From jgodbou at gmail.com  Mon Jul 22 19:27:15 2019
From: jgodbou at gmail.com (Jonathan Godbout)
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:27:15 -0400
Subject: Lisp Book, General meetup?
Message-ID: <CAN0SZeiORmaF59YZf2reGPmO4Vaqp6aq660zYbm=BAVHz3qyOg@mail.gmail.com>

Lispers in Boston,

This group is relatively silent, was wondering if people may be interested
in going through a book, say Let Over Lambda or some other book?
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From js0000 at gmail.com  Mon Jul 22 19:32:10 2019
From: js0000 at gmail.com (johnny)
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 15:32:10 -0400
Subject: Lisp Book, General meetup?
In-Reply-To: <CAN0SZeiORmaF59YZf2reGPmO4Vaqp6aq660zYbm=BAVHz3qyOg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAN0SZeiORmaF59YZf2reGPmO4Vaqp6aq660zYbm=BAVHz3qyOg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <dc773d03-b3c4-d03e-04a2-a0dbc77c52ab@gmail.com>

hola

On 7/22/19 3:27 PM, Jonathan Godbout wrote:
> This group is relatively silent, was wondering if people may be 
> interested in going through a book, say Let Over Lambda or some other book?

i'd be interested ... (already have a copy)


From rrotstein at verizon.net  Mon Jul 22 21:04:45 2019
From: rrotstein at verizon.net (Robert Rotstein)
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:04:45 -0400
Subject: Lisp Book, General meetup?
In-Reply-To: <CAN0SZeiORmaF59YZf2reGPmO4Vaqp6aq660zYbm=BAVHz3qyOg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAN0SZeiORmaF59YZf2reGPmO4Vaqp6aq660zYbm=BAVHz3qyOg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <5bea04fe-2c8b-c0a9-d41b-4a80f8e363af@verizon.net>

I would be interested (though nowadays I have a tendency to try to do 
too many things).?? I already have the book.

On 7/22/2019 3:27 PM, Jonathan Godbout wrote:
> Lispers in Boston,
>
> This group is relatively silent, was wondering if people may be 
> interested in going through a book, say Let Over Lambda or some other 
> book?
>
>


From franklin.einspruch at gmail.com  Mon Jul 22 21:32:03 2019
From: franklin.einspruch at gmail.com (Franklin Einspruch)
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2019 17:32:03 -0400
Subject: Lisp Book, General meetup?
In-Reply-To: <5bea04fe-2c8b-c0a9-d41b-4a80f8e363af@verizon.net>
References: <CAN0SZeiORmaF59YZf2reGPmO4Vaqp6aq660zYbm=BAVHz3qyOg@mail.gmail.com>
 <5bea04fe-2c8b-c0a9-d41b-4a80f8e363af@verizon.net>
Message-ID: <CABc0hbmmUP1FMo5JuJxW=dRHG7Ogwb3TfeNRpu6f_Yq_XXKc7Q@mail.gmail.com>

Count me in for a LOL reading group.
- - -
Franklin Einspruch
http://franklin.art <http://www.newmodernpress.com>


On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:05 PM Robert Rotstein <rrotstein at verizon.net>
wrote:

> I would be interested (though nowadays I have a tendency to try to do
> too many things).?? I already have the book.
>
> On 7/22/2019 3:27 PM, Jonathan Godbout wrote:
> > Lispers in Boston,
> >
> > This group is relatively silent, was wondering if people may be
> > interested in going through a book, say Let Over Lambda or some other
> > book?
> >
> >
>
>
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From jgodbou at gmail.com  Thu Jul 25 03:45:55 2019
From: jgodbou at gmail.com (Jonathan Godbout)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 23:45:55 -0400
Subject: Lisp Book, General meetup?
In-Reply-To: <CABc0hbmmUP1FMo5JuJxW=dRHG7Ogwb3TfeNRpu6f_Yq_XXKc7Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAN0SZeiORmaF59YZf2reGPmO4Vaqp6aq660zYbm=BAVHz3qyOg@mail.gmail.com>
 <5bea04fe-2c8b-c0a9-d41b-4a80f8e363af@verizon.net>
 <CABc0hbmmUP1FMo5JuJxW=dRHG7Ogwb3TfeNRpu6f_Yq_XXKc7Q@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAN0SZehNi9CBZe5Jbmi2R-9J6STMwrZ1wHXj0j4FE7C39Cw-=A@mail.gmail.com>

There appears to be enough people!
Is everyone local, shall we find a place to meet?
And 2 people say they have a book, does anybody not have a book or should
we start asap?

