Dr. Rob Hyndman draws from statistical research to discuss the conditions needed for predictability and how to measure the uncertainty of predictions.
Dr. Peter Stone will discuss the evolution of intelligent robots and the machine learning, multiagent systems and robotics research involved therein.
Dr. MacCallum will discuss research on an Epistemological Database which aids the performance of IE joint inference and will present recent work.
Dr. Steven Skiena will discuss his computational social science methodology for ranking historical figures, with assessment results and applications.
Dr. Ben Shneiderman, Founding Director of the University of Maryland HCI Lab, will present on "Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery."