SUMMARY OF SCHMIDHUBER'S PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN 2006 PUBLICATIONS OF 2006 (published, accepted, invited) (for PDFs / HTMLs see http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/onlinepub.html): JOURNALS: 7. M. Gagliolo, J. Schmidhuber: Learning Dynamic Algorithm Portfolios. Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, accepted 2006. 6. A. Chernov, M. Hutter, J. Schmidhuber. Algorithmic Complexity Bounds on Future Prediction Errors. Information and Computation, accepted 2006. 5. H. Mayer, F. Gomez, D. Wierstra, I. Nagy, A. Knoll, and J. Schmidhuber. A System for Robotic Heart Surgery that Learns to Tie Knots Using Recurrent Neural Networks. Advanced Robotics, accepted 2006. 4. J. Schmidhuber. Alle berechenbaren Universen. Spektrum der Wissenschaft (German edition of Scientific American), invited in 2006. 3. J. Schmidhuber, D. Wierstra, M. Gagliolo, F. Gomez. Training Recurrent Networks by Evolino. Neural Computation, accepted in 2006. 2. J. Schmidhuber. Developmental Robotics, Optimal Artificial Curiosity, Creativity, Music, and the Fine Arts. Connection Science, 18(2): 173-187, June 2006. 1. J. Schmidhuber. The Computational Universe. Review of Programming the Universe: A Quantum Computer Scientist Takes on the Cosmos, by Seth Lloyd. American Scientist, July-August 2006. SHORT CORRESPONDENCE: 2. J. Schmidhuber: Colossus was the first electronic digital computer. Nature 441 p 25, May 2006. 1. J. Schmidhuber: Randomness in physics. Nature 439 p 392, Jan 2006. CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS: 10. S. Fernandez, A. Graves, J. Schmidhuber. Sequence labelling in structured domains with hierarchical recurrent neural networks. In Proc. 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07), Hyderabad, India, 2007 (talk). 9. M. Gagliolo and J. Schmidhuber. Learning restart strategies. In Proc. 20th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 07), Hyderabad, India, 2007 (talk). 8. F. Gomez, J. Schmidhuber, and R. Miikkulainen (2006). Efficient Non-Linear Control through Neuroevolution. Proceedings of the European Conference on Machine Learning (ECML-06, Berlin). 7. H. Mayer, F. Gomez, D. Wierstra, I. Nagy, A. Knoll, and J. Schmidhuber (2006). A System for Robotic Heart Surgery that Learns to Tie Knots Using Recurrent Neural Networks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Robotics and Systems (IROS-06, Beijing). 6. A. Graves, S. Fernandez, F. Gomez, J. Schmidhuber. Connectionist Temporal Classification: Labelling Unsegmented Sequence Data with Recurrent Neural Networks. Proceedings of the International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-06, Pittsburgh), 2006. 5. B. Bakker, V. Zhumatiy, G. Gruener, J. Schmidhuber. Quasi-Online Reinforcement Learning for Robots. Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA-06), Orlando, Florida, 2006. 4. A. Chernov, J. Schmidhuber. Prefix-like Complexities and Computability in the Limit. Proc. of Second Conference on Computability in Europe, CiE 2006, LNCS 3988, pp. 85-93. 3. V. Zhumatiy, F. Gomez, M. Hutter, and J. Schmidhuber. Metric State Space Reinforcement Learning for a Vision-Capable Mobile Robot. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, IAS-06, Tokyo, 2006. 2. J. Schmidhuber, M. Gagliolo, D. Wierstra, F. Gomez. Evolino for Recurrent Support Vector Machines. In Proceedings of the European Symposium on Artificial Neural Networks (ESANN-06, Bruge), 2006. 1. M. Gagliolo, J. Schmidhuber. Dynamic Algorithm Portfolios. AIMATH06, Ninth International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Mathematics, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, 2006. ACCEPTANCE RATES where known: IJCAI 2007: 15% (2 talks), ICML 2006: 20%, ECML 2006: 21%, CIE 2006: <30%, ICRA 2006: 39%, IROS 2006: 46%. INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS: 4. J. Schmidhuber. 2006: Celebrating 75 years of AI - History and Outlook: the Next 25 Years. In R. Pfeiffer et al., eds., AI Summit Proceedings, invited in 2006. 3. J. Schmidhuber. New Millennium AI. In W. Duch and J. Mandziuk, eds., Challenges to Computational Intelligence, 2006, in press. Preprint: arxiv.org/abs/cs.AI/0606081, 19 June 2006. 