On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:32 PM Franklin Einspruch <
franklin.einspruch at gmail.com> wrote:

> Count me in for a LOL reading group.
> - - -
> Franklin Einspruch
> http://franklin.art <http://www.newmodernpress.com>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:05 PM Robert Rotstein <rrotstein at verizon.net>
> wrote:
>
>> I would be interested (though nowadays I have a tendency to try to do
>> too many things).?? I already have the book.
>>
>> On 7/22/2019 3:27 PM, Jonathan Godbout wrote:
>> > Lispers in Boston,
>> >
>> > This group is relatively silent, was wondering if people may be
>> > interested in going through a book, say Let Over Lambda or some other
>> > book?
>> >
>> >
>>
>>
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From franklin.einspruch at gmail.com  Thu Jul 25 19:26:00 2019
From: franklin.einspruch at gmail.com (Franklin Einspruch)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 15:26:00 -0400
Subject: Lisp Book, General meetup?
In-Reply-To: <CAN0SZehNi9CBZe5Jbmi2R-9J6STMwrZ1wHXj0j4FE7C39Cw-=A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAN0SZeiORmaF59YZf2reGPmO4Vaqp6aq660zYbm=BAVHz3qyOg@mail.gmail.com>
 <5bea04fe-2c8b-c0a9-d41b-4a80f8e363af@verizon.net>
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Message-ID: <CABc0hbmeVpR4Yww+UvJ5hEUu6_vtG-sB5eQtZmXEF8MEz=yR7Q@mail.gmail.com>

I suggest that we pick a time in August, figure out a place, and
re-announce to the list for anyone who wants to catch up and join us. Feel
free to email me off-list.

f.
- - -
Franklin Einspruch
http://franklin.art <http://www.newmodernpress.com>


On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:46 PM Jonathan Godbout <jgodbou at gmail.com> wrote:

> There appears to be enough people!
> Is everyone local, shall we find a place to meet?
> And 2 people say they have a book, does anybody not have a book or should
> we start asap?
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:32 PM Franklin Einspruch <
> franklin.einspruch at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Count me in for a LOL reading group.
>> - - -
>> Franklin Einspruch
>> http://franklin.art <http://www.newmodernpress.com>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:05 PM Robert Rotstein <rrotstein at verizon.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I would be interested (though nowadays I have a tendency to try to do
>>> too many things).?? I already have the book.
>>>
>>> On 7/22/2019 3:27 PM, Jonathan Godbout wrote:
>>> > Lispers in Boston,
>>> >
>>> > This group is relatively silent, was wondering if people may be
>>> > interested in going through a book, say Let Over Lambda or some other
>>> > book?
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
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From rrotstein at verizon.net  Thu Jul 25 22:18:23 2019
From: rrotstein at verizon.net (Robert Rotstein)
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2019 18:18:23 -0400
Subject: Lisp Book, General meetup?
In-Reply-To: <CABc0hbmeVpR4Yww+UvJ5hEUu6_vtG-sB5eQtZmXEF8MEz=yR7Q@mail.gmail.com>
References: <CAN0SZeiORmaF59YZf2reGPmO4Vaqp6aq660zYbm=BAVHz3qyOg@mail.gmail.com>
 <5bea04fe-2c8b-c0a9-d41b-4a80f8e363af@verizon.net>
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Message-ID: <b91189c4-68dc-9718-a171-bfffe7375409@verizon.net>

I have a .pdf version of the book which I can make available to all.

