Hi, 


this Thursday, shortly before the IBM visit and before NIPS, we will have a talk by Guido Montufar from the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences in Leipzig: 
   
    A Theory of Cheap Control in Embodied Systems

hope to see many of you there, 

    j

-- Abstract & Info --
Who: Guido F. Montufar
When: Thursday, December 3rd, 11:00 am 
Where: AA 3195

A Theory of Cheap Control in Embodied Systems
http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004427

Given a body and an environment, what is the brain complexity needed in order to generate a desired set of behaviors? In this talk I will discuss an approach that links the physical and behavioral constraints of an agent to the required controller complexity. I will exemplify the approach with a conditional restricted Boltzmann machine as a controller architecture and present experiments conducted with a virtual six-legged walking creature.