1. June 20, 2001MURI Review Meeting Decision-Making under Uncertainty University of California, Berkeley Venkat Anantharam Laurent El Ghaoui Michael I. Jordan Stuart Russell S. Shankar Sastry University of California, Davis Roger Wets Stanford University Daphne Koller Ben van Roy Claire Tomlin http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/muri

2. June 20, 2001MURI Review Meeting Faculty Investigators Venkat Anantharam – information theory, stochastic control Laurent El Ghaoui – convex optimization, control theory Michael Jordan – graphical models, statistics Daphne Koller – decision theory, game theory, AI Stuart Russell –reinforcement learning, decision theory, AI Shankar Sastry – hybrid control, systems theory Claire Tomlin – hybrid control, systems theory Ben van Roy – reinforcement learning, dynamic programming Roger Wets – variational analysis, stochastic optimization

3. June 20, 2001MURI Review Meeting Postdoctoral Researchers Sekhar Tatikonda – information theory, distributed control Yair Weiss – probabilistic inference

4. June 20, 2001MURI Review Meeting Research Concentration Areas (RCA 1) Exploration of basic methods, such as probability and decision theory, Bayesian and related methods, and utility theory (RCA 2) Bound the effects of missing or incorrect information (RCA 3) Incorporate Quality of Service issues, such as trading off time for certainty (RCA 4) Dealing with varying bandwidth and connectivity in the networked battlefield (RCA 5) Fusing uncertain information of different kinds (RCA 6) Ways of structuring problems for optimal understanding (RCA 7) Present possible and alternative courses of action to the user, quantitatively ranked according to the system’s beliefs

5. June 20, 2001MURI Review Meeting Investigator to RCA Map Venkat Anantharam – RCA1, RCA4 Laurent El Ghaoui – RCA1, RCA2, RCA3 Michael Jordan – RCA1, RCA2, RCA5, RCA7 Daphne Koller – RCA1, RCA2, RCA3, RCA5, RCA6, RCA7 Stuart Russell – RCA1, RCA3, RCA5, RCA6, RCA7 Shankar Sastry – RCA1, RCA2, RCA6 Claire Tomlin – RCA1, RCA2, RCA6 Ben van Roy – RCA1, RCA2, RCA3 Roger Wets – RCA1, RCA2 Sekhar Tatikonda – RCA1, RCA4 Yair Weiss – RCA1, RCA2, RCA3

6. June 20, 2001MURI Review Meeting Research Spectrum Physical environment Information environment Algorithms and Interfaces Human decision maker

7. June 20, 2001MURI Review Meeting Industrial Contacts Intel ( Gary Bradski ) Google ( Peter Norvig ) Microsoft Research ( David Heckerman, Eric Horvitz, Jack Breese ) AT&T Labs Research ( Michael Kearns, Yann LeCun, Satinder Singh ) Affymetrix ( David Kulp, Cyrus Harmon ) Alphatech ( John Fox ) IBM Watson Research Center ( Shivakumar Vaithyanathan ) Honeywell Labs ( Datta Godbole, Mary Jo Hoffman, Jorge Tierno )

8. June 20, 2001MURI Review Meeting DoD/Government Contacts SPAWAR, San Diego, CA Third Fleet Command Ship, USS Coronado Army Research Laboratories SPAWAR, Norfolk, VA Fort Leavenworth (TRADOC) AFRL (Siva Banda) AFOSR (Marc Jacobs) NASA (George Meyer) NASA (Asaf Degani) Darpa ITO (John Bay) Darpa DSO (Eric Eisenstadt)

9. June 20, 2001MURI Review Meeting Educational Activities Courses specifically designed for relevance to MURI Advanced Topics in Learning and Decision-Making--- Berkeley Statistical Learning Theory---Berkeley Introduction to Convex Optimization---Berkeley Optimization Seminar---Berkeley Neuro-Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning- --Stanford Stochastic Decision Models---Stanford Analysis and Control of Nonlinear Systems---Stanford Stochastic Programming---Davis

10. June 20, 2001MURI Review Meeting Meetings Biweekly research meetings at Berkeley Full-day workshop---September 20, 2000 (Berkeley) Full-day workshop---March 28, 2001 (Stanford)

11. June 20, 2001MURI Review Meeting Agenda 9:00 – 9:15 Michael Jordan (overview) 9:15 – 9:55 Shankar Sastry – Pursuit-evasion games, map building, embedded software 9:55 – 10:35 Daphne Koller – Markov decision problems with factored value functions, multi-agent Markov decision problems 10:35 – 11:15 Stuart Russell – Programmable reinforcement learning systems 11:15 – 1:00 Lunch 1:00 – 1:40 Claire Tomlin – Distributed control of multiple vehicle systems 1:40 – 2:20 Michael Jordan – Feature selection, edge selection and variable selection 2:20 – 3:10 Yair Weiss – Approximate inference via approximations of free energy 3:10 – 3:30 Break 3:30 – 4:10 Laurent El Ghaoui – Estimation and optimization: Gaps and bridges 4:10 – 4:30 Sekhar Tatikonda – Network information theory 4:30 – 5:00 Open discussion