SUMMARY OF JUERGEN SCHMIDHUBER'S PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES IN 2010

PUBLICATIONS OF 2010 
For pre-2010 and post-2010 articles, PDFs / HTMLs / overviews see http://www.idsia.ch/~juergen/onlinepub.html

BOOKS 2010
J. Schmidhuber, F. Gomez, A. Graves, S. Hochreiter. 
Sequence Learning with Artificial Recurrent Neural Networks. Invited by Cambridge University Press, in preparation. (Aiming to become THE textbook on RNN).

JOURNALS 2010
8. D. C. Ciresan, U. Meier, L. M. Gambardella, J. Schmidhuber. Deep Big Simple Neural Nets For Handwritten Digit Recognition. Neural Computation 22(12): 3207-3220.
7. J. Schmidhuber. Formal Theory of Creativity, Fun, and Intrinsic Motivation (1990-2010). IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development 2(3):230-247, 2010.
6. J. Schmidhuber. The new AI is general and mathematically rigorous. Front. Electr. Electron. Eng. China, DOI 10.1007/s11460-010-0105-z, 2010.
5. T. Schaul and J. Schmidhuber.  Metalearning. Scholarpedia, 2010.
4. S. Danafar, A. Giusti, J. Schmidhuber. New State-of-the-Art Recognizers of Human Actions. EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, doi:10.1155/2010/202768, 2010.
3. T. Schaul, J. Bayer, D. Wierstra, S. Yi, M. Felder, F. Sehnke, T. Rueckstiess, J. Schmidhuber. PyBrain. Journal of Machine Learning Research (JMLR), 11:743-746, 2010.
2. F. Sehnke, C. Osendorfer, T. Rueckstiess, A. Graves, J. Peters, J. Schmidhuber. Parameter-exploring policy gradients. Neural Networks 23(2), 2010. 
1. D. Wierstra, A. Foerster, J. Peters, J. Schmidhuber. Recurrent Policy Gradients. Logic Journal of IGPL 18:620-634, 2010

CONFERENCES 2010
12. S. Yi, F. Gomez, J. Schmidhuber (2010). Improving Asymptotic Performance of Markov Chain Monte-Carlo by Inserting Vortices. In Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS 2010). 
11. S. Danafar, A. Gretton, and J. Schmidhuber. Characteristic Kernels on Structured Domains Excel in Robotics and Human Action Recognition. Proc. ECML 2010.
10. J. Koutnik, F. Gomez, J. Schmidhuber (2010).  Evolving Neural Networks in Compressed Weight Space. Proceedings of the Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO-10). 
9. T. Glasmachers, T. Schaul, Y. Sun, J. Schmidhuber. Exponential Natural Evolution Strategies. Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), 2010. Best paper nomination.
8. M. Gruettner, F. Sehnke, T. Schaul, and J. Schmidhuber. Multi-dimensional deep memory go-player for parameter exploring policy gradients. In Proc. ICANN 2010. 
7. U. Ruehrmair, F. Sehnke, J. Soelter, S. Devadas, and J. Schmidhuber. Modeling attacks on physical unclonable functions. In Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security, ACM CCS 2010, 2010. 
6. F. Sehnke, C. Osendorfer, J. Soelter, J. Schmidhuber, U. Ruehrmair. Policy gradients for cryptanalysis. In W. Duch K. Diamantaras and L. Iliadis, editors, Proc. ICANN 2010.
5. T. Glasmachers, T. Schaul, J. Schmidhuber. A Natural Evolution Strategy for Multi-Objective Optimization. Parallel Problem Solving from Nature (PPSN) XI, 2010.
4. J. Koutnik, F. Gomez, J. Schmidhuber. Searching for Minimal Neural Networks in Fourier Space. 3rd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-10), 2010.
3. T. Schaul, J. Schmidhuber. Towards Practical Universal Search. 3rd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-10), 2010.
2. S. Yi, T. Glasmachers, T. Schaul, J. Schmidhuber. Frontier Search. 3rd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-10), 2010. AGI 2010 best paper award (Kurzweil Prize). 
1. J. Schmidhuber. Artificial Scientists & Artists Based on the Formal Theory of Creativity. 3rd Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-10), 2010.

TEACHING 2009
WS 2010/2011: Masters Course Intelligent Systems (Machine Learning)

SCIENTIFIC SERVICE 2010
JS reviewed scientific grant proposals and papers,
and served on the editorial boards of the following journals:
4. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
3. Cognitive Computation
2. Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics
1. Guest editor of special Issue of the journal "Algorithms" on "Algorithmic Complexity in Physics & Embedded Artificial Intelligences" 

HONORS 2010
2. Best paper award at AGI 2010 (Kurzweil Prize, with Yi, Schaul, Glasmachers)
1. Best paper nomination at GECCO 2010 (with Glasmachers, Schaul, Yi)

SELECTED INVITED TALKS 2010
20 Dec 2010: Invited Talk for Google Zuerich 
20 Sep 2010: Keynote for Joint Conferences ECML 2010 / PKDD 2010, Barcelona
20 May 2010: Keynote for GP Theory & Practice 2010, Ann Arbor, MI (25th anniversary of GP)

EXTERNALLY FUNDED PROJECTS SINCE 2009 (exchange rates of 2009)
Value of Schmidhuber's direct external competitive funding through new grants since 2009: ~US$5.6m
(not counting ongoing projects that started earlier). Total value of corresponding new projects: >US$30m
Sources: EU, SNF, CTI, Industry, others.