1998 UW/MSR Summer Institute on Intelligent Systems

Program Overview

Monday, August 17

6-8:30pm
Welcoming reception for participants and families
    Kane Hall, University of Washington

Participants pick up Institute materials.

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Tuesday, August 18

 8:00-8:30am
Continental Breakfast
Kane Hall

8:30-8:45
Welcome, meeting overview
Organizers

8:45-12:00
Intelligent Systems: Key Perspectives, Languages, and Problems I
      Session chair: Malcolm Burrows
    • A Neurobiological Perspective on Intelligent Systems

      • William Kristan
    • A Decision-Theoretic Perspective on Intelligent Systems

      • Eric Horvitz

Break 10:30-11:00

    • An Information-Theoretic Perspective

      • Fred Rieke
Lunch 12:00-1:30

1:30-4:30
Intelligent Systems: Key Perspectives, Languages, and Problems II
      Session chair: Paul Werbos
    • A Control and Dynamical Systems Perspective

      • John Doyle
    • A Computational Neuroscience Perspective

      • Sue Becker
Break 3:10-3:40
    • A Cognitive Science Perspective

      • James Anderson
4:30-4:45
Themes and working groups overview

4:45-6:00
Initial group meetings

7:00
Buses pick up families at University Inn for transportation to the Boeing Museum of Flight.

7:30pm
Reception and Dinner at the Boeing Museum of Flight

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Wednesday, August 19

 		8:00-8:30
Continental Breakfast
Kane Hall

8:30-9:30
Perspective
      Computers and commonsense
             Marvin Minsky

9:30-11:00
Control, Stability, and Robustness
            Session chair: John Doyle
    • Stability, control, and intelligence

      • Tom Daniel
    • The control of stability in fruit flies

      • Mike Dickenson
    • Biomechanical intelligence: Synthesizing a robot arm

      • Blake Hannaford
Break 11:00-11:30

11:30-1:00
Sensory Integration and Action under Uncertainty
     Session chair: Martha Gillette
    • Mechanisms for selective attention in insect motor control systems

      • Malcolm Burrows
    • Computation in the circuitry for tail flip escape reactions of crayfish

      • Frank Krasne
    • Neurons, peptides and geomagnetic orientation: An intelligent system in a murky, marine environment

      • Dennis Willows
Lunch 1:00-2:00

2:00-3:00
Selection, Evolution, and Environments
         Session chair: Eberhard Fetz
    • Evolution on the time scale of thought and action

      • William Calvin
    • Evolutionary strategies, ecological systems, and intelligence

      • Peter Kareiva
Break 3:00-3:30

3:30-4:00
Overview presentations by group leaders

4:00-5:30
Group meetings

8:00
   Buses pick up families at University Inn for transportation to the Seattle Aquarium.

8:30
Reception and Dinner Banquet at the Seattle Aquarium

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Thursday, August 20

8:00-8:30
Continental Breakfast
       Kane Hall

8:30-10:30
Information Flow and Analysis in Intelligent Systems
       Session chair: Fred Rieke
    • Scope of the simplest communication systems

      • Peter Anderson
    • The neuronal dendrite: a complex biological system

      • Nelson Spruston
    • The importance of learning what to ignore

      • Les Atlas
    • It's informative where people look: Statistics of scenes at the center of gaze

      • Pamela Reinagel
Break 10:30-11:00

11:00-12:00
Plasticity, Learning, and Adaptation I
       Session chair: Chris Bishop
    • Neuromodulators: How to get many behaviors from a small neural network
      •
      Kathy Graubard
    • Oscillatory dynamics and olfactory information processing

      • Alan Gelperin
Lunch12:00-1:30

1:30-2:30
Computational Models for Learning
       Session chair: Eric Horvitz

    • Computational learning: A Bayesian Perspective

      • Chris Bishop
    • Learning from atypical examples: Support vector machines and neurobiology

      • John Platt
2:30-3:30
Complexity, Organization, and Analysis
      Session chair: Dennis Willows

    • Intelligence and embryogenesis

      • Garry Odell
    • Independent component analysis of population codes in Tritonia: Spike sorting and cell classification

      • Glen Brown
Break 3:30-4:00

4:00-5:30
Group Meetings

7:00
   Buses pick up families at University Inn for transportation to Seattle Center.

