<div dir="ltr">Ok, It seems the new boss at Cambridge seems to be much more liberal and open-minded than<div>the manager I had in Japan. I got an approval. Please go ahead -- update the info. Thank you.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 5:44 PM Masataro Asai <<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Please do not do it yet --- I should ask my boss if I can give a talk.<br>
(the abstract is almost a copy from my paper abstract, to avoid issues)<br>
<br>
Jonathan Godbout wrote:<br>
> It should be updated: <a href="https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://common-lisp.net/project/boston-lisp/</a><br>
> <br>
> <br>
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2019 at 7:33 AM Masataro Asai <<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a> <br>
> <mailto:<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> <br>
> Thank you for the invitation :)<br>
> <br>
> August 15th should work, but I need to confirm the schedule in the<br>
> company, which I cannot check now until I complete the onboarding<br>
> process of US IBM (although I have been in IBM Japan for quite a<br>
> while...)<br>
> <br>
> Will they be posted on any sort of MIT bulletin board? Is it more of an<br>
> academic event? That might need a permission from the manager. For an<br>
> informal meeting it should be fine.<br>
> <br>
> Blurb meaning the short description / abstract of the talk? Let me give<br>
> a try...<br>
> <br>
> For myself:<br>
> <br>
> Masataro Asai, aka guicho271828, is a Lisp hacker with 11 years of<br>
> experience in Common Lisp, who received a Ph.D in Artificial<br>
> Intelligence from the University of Tokyo. He is an expert in heuristic<br>
> graph search and automated planning and scheduling, also known as AI<br>
> Planning, with publications records on top AI conferences e.g. AAAI,<br>
> IJCAI, ICAPS. Author of a fast pattern match library Trivia, a<br>
> numerical<br>
> computation library NUMCL (which got 400 stars) and more.<br>
> <br>
> For the talk:<br>
> <br>
> Title: Make Symbols Great Again!: Classical PDDL/STRIPS Planning in<br>
> Deep<br>
> Latent Space<br>
> <br>
> Domain-independent classical planners require the symbolic models of<br>
> the<br>
> problem domain and instance as input, resulting in a knowledge<br>
> acquisition bottleneck. Meanwhile, although deep learning has achieved<br>
> significant success in many fields, the knowledge is encoded in a<br>
> subsymbolic representation which is incompatible with symbolic systems<br>
> such as planners. We introduce LatPlan, an unsupervised architecture<br>
> combining deep learning and classical planning. Given only an unlabeled<br>
> set of image pairs showing a subset of transitions allowed in the<br>
> environment (training inputs), and a pair of images representing the<br>
> initial and the goal states (planning inputs), LatPlan finds a plan to<br>
> the goal state in a symbolic latent space and returns a visualized plan<br>
> execution.<br>
> <br>
> In the talk, we also survey the recent progress in the related fields<br>
> and also informally talk about my future ambitions.<br>
> <br>
> Regards<br>
> Masataro<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> Faré wrote:<br>
> > Congratulations!<br>
> ><br>
> > Let's summon a Boston Lisp Meeting to greet you.<br>
> > How about Thursday August 15th at 1800?<br>
> ><br>
> > I'll try to reserve a room at MIT. Either way, we can meet for dinner<br>
> > afterwards.<br>
> ><br>
> > Can you give a speech on some topic of your choice? Otherwise is<br>
> there<br>
> > any other candidate?<br>
> > Can you give me a one-paragraph blurb about yourself, another one<br>
> > about your topic?<br>
> ><br>
> > —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics•<br>
> <a href="http://fare.tunes.org" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://fare.tunes.org</a><br>
> > Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent<br>
> perspiration.<br>
> > — Thomas Alva Edison<br>
> ><br>
> > On Sun, Jul 28, 2019 at 7:27 AM Masataro Asai<br>
> <<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
> >><br>
> >> Dear all,<br>
> >><br>
> >> I just moved to Boston yesterday. 5yr assignment.<br>
> >> Thanks<br>
> >><br>
> >> --<br>
> >> Masataro Asai Ph.D<br>
> >><br>
> >> Research Staff Member<br>
> >> IBM Research<br>
> >><br>
> >> Tel: +81-44-856-9009<br>
> >> Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357<br>
> >> Mail: <a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a>><br>
> >> Website: <a href="http://guicho271828.github.io/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://guicho271828.github.io/</a><br>
> >><br>
> <br>
> -- <br>
> Masataro Asai Ph.D<br>
> <br>
> Research Staff Member<br>
> IBM Research<br>
> <br>
> Tel: +81-44-856-9009<br>
> Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357<br>
> Mail: <a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a>><br>
> Website: <a href="http://guicho271828.github.io/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://guicho271828.github.io/</a><br>
> <br>
<br>
-- <br>
Masataro Asai Ph.D<br>
<br>
Research Staff Member<br>
IBM Research<br>
<br>
Tel: +81-44-856-9009<br>
Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357<br>
Mail: <a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a><br>
Website: <a href="http://guicho271828.github.io/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://guicho271828.github.io/</a><br>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Masataro Asai, Ph.D<br><br></div><div>Research Staff Member<br></div><div dir="ltr">IBM Research<br><br>Tel: +81-44-856-9009<br>Mobile: +81-50-5534-1357<br>Mail: <a href="mailto:guicho2.71828@gmail.com" target="_blank">guicho2.71828@gmail.com</a><br><br>Website(private): <a href="http://guicho271828.github.io/" target="_blank">http://guicho271828.github.io/</a><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>