Recent Presentations

• Learning, Reasoning, and Intelligence in the Open World: From Principles to Practice, CITRIS Distinguished Lecture, UC-Berkeley, November 2009.
  
  
• Computing Futures: Directions and Reflections, NSF CISE, Arlington, VA, October 2009.
  
  
• Sensing, Learning, and Intelligence: Frontiers and Futures, Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, UCLA, October 2009.
  
  
• Computing Futures for Healthcare, Future of Health Technology Summit, MIT, Cambridge MA, September 2009.
  
  
• Learning and Harnessing Graphical Models in Online Applications, Joint Statistics Meeting, Washington DC, August 2009.
  
  
• Computing Futures: Directions and Reflections (video), Connected Health Conference, June 2009.
  
  
• Through the Lens of a Large Instant-Messaging Network: Planetary-Scale Views on Behavior, Studying Society in a Digital World, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University, April 2009.
  
  
• Where, When, Why, and How: Directions in Machine Learning and Reasoning about Location, Where 2.0 Conference, San Jose, California, May 2009 (photo).
  
  
• Intelligence, Interaction, and the Open World, Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Computer Science, University of Massachusetts at Amerherst, April 2009.
  
  
• Models of Human Behavior: Principles and Practice, Keynote presentation, AAAI Spring Symposium on Human Behavior Modeling, Stanford University, March 2009.
  
  
• Prediction, Expectation …and Surprise, Committee on Forecasting Future Disruptive Technologies, National Research Council (NRC), The National Academies, Irvine, CA, January 2009.
  
  
• Advances in Computing and ALS: Reflections on Directions for Enhancing the Quality of Life, 19th International Symposium on ALS/MND, Birmingham, England, November 2008.
  
  
• Models of Surprise: Opportunities & Challenges, Applications of Complexity Science for Public Policy, Global Science Forum, NSF and Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), Erice, Italy, October 2008.
  
  
• Reflections on Directions in Artificial Intelligence (video), Faculty Summit, Microsoft Research, July 2008.
  
  
• Artificial Intelligence in the Open World, AAAI Presidential Address, Chicago, IL, July 2008.
  
  
• People, Computation, and Intelligence, Informatics Distinguished Lectures, School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh, November 2007.
  
  
• People, Computing, and Intelligence, UC-Berkeley Joint Colloquium Distinguished Lecture Series, February 2007.
  
  
• Machines that Learn and Reason: Advances, Opportunities, and Challenges, Arthur Whiteley Lecture, San Juan Nature Institute, Friday Harbor Laboratories, February 2007.
  
  
• Bayesian structure search for spatiotemporal network analysis, Decoding the Neural Code, NIPS Workshop, December 2006, Whistler, British Columbia.
  
  
• Streaming Intelligence: Machine Learning and Reasoning in Daily Life, Vanguard Meeting, December 2006, Seattle, Washington.
  
  
• Artificial Intelligence, Personalization, and Privacy (presentation, transcript), FTC Hearing: Protecting Consumers in the Next Tech-ade, November 2006.
  
  
• Models of Surprise, NRAC Study, Science and Technology, 2015-2020, November 2004.
  
  
• Cognitive Models in Computing: Results and Directions, Distinguished Lecture Series, Department of Computer Science, Johns Hopkins University, November 2004.
  
  
• Models of Attention and Memory in Computing: Principles and Prospects, Joint seminar, Departments of Computer Science and Psychology, Northwestern University, October 2004.
  
  
• A Curse of Riches or a Blessing? Information Access and Awareness under Scarce Cognitive Resources, Adaptive Hypermedia 2004, Eindhoven, Netherlands, August 2004 (image, courtesy of AH 2004).
  
  
• Learning, Reasoning, and Human-Computer Interaction, Science and Technology Roundtable, Technology Alliance, June 2004.
  
  
• Computation, Action, and Interaction under Bounded Resources, Distinguished Lecture Series, Computer Science Department, University of Southern California, March 2004.
  
  
• Foundations of Attentional Systems and Interfaces: From Principles to Applications, Attention! Symposium, MIT Things That Think Consortium, March 2004.
  
  
• Automated Reasoning as a Platform for Personalized Education: Prospects and Challenges, Forum for School Science: Leading Edge Issues in Science and Mathematics Education, AAAS Annual Meeting, February 2004.
  
  
• Toward Adaptive, Personalized Computing: Directions and Frontiers, Machine Learning Meets the User Interface, NIPS 2003 Workshop, December 2003.
  
  
• Reflection and Action under Bounded Resources, Computation and Neural Systems Colloquium, Caltech, December 2003.
  
  
• Value-Directed Computing and Interaction, Computer Science Colloquium, Harvard University, November 2003.
  