7:30
Reception and Dinner Banquet at the Space Needle, Seattle Center

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Friday, August 21

 		Morning: Travel to Friday Harbor, San Juan Island
Participants voyage on seaplanes and ferries, check into hotels on San Juan Island.
Shuttles from dock to suites for check-in and from suites to lunch at noon.

12:00
Vans leave Suites for Friday Harbor Laboratories.

Lunch 12:15-2:00
   Participants and families

2:00-4:00
Friday Harbor Laboratories Tours and Presentations
  • Participants
In the Lab: Behavioral and Neurophysiological Studies
Meet at head of dock for laboratory tour and presentations highlighting neurophysiological research on marine organisms. Demonstrations of animal behavior studies, neurons, and circuits in mollusks and crustacea.

  • Families
Friday Harbor Laboratories Tour
Meet at main lab entrance for tour highlighting diversity of living organisms, research, and educational activities. For all ages, interests, opportunities for young people for hands on involvement and questions.
4:00-5:00
Reception on Friday Harbor Laboratories Dining Hall Deck

4:30, 5:00
   Vans from Dining Hall to Suites to prepare for dinner.

6:45
   Vans from Suites to Dining Hall for banquet.

7:00-10:00
Dinner banquet and dancing at the Friday Harbor Laboratories Dining Hall
   Jazz entertainment by the San Juan Jazz Quartet

8:30, 10:00
Vans available to transport guests to Suites.

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Saturday, August 22

 7:30-8:30
Continental Breakfast
   Suites, restaurant adjacent to lobby
  • Families
10:15-1:00
Morning Field Trip
Vans pick up families at Suites for guided field trip to marine intertidal to explore some of the marine organisms of the region. Wear suitable clothes and footgear for tramping on seashore. Picnic lunches provided. Return to Suites at 1pm. Families not on morning trip served lunch at Friday Harbor Dining Hall at 12:15.

2:00-4:00
Afternoon Field Trip
Vans pick up families at Suites for guided tour of San Juan Island. Destinations include Roche Harbor, British Camp, Whale Watch site, American Camp, and Cattle Point. Return to Suites at 4:00.

4:45
Vans pick up families at Suites for transport to Friday Harbor Laboratories.

  • Participants
Plenary Sessions at Friday Harbor Laboratories Commons

8:15
Vans pick up participants at Suites for transportation to Friday Harbor Laboratories.

8:30-9:30
Plasticity, Learning, and Adaptation II
      Session chair: Alan Gelperin

Dissecting the memory of Aplysia
   William Frost

Building animals
   Rhanor Gillette

Break 9:30-10:00

10:00-11:45
Mechanism, Substrate, and Architecture
       Session chair: Eric Horvitz

    • Information processing using populations of neurons

      • John Lewis
    • Distributed computation, networking, and intelligence

      • Butler Lampson
    • Engineering artificial neuronal systems

      • Chris Diorio
11:45-1:15
Working lunch and lunch for families not on morning field trip.
Friday Harbor Laboratories Dining Hall

1:15-2:15
Panel Discussion:
Computational and Biological Approaches to Intelligent Systems:
Challenges and Opportunities

2:15-4:45
Group Presentations and Discussion

4:45
   Vans pick up families at Suites to rejoin participants at Friday Harbor Laboratories.

5:00-7:00
Hosted yacht excursions in San Juan Islands.
   Yachts depart from Friday Harbor Laboratories Dock at 5pm sharp.
       Refreshments and snacks provided.

7:00-7:45
Dinner
   Friday Harbor Laboratories Dining Hall

8:00, 8:30
   Vans to Suites

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Sunday, August 23

 Free time on San Juan Island.
Guests arrange with Suites for transportation from Suites to Port of Friday Harbor for Seaplane or ferry connections.

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Technical program: Eric Horvitz horvitz@microsoft.com
FHL arrangements: Joyce Smith joyces@fhl.washington.edu
UW arrangements: Jennifer Seller seller@cs.washington.edu