On 7/25/2019 3:26 PM, Franklin Einspruch wrote:
> I suggest that we pick a time in August, figure out a place, and 
> re-announce to the list for anyone who wants to catch up and join us. 
> Feel free to email me off-list.
>
> f.
> - - -
> Franklin Einspruch
> http://franklin.art
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:46 PM Jonathan Godbout <jgodbou at gmail.com 
> <mailto:jgodbou at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     There appears to be enough people!
>     Is everyone local, shall we find a place to meet?
>     And 2 people say they have a book, does anybody not have a book or
>     should we start asap?
>
>     On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:32 PM Franklin Einspruch
>     <franklin.einspruch at gmail.com
>     <mailto:franklin.einspruch at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>         Count me in for a LOL reading group.
>         - - -
>         Franklin Einspruch
>         http://franklin.art
>
>
>         On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 5:05 PM Robert Rotstein
>         <rrotstein at verizon.net <mailto:rrotstein at verizon.net>> wrote:
>
>             I would be interested (though nowadays I have a tendency
>             to try to do
>             too many things).?? I already have the book.
>
>             On 7/22/2019 3:27 PM, Jonathan Godbout wrote:
>             > Lispers in Boston,
>             >
>             > This group is relatively silent, was wondering if people
>             may be
>             > interested in going through a book, say Let Over Lambda
>             or some other
>             > book?
>             >
>             >
>
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From guicho2.71828 at gmail.com  Sun Jul 28 11:26:38 2019
From: guicho2.71828 at gmail.com (Masataro Asai)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 07:26:38 -0400
Subject: Moved into Boston
Message-ID: <616520cd-256d-8bb1-f659-d565cbc51a18@gmail.com>

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/


From guicho2.71828 at gmail.com  Sun Jul 28 14:39:03 2019
From: guicho2.71828 at gmail.com (Guicho 271828)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 10:39:03 -0400
Subject: Moved into Boston
In-Reply-To: <CAN0SZehUVckjqdubNZt_ZT1MwUUDasS+z4pT4W_=opi2WHmd3A@mail.gmail.com>
References: <616520cd-256d-8bb1-f659-d565cbc51a18@gmail.com>
 <CAN0SZehUVckjqdubNZt_ZT1MwUUDasS+z4pT4W_=opi2WHmd3A@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAL2JeXV7cjkPPBQO-_vFrv9JW_a_F14_JecN447hvEGCNCmTtg@mail.gmail.com>

Correct. MIT-IBM Waton AI Lab.
I do use lisp!

2019年7月28日(日) 9:31 Jonathan Godbout <jgodbou at gmail.com>:

> Greetings and welcome to lisp @ Boston. Are you going to be working in the
> Cambridge office? And out of curiosity do you use lisp in your optimization
> research?
>
> On Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 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/
>>
>>
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From fahree at gmail.com  Sun Jul 28 13:43:15 2019
From: fahree at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?B?RmFyw6k=?=)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:43:15 -0400
Subject: Moved into Boston
In-Reply-To: <616520cd-256d-8bb1-f659-d565cbc51a18@gmail.com>
References: <616520cd-256d-8bb1-f659-d565cbc51a18@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAN7nBXcW1SUP0K4ng8o5zeJ6im4ZhQBfjJctK2LFjemandodyg@mail.gmail.com>

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/
>


From jgodbou at gmail.com  Sun Jul 28 13:28:55 2019
From: jgodbou at gmail.com (Jonathan Godbout)
Date: Sun, 28 Jul 2019 09:28:55 -0400
Subject: Moved into Boston
In-Reply-To: <616520cd-256d-8bb1-f659-d565cbc51a18@gmail.com>
References: <616520cd-256d-8bb1-f659-d565cbc51a18@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAN0SZehUVckjqdubNZt_ZT1MwUUDasS+z4pT4W_=opi2WHmd3A@mail.gmail.com>

Greetings and welcome to lisp @ Boston. Are you going to be working in the
Cambridge office? And out of curiosity do you use lisp in your optimization
research?

