PIDSIA tomorrow (27.6.18) by G.M. Randazzo
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Please, all my apologises for the late information
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*Speaker:
Giuseppe Marco Randazzo (IDSIA)
*Title:
Cheminformatics: the art of transforming chemistry into information
*Abstract:
Information are essential in our everyday life.
With them, languages represent the basis to assert or deny facts.
Like people speak about something also the surrounding nature
tell us something with is own language, the “chemical language”.
As "Wittgenstein” reported in the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
(4.002) “Everyday language is a part of the human organism and
is no less complicated than it.” we will have a walk inside the
chemical language and we will discover how we can infer
biological knowledges from molecular structures.
*Bio:
Giuseppe Marco Randazzo is researcher at the IDSIA institute since November 2017.
Prior to this position he was at the University of Geneva with a postdoctoral fellowship position.
He has developed chemoinformatic and molecular modelling technologies
in Metabolomics studies and natural products bioactivity prediction.
In 2013 he got a PhD in chemical sciences under the supervision
of prof. Gabriele Cruciani at the university of Perugia.
Previously he studied chemistry and physical-organic chemistry
at the university of Catania and Perugia.
*When:
Thursday 27th of June 2018, 12:00-13:00
*Location:
Manno, Galleria 1, 2nd floor, room G1-204
*Registration:
Pizza (or alternative food) and drinks will be offered at the end of the talk. If you plan to attend, please register in a timely fashion at the following link so that we will have no shortage of food:
https://doodle.com/poll/ukww5scaewhb9h6b
6 years, 6 months
Reminder: PIDSIA Seminar on Educational Robotics
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Dear all,
remember the PIDSIA is later today!
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*Speakers:
Alberto Piatti, Lucio Negrini, Christian Giang, Alessandro Giusti,
Jerome Guzzi, Alan Kueng. SUPSI-DFA and SUPSI-IDSIA
*Title:
Educational Robotics at IDSIA
*Abstract:
Since the pioneristic work of Seymour Papert, Mindstorms: Children,
Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980), the idea of using robots in
education has grown steadily and is nowadays a very important
interdisciplinary field of research, at the crossing between
educational sciences and robotics, known under the name of Educational
robotics.
At the beginning of the present academic year, a group of teachers -
researchers of IDSIA and of the Dipartimento Formazione e
Apprendimento of SUPSI (university of teacher education of Southern
Switzerland) has been established, with the aim of developing the
competences of SUPSI in this field. In few months, the group, in
collaboration with the EPFL, has already obtained two research
projects: (i) a project of the SNF program Agora, named Introducing
People to Research in Robotics through an Extended Peer Community in
Southern Switzerland (the project proposal has been awarded with the
Optimus Agora Award) and a project, named Robotics Teacher Community
(ROTECO), founded by the Swiss Academies of Sciences. Both projects
are based on the use of the educational roboto Thymio, that has been
developed by the EPFL.
During this PIDSIA, we will present briefly the field of educational
robotics, the members of our group, the two projects that will start
in september 2018 and the educational robot thymio.
*When:
Wed 13th of June 2018, 12:00-13:00 (today)
*Location:
Manno, Galleria 1, 2nd floor, room G1-204
*Registration:
Pizza (or alternative food) and drinks will be offered at the end of
the talk. If you plan to attend, register immediately (last call) at
https://doodle.com/poll/n5kzcrkbcfdgmay5
Don't be fooled by the wrong date in the poll. The PIDSIA is today.
6 years, 6 months
Bayesian Networks in OpenCOSSAN (Thursday, June 7, 2pm)
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*Speaker:
Diego Estrada (University of Liverpool)
*Title:
Bayesian networks in OpenCOSSAN
*Abstract:
This talk will be about the implementation of Bayesian networks in the
multipurpose software OpenCossan. After a brief introduction about the
software and its origins, we will show the different methods available
in the software, the different types of data supported and types of
output produced, together with some applications to risk analysis.
