Symbolic Systems Forum - Andrew Ng, Computer Science Department

Andrew Ng, Computer Science Department, "Machine Learning, Spam Classification, and Autonomous Helicopter Flight"

ABSTRACT:

Helicopters have complex, highly non-intuitive, noisy dynamics, and autonomous helicopter flight represents one of the most challenging control problems. In this talk, I will describe the key ideas that had enabled the successful application of machine learning to designing a controller for our autonomous helicopter here at Stanford. I will also describe the application of these ideas to some other challenging control problems, such as four-legged robot locomotion.

BIO:

Andrew Ng is an assistant professor in the Computer Science department at Stanford University. His research interests include artificial intelligence, machine learning, and algorithms for web and text data processing.