On Sun, Jul 28, 2019, 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/
>
>
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From guicho2.71828 at gmail.com  Mon Jul 29 11:33:11 2019
From: guicho2.71828 at gmail.com (Masataro Asai)
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 07:33:11 -0400
Subject: Moved into Boston
In-Reply-To: <CAN7nBXcW1SUP0K4ng8o5zeJ6im4ZhQBfjJctK2LFjemandodyg@mail.gmail.com>
References: <616520cd-256d-8bb1-f659-d565cbc51a18@gmail.com>
 <CAN7nBXcW1SUP0K4ng8o5zeJ6im4ZhQBfjJctK2LFjemandodyg@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <83cf5034-7dc4-2ae8-b755-4b2a4608a781@gmail.com>

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/


From guicho2.71828 at gmail.com  Tue Jul 30 21:44:42 2019
From: guicho2.71828 at gmail.com (Masataro Asai)
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:44:42 -0400
Subject: Moved into Boston
In-Reply-To: <CAN0SZeij3ehOWMYv4LkyS-65wQePqRQq9sbu+U2oc4+ABhZFFw@mail.gmail.com>
References: <616520cd-256d-8bb1-f659-d565cbc51a18@gmail.com>
 <CAN7nBXcW1SUP0K4ng8o5zeJ6im4ZhQBfjJctK2LFjemandodyg@mail.gmail.com>
 <83cf5034-7dc4-2ae8-b755-4b2a4608a781@gmail.com>
 <CAN0SZeij3ehOWMYv4LkyS-65wQePqRQq9sbu+U2oc4+ABhZFFw@mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <9fe4ac68-c7dd-305e-d5f0-25421ea701d3@gmail.com>

Please do not do it yet --- I should ask my boss if I can give a talk.
(the abstract is almost a copy from my paper abstract, to avoid issues)

Jonathan Godbout wrote:
> It should be updated: https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/
> 
> 
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 7:33 AM Masataro Asai <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com 
> <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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/


From jgodbou at gmail.com  Tue Jul 30 21:32:38 2019
From: jgodbou at gmail.com (Jonathan Godbout)
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 17:32:38 -0400
Subject: Moved into Boston
In-Reply-To: <83cf5034-7dc4-2ae8-b755-4b2a4608a781@gmail.com>
References: <616520cd-256d-8bb1-f659-d565cbc51a18@gmail.com>
 <CAN7nBXcW1SUP0K4ng8o5zeJ6im4ZhQBfjJctK2LFjemandodyg@mail.gmail.com>
 <83cf5034-7dc4-2ae8-b755-4b2a4608a781@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAN0SZeij3ehOWMYv4LkyS-65wQePqRQq9sbu+U2oc4+ABhZFFw@mail.gmail.com>

It should be updated: https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/


On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 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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From guicho2.71828 at gmail.com  Tue Jul 30 23:05:38 2019
From: guicho2.71828 at gmail.com (Guicho 271828)
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 19:05:38 -0400
Subject: Moved into Boston
In-Reply-To: <9fe4ac68-c7dd-305e-d5f0-25421ea701d3@gmail.com>
References: <616520cd-256d-8bb1-f659-d565cbc51a18@gmail.com>
 <CAN7nBXcW1SUP0K4ng8o5zeJ6im4ZhQBfjJctK2LFjemandodyg@mail.gmail.com>
 <83cf5034-7dc4-2ae8-b755-4b2a4608a781@gmail.com>
 <CAN0SZeij3ehOWMYv4LkyS-65wQePqRQq9sbu+U2oc4+ABhZFFw@mail.gmail.com>
 <9fe4ac68-c7dd-305e-d5f0-25421ea701d3@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <CAL2JeXWcikF0xPVfK9XPdrDPR-peWXs7NUphAoXWynPn279w5g@mail.gmail.com>

Ok, It seems the new boss at Cambridge seems to be much more liberal and
open-minded than
the manager I had in Japan. I got an approval. Please go ahead -- update
the info. Thank you.

On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 5:44 PM Masataro Asai <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Please do not do it yet --- I should ask my boss if I can give a talk.
> (the abstract is almost a copy from my paper abstract, to avoid issues)
>
> Jonathan Godbout wrote:
> > It should be updated: https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 7:33 AM Masataro Asai <guicho2.71828 at gmail.com
> > <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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/
>


-- 
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(private): http://guicho271828.github.io/
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