2. J. Schmidhuber. Goedel machines: self-referential universal problem solvers making provably optimal self-improvements. In B. Goertzel and C. Pennachin, eds.: Artificial General Intelligence, p. 201-228, 2006. 1. J. Schmidhuber. The New AI: General & Sound & Relevant for Physics. In B. Goertzel and C. Pennachin, eds.: Artificial General Intelligence, p. 177-200, 2006. OTHER SELECTED JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS OF SCHMIDHUBER'S GROUP 6. M. Hutter. On Generalized Computable Universal Priors and their Convergence. Theoretical Computer Science 364:1 (2006) 27-41 5. M. Hutter and S. Legg. Fitness Uniform Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 10:5 (2006) 568-589 4. J. Poland and M. Hutter. MDL Convergence Speed for Bernoulli Sequences. Statistics and Computing, 16 (2006) 161-175 3. M. Hutter and M. Mastrolilli. Hybrid Rounding Techniques for Knapsack Problems. Discrete Applied Mathematics, 154:4 (2006) 640-649 2. R. Rojas and A. Gloye Foerster. Holonomic Control of a robot with an omnidirectional drive, KI - Kuenstliche Intelligenz 20:2, 2006 1. M. Hutter. Sequential Predictions based on Algorithmic Complexity. Journal of Computer and System Sciences, 72:1 (2006) 95-117 SELECTED INVITED TALKS: Nov 8: MPI, Berlin: Progress in Theory and Practice of ML Nov 6: Zuse Symposium (Informatikjahr 2006): Is the Universe a Computer? Jul 27: GW Artificial Life 7, Jena: Goedel Machines May 27: Turing Days, Istanbul: Universal Problem Solvers Mar 21: Cognitive Systems, Luxembourg Jan 31: Dagstuhl Castle: Algorithmic Information and Randomness Jan 24: LMU-TUM Colloquium: Progress in Machine Learning Sep 22: Sarntal Summer School (Music & Machine Learning) PRESENT TEACHING at TUM (WS 06/07 only) With Christian Osendorfer and Thomas Rueckstiess Course Machine Learning 1 Machine Learning Lab Course (Praktikum) Proseminar Game Theory (2 separate editions) Proseminar Music & Computer Science Seminar Machine Learning and Computer Vision Seminar for PhD students TALKS ORGANIZED AT TUM: 18 Jan: Marcus Hutter (IDSIA): Universal Prediction Machines 17 Oct: Keyan Zahidi (Fraunhofer): Evolutionary Robotics 19 Oct: Ulrike Thomas (Braunschweig): Automated Robot Programming 26 Oct: Alex Graves (IDSIA): Probabilistic Methods + Recurrent Nets 2 Nov: Frank Sehnke (Tuebingen): Robocup, Self-Adaption, Vision 21 Nov: Tobias Kringe (Zuerich / Florida / Osnabrueck): The 6th Sense 22 Nov: Martin Felder (LRZ, NASA, DLR): Neural Nets for Satellite Data 23 Nov: Alexander Gloye (IDSIA), Leader of Robocup World Champion 2004 30 Nov: Jan Peters (Univ. S. California): Motor Skill Learning in Robotics 20 Dec: Tijmen Tielemann (Univ. Toronto): Motor Programs from Images of Handwritten Digits 22 Dec: Susanne Still (Univ. Hawaii): Info Theory & Behavior Learning TALKS ORGANIZED AT IDSIA: Jan 18: Pedro Ortega, Spain Feb 17: Christian Osendorfer, Germany Feb 22: Laurent Orseau, France Mar 1: Jose Martin, Spain May 2: Nil Geisweiler, UK Jul 7: Vali Derhami, Iran Aug 28: Francisco Tapiador, Spain Aug 28: Ramon Martonak, Switzerland Sep 9: Federico Felici, Holland Oct 12: Alexander Repenning, Colorado Oct 24: Ricardo Tellez, Spain Oct 24: Tijmen Tieleman, Canada Nov 14: Diego Pardo, Spain Nov 28: Frank Pasemann, Germany Nov 28: Paul Crook, UK Nov 29: Jan Peters, California Dec 1: Marcus Liwicki, Switzerland Dec 14: Susanne Still, Hawaii Dec 14: Tom Schaul, Luxembourg & US NEW GRANTS of 2006: 1. NanoBioTact (TUM): EU project on tactile sensing (2006-2009, ca. US$ 420,000; total: US$ 3.6 million). 2. CoTeSys (TUM): Schmidhuber is one of the PIs of the Excellence Cluster Cognitive Technical Systems (2006-2011). Total funding: ca. US$ 7.5 million per year for 5 years, as part of the Excellence Initiative (US$ 2.4 billion for 2006-2011), which selected Munich's TUM and LMU as two of the three new German "Elite Universities". 3. Supervised RNN (IDSIA): SNF project (2006-2009, ca. US$ 330,000). 4. Theory & Practice of RL (IDSIA): SNF project (2006-2008, ca. US$ 225,000). 5. Industry grant from CSEM (2006, US$ 50,000). 6. External funding for research visits from Spain (6 months), Iran (6 months), Holland (4 months) (2006, ~US$ 50,000).