Artificial Intelligence Reading Group

Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Reading Group homepage. We are a group of graduate students that meet approximately weekly to discuss papers relevant to our research in Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics.

Papers discussed can range from the most recent conference proceedings to AI classics to key papers on the AI qualifying exam list. The goal of the reading group is to give members a chance to see what other researchers in the department's AI area are thinking about and working on.

Anyone interested in participating in the reading group should subscribe to the airg mailing list. Note that if you are subscribing from a non-UW e-mail address you will also need to send a separate e-mail to the current AIRG organizer in order for your subscription to be approved. Instructions for subscribing:

https://lists.cs.wisc.edu/mailman/listinfo/airg

Meetings in Fall 2011

Meetings will be at 4:00pm on Wednesdays in the Computer Sciences building (room 3310). This is the current schedule of presentations:

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Procedures

As a discussion leader, you should select a paper related to your research, read it carefully if you haven't already, and present it to the group. Focus especially on how the paper relates to or may impact your own research. Please keep your presentation at a high level and shorter than 20 minutes. .

As a discussion attendee, please come prepared to make one contribution to discussion. Its form will depend on your level of expertise in the area. You may want to:

Criticize an aspect of the paper.

Ask an extension question.

Ask a clarification question (as we all may experience similar confusions).

Draw connections to your field.

Make an outlandish claim to provide a spark.

Paper presentations are scheduled well ahead of time, usually at the start of the semester by the AIRG organizer. Preliminary research/practice talks can be scheduled as needed by contacting the current organizer. Note that students that have presented a paper have priority when scheduling preliminary research or practice talks.

Tips on choosing papers:

Generally people choose conference-length ones, though longer ones are okay if you only expect people to skim instead of reading in depth.

Don't choose something that only five people in the world will understand.

Choose something that will lead to a discussion that gives you ideas and suggestions for your research.

Previous Semesters

Papers discussed in previous semesters can be found in the archive. See also the schedule for an 838 section from 2004 that covered statistical relational learning.

The AIRG web site is currently maintained by Jeremy Weiss (jcweiss@cs...).