Leslie Pack Kaelbling
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Leslie Pack Kaelbling is the Ellen Swallow Richards Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has made research contributions to decision-making under uncertainty, learning, and sensing with applications to robotics, with a particular focus on reinforcement learning and planning in partially observable domains.

She holds an A.B in philosphy and a Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford University, and has previously held positions at SRI International, Teleos Research, and Brown University. She is the recipient of the US NSF Presidential Faculty Fellowship, the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award, and several teaching prizes, and is a fellow of the AAAI. She was the founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Machine Learning Research.


Lectures:

debate
flag Engineering Human-Machine Relationships
as moderator at  MIT World Series: EECS Centennial Celebration,
together with: Victor Zue, Barbara Liskov, Rodney A. Brooks, Martin Schmidt,
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  invited talk
flag Intelligent Interaction with the Real World
as author at  24th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Atlanta 2010,
4398 views
lecture
flag Why Robbie Can't Learn: The Difficulty of Learning in Autonomous Agents
as author at  MIT World Series: EECS Colloquium Series,
1984 views