SUMMARY OF JUERGEN SCHMIDHUBER'S PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN 2011

PUBLICATIONS OF 2011 (published / accepted)
    (for pre-2011 and post-2011 articles, PDFs/HTMLs/overviews see http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/onlinepub.html)

BOOKS 2011
2.  J. Schmidhuber, K. R. Thorisson, M. Looks (editors): Artificial General Intelligence. Proceedings of the 4th International Conference, AGI 2011, Mountain View, CA, USA, August 3-6, 2011, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 6830, 2011, Springer, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-22887-2.
1.  J. Schmidhuber, F. Gomez, A. Graves, S. Hochreiter. Sequence Learning with Artificial Recurrent Neural Networks. (Aiming to become the definitive textbook on RNN.) Invited by Cambridge University Press, in preparation.

JOURNALS 2011 
5.  T. Glasmachers, J. Koutnik, J. Schmidhuber. Kernel Representations for Evolving Continuous Functions.  Evolutionary Intelligence Journal, accepted 2011.
4.  J. Schmidhuber. Philosophers & Futurists, Catch Up! Response to The Singularity. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 2012, in press.
3.  J. Schmidhuber. Citation Bubble About to Burst? Correspondence, Nature, vol. 469, p. 34,  2011
2.  V. Graziano, T. Glasmachers, T. Schaul, L. Pape, G. Cuccu, J. Leitner, J. Schmidhuber. Artificial Curiosity for Autonomous Space Exploration.  Acta Futura 4:41-51, 2011 (DOI: 10.2420/AF04.2011.41)
1.  T. Rueckstiess, J. Schmidhuber. A Python Experiment Suite. The Python Papers 6(1):2, 2011

INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS 2011
4.  J. Schmidhuber. The Fastest Way of Computing All Universes. In H. Zenil, ed., A Computable Universe. World Scientific, 2012, in press.
3.  J. Schmidhuber. Maximizing Fun By Creating Data With Easily Reducible Subjective Complexity. In G. Baldassarre and M. Mirolli  (eds.), Roadmap for Intrinsically Motivated Learning. Springer, 2012, in press.
2.  J. Schmidhuber.  A Formal Theory of Creativity to Model the Creation of Art. In J. McCormack (ed.), Computational Creativity. MIT Press, 2012, in press.
1.  J. Schmidhuber. Randomness, Occam's Razor, AI, Creativity and Digital Physics. In H. Zenil, ed., Randomness Through Computation. World Scientific, 2011.

CONFERENCES 2011
28. V. R. Kompella, M. Luciw, J. Schmidhuber. Incremental Slow Feature Analysis. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2011, Barcelona), 2011.
27. D. C. Ciresan, U. Meier, J. Masci, L. M. Gambardella, J. Schmidhuber. Flexible, High Performance Convolutional Neural Networks for Image Classification. International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2011, Barcelona), 2011.
26. V. R. Kompella, L. Pape, J. Masci, M. Frank and J. Schmidhuber. AutoIncSFA and Vision-based Developmental Learning for Humanoid Robots, 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), Bled, Slovenia, 2011.
25. J. Nagi, F. Ducatelle, G. A. Di Caro, D. Ciresan, U. Meier, A. Giusti, F. Nagi, J. Schmidhuber, L. M. Gambardella. Max-Pooling Convolutional Neural Networks for Vision-based Hand Gesture Recognition. IEEE International Conference on Signal and Image Processing Applications, 2011.
24. M. Frank, A. Foerster, J. Schmidhuber. Reflexive Collision Response with Virtual Skin. International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence ICAART 2012, accepted 2011.
23. Yi Sun, F. Gomez, M. Ring, J. Schmidhuber. Incremental Basis Construction from Temporal Difference Error. Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML-11), 2011.
22. V. Graziano, J. Koutnik, J. Schmidhuber. Unsupervised Modeling of Partially Observable Environments. 22nd European Conference on Machine Learning ECML, Athens, 2011.
21. U. Meier, D. C. Ciresan, L. M. Gambardella, J. Schmidhuber. Better Digit Recognition with a Committee of Simple Neural Nets. 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011), Beijing, China, 2011.
20. D. C. Ciresan, U. Meier, L. M. Gambardella, J. Schmidhuber. Convolutional Neural Network Committees For Handwritten Character Classification. 11th International Conference on Document Analysis and Recognition (ICDAR 2011), Beijing, China, 2011.
19. T. Schaul, T. Glasmachers, J. Schmidhuber. High Dimensions and Heavy Tails for Natural Evolution Strategies. Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2011, Dublin), 2011.
18. T. Schaul, Yi Sun, D. Wierstra, F. Gomez, J. Schmidhuber. Curiosity-Driven Optimization. IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC-2011), 2011.
17. D. C. Ciresan, U. Meier, J. Masci, J. Schmidhuber. A Committee of Neural Networks for Traffic Sign Classification. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2011, San Francisco), 2011.
16. L. Pape, F. Gomez, M. Ring, J. Schmidhuber. Modular deep belief networks that do not forget. International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN-2011, San Francisco), 2011.
15. J. Masci, D. C. Ciresan, U. Meier, J. Schmidhuber. Stacked Convolutional Auto-Encoders for Hierarchical Feature Extraction. International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN-2011, Espoo, Finland), 2011.
14. M. Ring, T. Schaul, J. Schmidhuber. The Two-Dimensional Organization of Behavior. In Proc. Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob 2011), Frankfurt, 2011.
13. G. Cuccu, M. Luciw, J. Schmidhuber, F. Gomez. Intrinsically Motivated Evolutionary Search for Vision-Based Reinforcement Learning. In Proc. Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob 2011), Frankfurt, 2011.
12. H. Ngo, M. Ring, J. Schmidhuber. Curiosity Drive based on Compression Progress for Learning Environment Regularities. In Proc. Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob 2011), Frankfurt, 2011.
11. M. Luciw, V. Graziano, M. Ring, J. Schmidhuber. Artificial Curiosity with Planning for Autonomous Visual and Perceptual Development. In Proc. Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL) and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob 2011), Frankfurt, 2011.
10. J. Schmidhuber, D. Ciresan, U. Meier, J. Masci, A. Graves. On Fast Deep Nets for AGI Vision. In Proc. Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-11), Google, Mountain View, California, 2011.
9.  M. Ring, T. Schaul. Q-error as a Selection Mechanism in Modular Reinforcement-Learning Systems. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2011, Barcelona),} 2011.
8.  L. Pape, A. Kok. Real-world limits to algorithmic intelligence. Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, Mountain View, CA. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 6830, 394-400, 2011.
7.  G. Cuccu, F. Gomez, T. Glasmachers. Novelty Restarts for Evolutionary Strategies. In Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC, New Orleans), 2011.
6.  G. Cuccu, F. Gomez. When Novelty is Not Enough. In Proceedings of Evostar 2011 (Turin, Italy), 2011
5.  S. Yi, F. Gomez, J. Schmidhuber. Planning to Be Surprised: Optimal Bayesian Exploration in Dynamic Environments. In Proc. Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-11), Google, Mountain View, California, 2011.
4.  T. Glasmachers, J. Schmidhuber. Optimal Direct Policy Search. In Proc. Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-11), Google, Mountain View, California, 2011.
3.  L. Gisslen, M. Luciw, V. Graziano, J. Schmidhuber. Sequential Constant Size Compressors and Reinforcement Learning. In Proc. Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-11), Google, Mountain View, California, 2011.   {\bf Kurzweil Prize for Best AGI Paper 2011.}
2.  T. Schaul, L. Pape, T. Glasmachers, V. Graziano J. Schmidhuber. Coherence Progress: A Measure of Interestingness Based on Fixed Compressors. In Proc. Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-11), Google, Mountain View, California, 2011.
1.  B. Steunebrink, J. Schmidhuber. A Family of Goedel Machine Implementations. In Proc. Fourth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-11), Google, Mountain View, California, 2011.

