October 16, 2007

Yahoo! is hosting a pre-workshop dinner at the Royal Plaza Hotel starting at 7PM.

October 17, 2007

09:00Continental Breakfast
09:30 Opening Remarks
09:45 Invited Talk by Kiri Wagstaff, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Machine Learning in Space
10:15Claire Monteleoni, UC San Diego
A general agnostic active learning algorithm
10:35Jo-Anne Ting, University of Southern California
Bayesian Nonparametric Regression with Local Models
10:55 Coffee break
11:15Invited Talk by Marta Arias, Columbia University
Applying machine learning to a real-world problem: real-time ranking of electric components
11:45Hanna Wallach, University of Cambridge
Generating Summary Keywords for Emails Using Topics
12:05Emma Brunskill, MIT
Continuous-State POMDPs with Hybrid Dynamics
12:25Spotlights
Luiza Antonie, University of Alberta
Advancing Associative Classifiers - Challenges and Sollutions

Shivali Gupta, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Sonar Terrain Mapping with BDI Agents

Raia Hadsell, NYU
Online Learning for OffRoad Robots

Elena Zheleva, University of Maryland
Preserving the Privacy of Sensitive Relationships in Graph Data
12:45Lunch
14:20Invited Talk by Nina Mishra, University of Virginia
14:50Isabelle Stanton, University of Virginia
Clustering Social Networks
15:10Coffee Break
15:30Invited Talk by Sally Goldman, Washington University
Applications of Machine Learning to Image Retrieval
16:00Soumi Ray, University of Maryland Baltimore County
Improvement in Performance of Learning Using Scaling
16:20Poster session
17:10Panel/open discussion
17:40 Concluding remarks