Henry A. Kautz
Professor Henry A. Kautz
recently retired after more than 15 years at the
University of Rochester. To celebrate Henry's
distinguished career, the Computer Science Department, the
Goergen Institute for Data Science, and the Hajim School
of Engineering are jointly hosting a set of accessible,
enjoyable talks on Artificial intelligence, highlighting
the higher-level aspects of machine cognition, in keeping
with the tenor of Henry's many years of groundbreaking
research on practical algorithms for solving worst-case
intractable problems in logical and probabilistic
reasoning, automated planning, models for inferring human
behavior from sensor data, pervasive healthcare
applications of AI, and social media analytics. The talks
are all open to the public, with free
registration up to a capacity limit, either
in-person or via Zoom.
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The schedule for
the day is as follows:
* indicates prerecorded video messages
- 10:00 -
10:30 Opening remarks
- Michael
Scott, Arthur Gould Yates Professor of
Engineering, Chair of the Department of Computer
Science, University of Rochester
- Mujdat
Cetin, Robin and Tim Wentworth
Director of the Goergen Institute for Data Science,
University of Rochester
- 10:30 -
12:00 Session 1
- Jeffrey Bigham, Associate Professor of CMU and Research Lead of Apple Human-Centered Machine Intelligence
- Jiebo
Luo, Albert Arendt Hopeman Professor of
Engineering, University of Rochester
- Ron Brachman*, Professor of Computer Science, Director of the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute, Cornell University
- Daniel
Weld, General Manager & Chief Scientist of Semantic Scholar, Allen Institute of Artificial Intelligence
- 12:00 -
2:00 Catered lunch on campus
- 2:00 -
3:30 Session 2
- Vince
Silenzio, Professor in the Departments of Urban-Global Public Health, Family Medicine and Community Health, Rutgers University
- Dieter
Fox, Professor in the Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Washington
- Bart
Selman, Professor of
Computer Science, Cornell University
- Oren
Etzioni*, Advisor and
board member, AI2
- Eric Horvitz*, Chief Scientific Officer, Microsoft
- 3:30 - 4:00
Break
- 4:00 -
4:30 Session 3
- Ehsan Hoque, Associate professor of Computer Science, University of Rochester
- Ann Marie White, Director of the Office of Mental Health Promotion (OMHP), University of Rochester Medical Center
- Yi
Chu
- Anis
Zaman
- 4:30 -
5:00
Concluding Remarks (Henry Kautz)
- 5:00
Photos and gifts
Registration for the
talks and attendance is free, but is required.
To register, please simply click on this registration
link and on the form let us know that you will be
attending in-person or attending remotely, and include your name,
affiliation (if any, e.g., UR-CS UG student, or RIT CS faculty, or
Google Mountain View), and email.
(Notes: (a) As a general matter and as a courtesy to the planning,
please, please do register by May 10th. However... if you
did not register, but as May 20th arrives you wish to attend these
talks, of course do register late and join the sessions. (b) The
henryfest "at" lists "dot" rochester "dot" edu email address goes to the
HenryFest organizers.)
Lunch will be provided for all registered participants.
Henry Kautz,
Professor, Retires after 15 Years with URCS
Henry Kautz joined the Computer Science Department at Rochester in
2007, after spending 7 years as a faculty member at the University
of Washington, Seattle. He served as the CS Department Chair from
2008 through 2015. From 2018 to 2022 he served as Division
Director for Information
& Intelligent Systems (IIS) at the National Science
Foundation, where he led the National
AI Research Institutes program. He was a Professor in the Department
of Computer Science and was the founding director
(2014-2018) of the Goergen Institute for
Data Science at the University of Rochester. He
has been a researcher at AT&T Bell Labs in Murray Hill, NJ,
and a full professor at the University of Washington,
Seattle. In 2010, he was elected President of the Association
for Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), and in
2016 was elected Chair of the American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Section on Information,
Computing, and Communication. His interdisciplinary research
includes practical algorithms for solving worst-case intractable
problems in logical and probabilistic reasoning; automated
planning; models for inferring human behavior from sensor data;
pervasive healthcare applications of AI; and social media
analytics. In 1989 he received the IJCAI Computers &
Thought Award, which recognizes outstanding young scientists
in artificial intelligence, and 30 years later received the 2018 ACM-AAAI
Allen Newell Award for career contributions that have
breadth within computer science and that bridge computer science
and other disciplines. At the 2020 AAAI Conference, he received
both the Distinguished
Service Award and the Robert S. Engelmore
Memorial Lecture Award. In 2022 he received the Most
Impactful Paper Award from the ACM Intelligent User
Interfaces Conference.
Kautz is an internationally renowned expert in artificial
intelligence, pervasive computing, and health care applications,
and his research has been cited more than 34,000 times (h-index is
currently 79) according to Google Scholar. He is a Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Association for
Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), for which he has
also served as president.
In his retirement, Henry Kautz is Senior Advisor to the Schmidt Futures foundations for programs to help support open data for use in scientific applications of AI.
The room for the
four talks of HenryFest will be
Wegmans Hall, Room 1400. That room is the large auditorium
partially on and partially below the ground floor of Wegmans
Hall,
which has been the new home of the CS department since 2017.
This is the the
UR River Campus Map.
You can see Wegmans Hall's location on it; it is near the lower
part of the core campus, just north of the Hajim Science &
Engineering Quadrangle.
The university
and the (see the Lodging section below) suggested hotel are each
about a 10-minute drive from the airport (whose airport code is
ROC).
Rochester also has
train service (Amtrak) and bus service (Greyhound), which each
drop you near downtown, about a 15-minute taxi ride to the
university and the suggested hotel.
Information
on visitor parking at River Campus of University of Rochester
What you should
do is drive up to the visitor's information booth. The Visitor
Info booth is just north of Elmwood Avenue and Trustee Rd., on
Wilson Blvd.; it is marked on the River Campus map (see the
earlier link).
If the booth is
staffed (from 7:30am to 7:00pm weekdays), buy a one-day guest
permit for $6 and obtain a campus map, and park in whatever lot
the agent directs you to park in. (Allow for several minutes'
walk from whatever lot you're directed to to Wegmans Hall.)
After hours and on weekends there is no charge.
If the booth is
not staffed, then the right thing to do is to drive about ten
feet past the booth, U-turn, then turn left on Trustee Road, and
then turn right on Intercampus Drive and then park in any space
not specially marked as Handicapped/Reserved/Etc. in the Zone 2
South lots ("Bridge Lot" and the north end of Park Lot) or the
Zone 3 South Lot (all of Park Lot except its north end).
In case you arrive
early or leave late, here are some pointers to fun things to do in
Rochester:
As our own advice,
the George Eastman House/Museum
is probably the top attraction of Rochester. But there are many
other great things to see: the Strong National Museum of Play
(esp. for kids), the Seneca Park Zoo (esp. for kids), the
Memorial Art Gallery (a very nice fine
art museum), the Rochester Public Market (a large street
market),
the Lake Ontario shore (e.g., walking in Durand Eastman Park),
and much more. The TripAdvisor.com link in the list above
provides links to each of these along with reviews and
information.
Please don't hesitate
to contact us if you have any questions; you can
email the entire set of organizers by sending an email to the
user-id
"henryfest" in the domain "lists.rochester.edu".
Professor Jiebo
Luo, University of Rochester
Professor Ehsan Hoque,
University of Rochester
Webmaster: Hanjia
Lyu, University of Rochester