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Michael Littman

Michael Littman

Professor, Computer Science
Brown University

Disciplines: Computer Science and Statistics

Michael L. Littman's research in machine learning examines algorithms for decision-making under uncertainty. He has earned multiple awards for teaching, and his research on meta-learning for computer crossword-solving, complexity analysis of planning under uncertainty, and algorithms for efficient reinforcement learning has been recognized with three best-paper awards. Littman has served on the editorial boards for the Journal of Machine Learning Research and the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. In 2013, he was general chair of the International Conference on Machine Learning and program chair of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference.

Website: http://www.cs.brown.edu/~mlittman

Articles

The Path To A Programmable World
Internet of Things

The Path To A Programmable World

By Michael Littman & Samuel Kortchmar, Brown University June 11, 2014

How responsive devices – and simple systems for programming them – will shape the world to fit our needs and preferences.

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