Finally, we will discuss the reasons for implementing an algorithm for
approximate inference in credal networks within our software and
discuss a possible collaboration between IDSIA and the IRU of the
University of Liverpool.
*When:
Thursday 7th of June 2018, 2pm-2.30pm
*Location:
Manno, Galleria 1, 2nd floor, room G1-201
*Links:
https://cossan.co.uk/
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/risk-and-uncertainty/
*Host:
Alessandro Antonucci
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Alessandro Antonucci
IDSIA
Dalle Molle Institute
for Artificial Intelligence
Via Cantonale (Galleria 2)
CH-6928, Manno-Lugano, CH
mail: alessandro(a)idsia.ch
skype: alessandro.antonucci
tel: +41 916108515
web: www.idsia.ch/~alessandro
_________________________________
6 years, 6 months
Re: [Talks@IDSIA] Next week: PIDSIA Seminar on Educational Robotics (13.6)
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Please note that the day is a Wednesday, not a Thursday as I wrote in
the description:
*When:
Wednesday 13th of June 2018, 12:00-13:00
Sorry for the mistake
On Tue, Jun 5, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Alessandro Giusti <alessandrog(a)idsia.ch> wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> After this Thursday's PIDSIA, we will have another PIDSIA next week!
>
> *Speakers:
> Alberto Piatti, Lucio Negrini, Christian Giang, Alessandro Giusti,
> Jerome Guzzi, Alan Kueng. SUPSI-DFA and SUPSI-IDSIA
>
> *Title:
> Educational Robotics at IDSIA
>
> *Abstract:
> Since the pioneristic work of Seymour Papert, Mindstorms: Children,
> Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980), the idea of using robots in
> education has grown steadily and is nowadays a very important
> interdisciplinary field of research, at the crossing between
> educational sciences and robotics, known under the name of Educational
> robotics.
> At the beginning of the present academic year, a group of teachers -
> researchers of IDSIA and of the Dipartimento Formazione e
> Apprendimento of SUPSI (university of teacher education of Southern
> Switzerland) has been established, with the aim of developing the
> competences of SUPSI in this field. In few months, the group, in
> collaboration with the EPFL, has already obtained two research
> projects: (i) a project of the SNF program Agora, named Introducing
> People to Research in Robotics through an Extended Peer Community in
> Southern Switzerland (the project proposal has been awarded with the
> Optimus Agora Award) and a project, named Robotics Teacher Community
> (ROTECO), founded by the Swiss Academies of Sciences. Both projects
> are based on the use of the educational roboto Thymio, that has been
> developed by the EPFL.
> During this PIDSIA, we will present briefly the field of educational
> robotics, the members of our group, the two projects that will start
> in september 2018 and the educational robot thymio.
>
> *When:
> Thursday 13th of June 2018, 12:00-13:00
>
> *Location:
> Manno, Galleria 1, 2nd floor, room G1-204
>
> *Registration:
> Pizza (or alternative food) and drinks will be offered at the end of
> the talk. If you plan to attend, please register in a timely fashion
> at the following link so that we will have no shortage of food:
> https://doodle.com/poll/n5kzcrkbcfdgmay5
6 years, 6 months
Next week: PIDSIA Seminar on Educational Robotics (13.6)
by Announcements of talks＠IDSIA
Dear all,
After this Thursday's PIDSIA, we will have another PIDSIA next week!
*Speakers:
Alberto Piatti, Lucio Negrini, Christian Giang, Alessandro Giusti,
Jerome Guzzi, Alan Kueng. SUPSI-DFA and SUPSI-IDSIA
*Title:
Educational Robotics at IDSIA
*Abstract:
Since the pioneristic work of Seymour Papert, Mindstorms: Children,
Computers, and Powerful Ideas (1980), the idea of using robots in
education has grown steadily and is nowadays a very important
interdisciplinary field of research, at the crossing between
educational sciences and robotics, known under the name of Educational
robotics.
