Moved into Boston

[Faré]

Jon Godbout is offering us a space at Google for the meeting. I believe
this means advance registration required. Unless someone strongly objects,
I believe this is the right choice within the time frame. Otherwise I can
get a room at MIT.

—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics•
http://fare.tunes.org


On Thu, Aug 1, 2019, 20:34 Guicho 271828 <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see, maybe it is safer to avoid that title in the US.
> Please make the title just as "Classical PDDL/STRIPS Planning in Deep
> Latent Space".
>
>
> 2019年8月1日(木) 16:19 Jeff Read <bitwize at gmail.com>:
>
>>
>> Color me intrigued -- it certainly does seem interesting, and potentially
>> unifies symbol and logic based GOFAI with the "throw more statistics at the
>> problem" school that currently encompasses "AI" as a buzzword. If we're
>> still on for August 15 I would love to attend as I think I would learn much.
>>
>> Bikeshed issue: You may wish to consider revising the title of your talk.
>> "Make X great again" is considered "normalizing hate speech" and very
>> offensive, therefore unacceptable by 2019 professional standards. Major
>> open-source conferences will reject a talk proposal with such a title, and
>> some may preëmptively ban you from the con entirely for proposing it.
>> Source: https://mobile.twitter.com/aurynn/status/1128053124323655680
>>
>> It may not be an issue among us (Faré may even like it, and relish a
>> twist of the old knife), but among less laid-back groups and conferences it
>> can be severely career-limiting.
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019, 7:33 AM Masataro Asai <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thank you for the invitation :)
>>>
>>> August 15th should work, but I need to confirm the schedule in the
>>> company, which I cannot check now until I complete the onboarding
>>> process of US IBM (although I have been in IBM Japan for quite a
>>> while...)
>>>
>>> Will they be posted on any sort of MIT bulletin board? Is it more of an
>>> academic event? That might need a permission from the manager. For an
>>> informal meeting it should be fine.
>>>
>>> Blurb meaning the short description / abstract of the talk? Let me give
>>> a try...
>>>
>>> For myself:
>>>
>>> Masataro Asai, aka guicho271828, is a Lisp hacker with 11 years of
>>> experience in Common Lisp, who received a Ph.D in Artificial
>>> Intelligence from the University of Tokyo. He is an expert in heuristic
>>> graph search and automated planning and scheduling, also known as AI
>>> Planning, with publications records on top AI conferences e.g. AAAI,
>>> IJCAI, ICAPS. Author of a fast pattern match library Trivia, a numerical
>>> computation library NUMCL (which got 400 stars) and more.
>>>
>>> For the talk:
>>>
>>> Title: Make Symbols Great Again!: Classical PDDL/STRIPS Planning in Deep
>>> Latent Space
>>>
>>> Domain-independent classical planners require the symbolic models of the
>>> problem domain and instance as input, resulting in a knowledge
>>> acquisition bottleneck. Meanwhile, although deep learning has achieved
>>> significant success in many fields, the knowledge is encoded in a
>>> subsymbolic representation which is incompatible with symbolic systems
>>> such as planners. We introduce LatPlan, an unsupervised architecture
>>> combining deep learning and classical planning. Given only an unlabeled
>>> set of image pairs showing a subset of transitions allowed in the
>>> environment (training inputs), and a pair of images representing the
>>> initial and the goal states (planning inputs), LatPlan finds a plan to
>>> the goal state in a symbolic latent space and returns a visualized plan
>>> execution.
>>>
>>> In the talk, we also survey the recent progress in the related fields
>>> and also informally talk about my future ambitions.
>>>
>>> Regards
>>> Masataro
>>>
>>>
>>> Faré wrote:
>>> > Congratulations!
>>> >
>>> > Let's summon a Boston Lisp Meeting to greet you.
>>> > How about Thursday August 15th at 1800?
>>> >
>>> > I'll try to reserve a room at MIT. Either way, we can meet for dinner
>>> > afterwards.
>>> >
>>> > Can you give a speech on some topic of your choice? Otherwise is there
>>> > any other candidate?
>>> > Can you give me a one-paragraph blurb about yourself, another one
>>> > about your topic?
>>> >
>>> > —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics•
>>> http://fare.tunes.org
>>> > Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
>>> >                  — Thomas Alva Edison
>>> >
>>> > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 7:27 AM Masataro Asai <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> Dear all,
>>> >>
>>> >> I just moved to Boston yesterday. 5yr assignment.
>>> >> Thanks
>>> >>
>>> >> --
>>> >> Masataro Asai Ph.D
>>> >>
>>> >> Research Staff Member
>>> >> IBM Research
>>> >>
>>> >> Tel: +81-44-856-9009
>>> >> Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357
>>> >> Mail: guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
>>> >> Website: http://guicho271828.github.io/
>>> >>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Masataro Asai Ph.D
>>>
>>> Research Staff Member
>>> IBM Research
>>>
>>> Tel: +81-44-856-9009
>>> Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357
>>> Mail: guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
>>> Website: http://guicho271828.github.io/
>>>
>>>
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