| January 11 |
Texas Hold'em PokerBot Tournament I Winner: Paul Utgoff, Runner-up: Jeff Kinsey. |
| January 18 | Phillip Kirlin Maarten Grachten, Josep-Lluis Arcos, and Ramon Lopez de Mantaras. "Melodic Similarity: Looking For A Good Abstraction Level." In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, 2004. |
| January 25 | Texas Hold'em PokerBot Tournament II Winner: Paul Utgoff (70 points), Runner-up: Phil Kirlin (69 points). |
| February 1 | Stephen Murtagh D. Billings, et. al. "Approximating Game-Theoretic Optimal Strategies for Full-scale Poker." In Proceedings of IJCAI-03, 2003. |
| February 8 | Paul Utgoff D. Billings, et. al. Opponent modeling in poker. In Proceedings of the 15th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 493-498, Madison, WI, 1998. AAAI Press. |
| February 15 | Gary Holness Valgrind: A Suite of Tools for Debugging and Profiling |
| February 17 (Friday) | Texas Hold'em PokerBot Tournament III Winner: Phil Kirlin (28 points), Runner-up: Paul Utgoff (24 points). |
| February 22 | Phillip Kirlin Weka: Data Mining Software in Java |
| March 1 | Stephen Murtagh Hu, J., and Wellman, M. P. 1998. Multiagent reinforcement learning: Theoretical framework and an algorithm. In Shavlik, J., ed., Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Machine Learning. Morgan Kaufmann. |
| March 8 | Paul Utgoff Explanation of MARPLE: Motives and Recurring Patterns Lexicon. |
| March 13 (Monday) | Texas Hold'em PokerBot Tournament IV |
| March 15 | Gary Holness C. Perttunnen, D. Jones, and B. Stuckman. Lipschitzian optimization without the lipschitz constant. J. Optimization Theory and Application, 79(1):157 -- 181, 1993. |
| March 22 | Phillip Kirlin A. Ng, M. Jordan, and Y. Weiss. On spectral clustering: analysis and an algorithm. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14, 2002, pp. 849-856. |
| March 29 | Stephen Murtagh Y. Shoham, R. Powers, and T. Grenager. Multi-agent reinforcement learning: a critical survey. Technical report, Stanford University, 2003 |
| April 5 | Paul Utgoff Research update: Improving MARPLE. |
| April 12 | Gary Holness The job search process, the interview process, some results concerning a measure of task difficulty, and DiSCO performance on a synthetic data-set with controllable difficulty |
| April 19 | Phillip Kirlin Vickers, P. and Alty, J. L. 2003. Siren songs and swan songs: debugging with music. Commun. ACM 46, 7 (Jul. 2003), 86-93. |
| May 3 | Stephen Murtagh K. Q. Weinberger, J. Blitzer, and L. K. Saul. "Distance Metric Learning for Large Margin Nearest Neighbor Classification." NIPS 2005. |
| May 10 | Paul Utgoff |
| May 17 | End-of-semester lunch at Sugarloaf Frostie, weather permitting. |
| Last update: September 19, 2005 |