What is the Hai Tea?
The Hai Tea (Hot Artificial Intelligence Tea, pronounciation: high-tea) is a series of free lectures, held at the faculty of science of the University of Amsterdam, on current academic research within the field of artificial intelligence. The lectures are given by active researchers from universities and/or research centers. They lecture on either their own area of research, or on another exiting development within the field that they find especially interesting. The lectures last anywhere between 45 and 60 minutes, without any breaks. After the lecture there is a discussion-session, during which tea and coffee is served free of charge.
Goals of the Hai Tea
The Hai Tea lectures serve to promote awareness of AI research amongst students and to stimulate them to become more actively involved with academic life. Hopefully the lectures will bring students and researchers together in a manner that stimulates open discussion and a thoughtfull exchange of ideas. For students the Hai Tea serves as an opportunity to expose themselves to cutting-edge research and the people involved. For lecturers the Hai Tea is an opportunity to meet with students in a more informal manner and to create an interest in academic research.
Who should attend?
Anyone with an interest in Artifcial Intelligence! Although the lectures are primarily aimed at Master level AI students, students from any level or background are more than welcome to attend. Please do not let the thought that the lectures will be at a master-level put you off! For bachelor students the lectures are a great opportunity to get an idea of what is going on within the field of AI.
Lecture Schedule
The next lecture will be held on Thursday the 23th of March, 15:00H.
| Date | Lecturer: | Topic: | Location: |
| 27/02/2007 15:00H |
P. Adriaans | The Power and Perils of MDL In this lecture I will present some recent work I did with Paul Vitanyi and Ceriel Jacobs on the application of the MDL (Minimum Description Length) principle to grammar induction. We have studied MDL in terms of two-part code optimization and randomness deficiency. These notions will be explained in the lecture. » more |
Nieuwe Achtergracht 127 Building C room C.210 Click here for a description on how to get to building C |
Past Lectures
| Date | Lecturer: | Topic: |
| 23/03/2006 |
N. Sebe | Emotion Recognition: Is There Any Use of It? Recent technological advances have enabled human users to interact with computers in ways previously unimaginable. Beyond the confines of keyboard and mouse, new modalities for human-computer interaction such as facial expressions, voice, and gestures are emerging... » more |
| 18/01/2006 | A.E. Eiben | Emergent
Collective Intelligence A new wave in AI is seeking collective intelligence within groups of entities, for instance, a swarm of robots, a cluster of computers, artificial life applications, etc... » more |
| 15/11/2005 | R.Scha | Visual Gestalt Perception as Structural Disambiguation Probabilistic data-oriented methods have become increasingly successful in mastering the structural ambiguity of natural language utterances. We are now investigating whether similar methods can be used to model visual Gestalt perception. In this talk I will sketch the most important issues involved in that research agenda... » more |
People
The Hai Tea is organized by a group of 4 Master students, who are enthousiastic about Artificial Intelligence. They feel that there is an undesireable gap between modern student life and academic research. Through organizing the Hai Tea lectures, they hope to contribute to the bridging of this gap. The students involved are:
Nikolaj Groeneweg
Bastiaan de Groot
Arvid Halma
Bernardo Quiroga
Miscellaneous
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