NSF's Michael L. Littman Confirmed as Artificial Intelligence Symposium Keynote Speaker
Littman will give the talk “Conveying Tasks to Computers: How Machine Learning Can Help.”
Littman is currently serving as the division director for Information and Intelligent Systems at the National Science Foundation. The division is home to the programs and program officers that support researchers in artificial intelligence, human-centered computing, data management, and assistive technologies, as well as those exploring the impact of intelligent information systems on society.
Littman is also a professor of computer science at Brown University, where he studies machine learning and decision-making under uncertainty. He has earned multiple university-level awards for teaching, and his research has been recognized with three best-paper awards and three influential paper awards. Littman is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence and the Association for Computing Machinery.
USD is currently seeking additional speakers for the Artificial Intelligence Symposium. For more information, contact KC.Santosh@usd.edu, founding chair of the symposium, and CS@usd.edu.
To learn more about the fourth annual Artificial Intelligence Symposium, visit usd.edu/AI-Symposium. The symposium is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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