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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>We have faculty candidates in both CS and MAT giving talks on Monday. Please attend! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>The CS talk (at 3:30pm in the CS conference room) by Lu Wang (from Cornell) has already been announced (<a href="http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/news/events/lu-wang-colloquium">http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/news/events/lu-wang-colloquium</a>). The MAT talk is at 5:00pm in 1605 Elings, and is by Sonia Chernova (from WPI) on human-robot interaction and learning. Both should be of interest to the lab; please attend one or two of them!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'> Matthew<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Matthew Turk [mailto:mturk@cs.ucsb.edu] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, February 28, 2015 1:54 PM<br><b>To:</b> faculty@cs.ucsb.edu; grads@cs.ucsb.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> FW: Robots that Learn from Everyday People, Sonia Chernova, Monday, March 2, 5:00-6:30PM in Elings Hall 1605<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>I’m not sure if this made it to the regular CS colloquium list, so if not: This is a talk on Monday at 5pm (yes, 5pm!) in 1605 Elings by a faculty candidate in Media Arts and Technology. Sonia Chernova (PhD from CMU, postdoc at MIT Media Lab, currently faculty at WPI) works on human-robot interaction and learning - <a href="http://users.wpi.edu/~soniac/">http://users.wpi.edu/~soniac/</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'>All are welcome!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0F243E'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> George Legrady [<a href="mailto:legrady@arts.ucsb.edu">mailto:legrady@arts.ucsb.edu</a>] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, February 27, 2015 10:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> George Legrady<br><b>Subject:</b> Robots that Learn from Everyday People, Sonia Chernova, Monday, March 2, 5:00-6:30PM in Elings Hall 1605<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Please join us to hear a talk by Sonia Chernova, director of the Robot Autonomy and Interactive Learning (RAIL) lab at Worcester Polytechnic Institute</span>. The lecture will take place <span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>on Monday, March 2 at 5:00pm in Elings Hall, 1605. There will be a Q&A session immediately following her presentation. </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Title: Robots that Learn from Everyday People<br><br>The development of collaborative robots that work alongside human users is of critical importance for furthering industries as diverse as manufacturing, healthcare, defense, and consumer services. To operate effectively in these complex domains, robots must have the ability to adapt to user preferences and learn from user input. In this talk, I will discuss how my research group has leveraged innovations in cloud computing, crowdsourcing and remote access technologies to gain unprecedented access to data and users, fundamentally altering the way in which interactive robotic systems are developed and deployed. I will present applications of this research paradigm to robot learning from demonstration, object manipulation and semantic reasoning, as well as discuss exciting avenues for future research in this area.<br><br>Sonia Chernova is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science and Robotics Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and the director of the Robot Autonomy and Interactive Learning (RAIL) lab. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University in 2009, and worked as a Postdoctoral Associate at the MIT Media Lab prior to joining WPI. Her research interests span robotics, interactive machine learning, adjustable autonomy, human computation and human-robot interaction. Dr. Chernova's research is supported through funding from NSF, ONR and DARPA, including the NSF CAREER, NSF NRI and ONR YIP awards. Her work has been covered by national and international press, including the New York Times, National Geographic, New Scientist, ComputerWorld, NPR and the BBC. Among other service appointments, she currently serves on the Steering and Program Committees of the HRI conference and on the AAAI Executive Council.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>George Legrady<br>Dept. Chair, Media Arts & Technology<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Director, Experimental Visualization Lab University of California, Santa Barbara<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Phelps Hall 3309<br>Santa Barbara, CA 93106<br><br>Cell 323-346-7619<br><a href="mailto:legrady@mat.ucsb.edu">legrady@mat.ucsb.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://vislab.mat.ucsb.edu">http://vislab.mat.ucsb.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>