At the beginning of the present academic year, a group of teachers -
researchers of IDSIA and of the Dipartimento Formazione e
Apprendimento of SUPSI (university of teacher education of Southern
Switzerland) has been established, with the aim of developing the
competences of SUPSI in this field. In few months, the group, in
collaboration with the EPFL, has already obtained two research
projects: (i) a project of the SNF program Agora, named Introducing
People to Research in Robotics through an Extended Peer Community in
Southern Switzerland (the project proposal has been awarded with the
Optimus Agora Award) and a project, named Robotics Teacher Community
(ROTECO), founded by the Swiss Academies of Sciences. Both projects
are based on the use of the educational roboto Thymio, that has been
developed by the EPFL.
During this PIDSIA, we will present briefly the field of educational
robotics, the members of our group, the two projects that will start
in september 2018 and the educational robot thymio.
*When:
Thursday 13th of June 2018, 12:00-13:00
*Location:
Manno, Galleria 1, 2nd floor, room G1-204
*Registration:
Pizza (or alternative food) and drinks will be offered at the end of
the talk. If you plan to attend, please register in a timely fashion
at the following link so that we will have no shortage of food:
https://doodle.com/poll/n5kzcrkbcfdgmay5
6 years, 6 months
ROOM CHANGE, PIDSIA Seminar by Franz Berto (7.6)
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Dear all,
the room of the next PIDSIA, this Thursday 7th of June, 12.00- 13:00, has changed.
The presentation by Franz Berto will take place on room G1-201 (it is the room just in front of the usual G1-204).
here below, the updated informations:
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*Speaker:
Franz Berto (U. St Andrews & ILLC, U. Amsterdam)
*Title:
Half Empty vs Half Full: Belief Revision and the Framing Effect
*Abstract:
The dominant logical theory of belief revision, AGM (Alchourron, Gärdenfors and Makinson), imposes an amount of idealisation on cognitive agents revising their beliefs in the light of new information: their belief states are perfectly consistent, closed under the full force of classical logic, and they know all logical truths. Humans are not like that: they can hold inconsistent beliefs; their belief states are not classically closed; and they can be subject to framing effects, revising their beliefs in different ways when presented with logically equivalent options (‘If you apply for the job, you have 40% chances of making it’ vs ‘… you have 60% chances of failing’). Behavioural economics has shown the momentous consequences of framing in social choice and decision theory, where presenting the same situation positively (‘glass half full’) or negatively (‘glass half empty’) can lead to dramatically different beliefs and choices. In this talk, I present a semantics for a belief revision operator which is hyperintensional, that is, capable of modelling distinctions more fine-grained than classical logical equivalence, and in particular, framing effects and inconsistent beliefs. Unlike most approaches to belief revision for non-ideal agents, my semantics does not resort to non-classical logics. The framework combines, instead, a standard semantics for propositional modal logic with a simple mereology of contents.
*Bio:
Franz Berto is the chair of logic and metaphysics at the university of St Andrews and a research chair at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation at the university of Amsterdam. He works more or less on anything nonclassical: non-standard ontology, non-classical modal and epistemic logic, and the philosophy of parallel computation. He has written a number papers on these topics, and books with Oxford University Press, Blackwell, King’s College, Synthese Library, Bloomsbury. He has held research positions at the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Notre Dame, at the Sorbonne and CNRS in Paris, at the University of Aberdeen, and at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study.
*When:
Thursday 7th of June 2018, 12:00-13:00
*Location:
Manno, Galleria 1, 2nd floor, room G1-201
*Registration:
Pizza (or alternative food) and drinks will be offered at the end of the talk. If you plan to attend, please register in a timely fashion at the following link so that we will have no shortage of food:
https://doodle.com/poll/24yvbd6rgs68zarx
6 years, 6 months