this Friday. They will
start their visit by giving a short talk:
*WHEN*: Friday 14 December; 11:30-12:00
*WHERE*: Room 222, Galleria 1 (that's our big lecture room)
Then in the afternoon they will be available for discussions with
IDSIAni interested in the impacts and safety of future developments in AI.
Groeten,
Bas
11 years, 4 months