HONORS 2011

BEST PAPERS 2011
1.  2011, Google Headquarters, Mountain View, CA: Best paper award at AGI 2011 (Kurzweil Prize, with Gisslen, Luciw, Graziano).
2.  The 2011 Solomonoff AGI Theory Prize was shared by M. Ring of JS' group.

FIRST PRIZES IN INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS 2011
    The neural networks developed in JS' lab won several contests (with Ciresan, Meier, Masci):
1.  IJCNN 2011 on-site Traffic Sign Recognition Competition (1st rank, 2 August 2011, 0.56 % error rate, the only method better than humans, who achieved 1.16 % on average; 3rd place for 1.69 %).
2.  ICDAR 2011 offline Chinese handwritten character recognition competition (1st rank in June 2011).
3.  Online German Traffic Sign Recognition Contest (1st & 2nd rank; 1.02% error rate), January 2011.

FRIST RANKS IN MACHINE LEARNING BENCHMARKS 2011
1.  MNIST handwritten digits data set (perhaps the most famous machine learning benchmark). New record (0.27%) in June 2011, and human-competitive performance (0.23%) in Dec 2011.
2.  NORB stereo image data set, NY University, 2004. New records in 2011.
3.  CIFAR-10 image data set of Univ. Toronto. New records in 2011.

SELECTED INVITED TALKS 2011
4.  1  Aug 2011: Keynote for IJCNN 2011, San Jose, California: 2nd Neural Network ReNNaissance & Formal Theory of Fun
3.  4  June 2011: World Science Festival, New York, New York: Rebooting the Cosmos. Panel: Is the Universe the Ultimate Computer?
2.  27 June 2011: Carl v. Linde Academy, Munich: Optimal AI for all computable universes (Bavarian TV taped this)
1.  16 Jan 2011: Invited Talk for the Winter Intelligence Conference, Future of Humanity Institute, Oxford (video available)
    MORE:
22  Nov 2011 University of Pisa
20  Oct 2011 Exhibit 'Da Vinci al Macello' 
9   Aug 2011 Stanford University
29  Jun 2011 Free University Amsterdam,
23  Feb 2011 Arcelor Mittal in Metz
30  Apr 2011 CapoCaccia Neuroinformatics
11  Apr 2011 Max Planck Institute Tuebingen
31  Mar 2011 University Bern

TEACHING 2011
WS  2011/2012: Masters Course Intelligent Systems (Machine Learning)

SCIENTIFIC SERVICE 2011
JS reviewed scientific grant proposals and papers,
and served on the editorial boards of various journals.

EXTERNALLY FUNDED PROJECTS SINCE 2009 
Value of Schmidhuber's direct external competitive funding at IDSIA 
through new grants since 2009 (without funding for project partners): > US$ 6m
(not counting ongoing projects that started earlier). 
Total value of corresponding new projects: many times more.
Sources: EU, SNF, CTI, Industry, others.