The New York Academy of Sciences held their first-ever
Machine-Learning Symposium, attracting researchers from throughout the
Northeast to Lower Manhattan to hear invited talks, see grad-student
presented posters, and speak informally with each other.
http://www.nyas.org/events/eventDetail.asp?eventID=7587&date=10/27/2006%2010:00:00%20AM
Google sponsored a $500 prize for the best student poster, which was
given to our own Alex Strehl for his collaborative work:
Alexander L. Strehl, Lihong Li, Rutgers University; Eric Wiewiora,University of California, San Diego; John Langford, Yahoo! Research;Michael L. Littman, Rutgers University - "PAC Model-Free ReinforcementLearning"
Congratulations, Alex!