Hi! I think this might be interesting to some. I would guess you can participate in the class even if you are not a student. Mitar -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Anant SAHAI <sahai(a)eecs.berkeley.edu> Subject: [eecs-grads] Course Announcement: CS294 Collaborative Intelligent Agents and the DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge To: eecs-grads(a)eecs.berkeley.edu, eecs-announce(a)eecs.berkeley.edu Dear EECS grad students, I'm offering a research-oriented 294 course this semester, it will be held MW 1-2:30pm in 310 Soda. Course Description: This research-oriented course is about bringing artificial intelligence techniques based on machine learning and adaptation to the problem of collaboration rather than competition. Can we make agents that collaborate with each other without such agents having to be co-designed from the start? (i.e. How can we learn to collaborate with strangers?) This is an emerging research frontier with many fundamental problems and in this course, we are going to get to the frontier and together, explore beyond it. The hope is that many of the course projects will evolve into research papers (or even dissertations if so desired). To make things concrete, we will use the new DARPA Spectrum Collaboration Challenge as an example problem domain. In the last decade, the DARPA challenges were instrumental in kicking self-driving car technology into high gear. This new challenge aims to do the same for collaborative intelligence. Berkeley was selected to field a team in this challenge. Students do not require a wireless background to participate, as we will do a quick pass through the basics of wireless communication and networking as a small part of this course. The course is open to a diverse set of backgrounds. In particular, students with a background in human computer interaction, game-theory, networking, or learning are particularly welcomed, but none of these are required background. If you have non-EECS friends that you think would be interested, they are welcome too. This is room-shared as a 194 and 294 pair. Consequently, for those graduate students who would like to do a group project involving an undergrad, this could be a fun way to do that. However, working with undergrads will not be required. -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m