  
• "Provocateur," Reasoning and Representation Section, DARPA IPTO 40th Anniversary Conference, Arlington, VA, November 2003.
  
  
• Decisions under Bounded Resources: Reflections on Ideal Action under Representational and Computational Incompleteness,
  SADR Conference on Decision Making in Complex Environments, Cornell University, April 2003.
  
  
• Models of Attention and Intention in Computing,
  Distinguished Lecture Series in Intelligent Systems, Georgia Institute of Technology, April 2003.
  
  
• Augmented Cognition: From Principles to Applications,
  Keynote, DARPA IPTO Augmented Cognition meeting, San Diego, CA, March 2003.
  
  
• Uncertainty, Utility, and Interaction,
  Distinguished Lecture Series, Institute for Computing, Information and Cognitive Systems, University of British Columbia, March 2003.
  
  
• Uncertainty, Intelligence, and Interaction,
  CMU AI Seminar, Carnegie Mellon University, October 2002.
  
  
• Intelligence and Interaction,
  Triangle CS Distinguished Lecturer Series , Duke University, April 2002.
  
  
• Uncertainty, Intelligence, and Interaction,
  Broad Area Colloquium for Artificial Intelligence, Geometry, Graphics, Robotics and Vision , Stanford University, March 2002.
  
  
• Uncertainty, Interaction, and Intelligence,
  ACM Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI) 2002, San Francisco, January 2002.
  
  
• Attention, Intention, and Initiative: Toward Insightful Interactive Agents,
  Autonomous Agents 2001, Montreal, May 2001.
  
  
• Presentation of Notification Platform, CHI Keynote talk by Bill Gates, Seattle, April 2001. (CHI 2001 photo.)
  
  
• Attentional Systems and Interfaces,
  The Computing Continuum Conference, , San Jose, March 2001.
  
  
• Uncertainty, Attention, and Computing,
  Departments of Computer Science and Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, May 2001.
  
  
• Toward Attentional Systems and Interfaces,
  OGI, Portland, OR, January 2001.
  
  
• Uncertainty, Utility, and Understanding,
  ITS 2000 Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems, Montreal, June 2000.
  
  
• Toward Attentional Systems and Interfaces,
  DARPA ISAT Summer Meeting, July, 2000, Woods Hole, MA.
  
  
• Toward Attentional Systems and Interfaces,
  AI'2000: Thirteenth Canadian Conference on Artificial Intelligence, May, 2000, Montréal, Canada.
  
  
• Leveraging Probability and Utility in Computation,
  Keynote presentation, AAAI 2000 Workshop on Leveraging Probability and Uncertainty in Computation, Austin TX, July 2000.
  
  
• Representing and Leveraging Uncertainty in Mathematical Models,
  Mathematics and Modeling Forum on "How Much Can We Rely on Mathematical Modeling?," National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, May 1999.
  
  
• Frontiers and Horizons: Directions in Search and Action under Uncertainty,
  AAAI Symposium on Search Techniques for Problem Solving Under Uncertainty and Incomplete Information, Stanford University, March 1999.
  
  
• Probability, Preferences, and Human--Computer Interaction,
  Computer Science Department Colloquium, Cornell University, February 1999.
  
  
• Uncertainty at Microsoft,
  Decision Analysis Colloquium, EES/OR Department, Stanford University, January 1999.
  
  
• Agents, Actions, and Uncertainty,
  Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agents, London UK, April 1999.
  
  
• Making Sense of Sensation: Principles and Architectures for Harnessing Perceptual Information in Computing, Perceptual User Interfaces (PUI '97), Banff, Canada, October 1997.
  
  
• Probability, Utility, and Human-Computer Interaction,
  Decision Behavior Consortium , University of Michigan, December 1998.
  
  
• Advances in Uncertain Reasoning,
  Invited Presentation, Fourteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Providence, RI, July 1997.
  
  
• A Grand Challenge: Automated Reasoning and Decision Support for Healthcare,
  Grand Challenges in Medical Informatics: In Celebration of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the First Stored Computer Program, Manchester, UK, June 1998.
  
  
• Advances in Information Technology for Critical Care Medicine: Challenges and Opportunities on the Horizon,
  28th Educational and Scientific Symposium, Society of Critical Care Medicine, San Francisco, CA, January 1999.
  
  
• Agents With Beliefs: Reflections on Bayesian Methods for User Modeling,
  Sixth International Conference on User Modeling, Sardinia, Italy, June 1997.
  
  
• Toward Intelligent Systems and Interaction: Recent Advances and Longterm Dreams, Tenth IEEE Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence, Taiwan, November 1998.
  
  
• Actions, Words, and Goals: Inference at the Human-Computer Interface, Computer Science Colloquium, Harvard University, February 1997.
  
  
• Handsfree Decision Support, First Workshop on Wearable Computing, August 1996.