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-<​HTML><​table><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2021-01-28</​td><​td>​Matteo Saveriano ​gives an invited talk <i>Making robots to learn from human observation?</i> at <a href="​https://​www.bmeia.gv.at/​en/​austrian-embassy-ottawa/​news/events/detail/​article/​showcasing-young-austrian-scholars-and-scientists-an-original-seven-part-virtual-lectures-ser/​">Showcasing Young Austrian Scholars and Scientists, Austrian cultural forum, Ottawa</​a>, ​online.</td></​tr><​tr valign="top"><​td>​2021-01-14</td><​td>​Matteo Saveriano gives an invited talk <​i>​Hierarchical action decomposition and motion learning for the execution of manipulation tasks</iat <a href="http://​www.gmar.at/​aktuell/​">Hello Tyrol calling! Robotics Talk onlineGMARInnsbruck</a>, online.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2020-11-19</​td><​td>​Justus Piater gives an invited talk <i>Machine ​Learning in Robotics</i> at <a href="​https://​baiome.org/">bAIome PI Talk, Center for +<​HTML><​table><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2022-05-11</​td><​td>​Justus Piater ​gives an invited talk <i>Robots That Learn Like Humans?</i> at <a href="​https://​pintofscience.at/events/innsbruck">Pint of 
-    ​Biomedical AIUniversity Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf</a>, online. <span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem3', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem3Abstract" style="​display:​none">​Machine Learning increasingly equips robots with +    Science</​a>, ​Innsbruck. <span class="​actions"​><a href="javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem0',​ '​Abstract'​)">[Abstract]</a></span><blockquote id="newsitem0Abstract"​ style="​display:none">Wouldn'​t it be great to have a helper robot that we can 
-    ​learning capabilities and flexibility This will enable them to +    task with our annoying chores? How would we teach the robot to 
-    ​act purposefully ​in unstructured environments and to react to +    perform these tasks? Can we build such robots by equipping them 
-    ​unforeseen events. ​ People can teach them intuitively ​to perform +    with artificial intelligence?​ We will discuss how human and 
-    ​tasks instead of having ​to program them in painstaking ways+    machine learning differ and how this impacts what skills, 
-    ​Robots can learn from experience ​and can improve their behavior +    including for communicationour helper robot will be able to 
-    ​over time In this talk I will give an overview of methods, +    learn.</blockquote></​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2022-02-19</​td><​td>​Justus Piater gives an invited talk <​i>​Learning ​as a Creative Process ​in Humans and 
-    ​opportunities,​ and challenges of machine ​learning in +    Machines</i> at <a href="​https://​www.philosophie.uni-konstanz.de/​ag-mueller/​online-workshop-on-agency-life-and-creativity/">Workshop 
-    ​robotics.</​blockquote></​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2020-11-20</​td><​td>​Simon Haller-Seeber and Patrick Lamprecht present ​show <​i>​Explainable AI: A sneak peek into the Black-Box</​i> ​at <a href="​https://​youtube.com/watch?​v=4NVfPwdLnCg&​amp;​t=17m43s">Science Slam</a>, online.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2020-09-30</​td><​td>​Erwan Renaudo contributes a talk <i>ROSSINI: RobOt kidS deSIgn thiNkIng</i> at <a href="​https://​www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030674106">Robotics in  +    ​on “AgencyLife, and Creativity”</a>, online. <span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem1', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem1Abstract" style="​display:​none">​Humans constantly engage in creative activity such as 
-    ​Education 2020</​a>, ​online.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2020-06-22</​td><​td>​Justus Piater ​gives an invited ​talk <i>Conditional Neural Movement Primitives</i> at <a href="​http://​www.gdr-isis.fr/​index.php?​page=reunion&amp;idreunion=424">​GdR +    ​finding explanations,​ improving technology, or solving novel 
-    ISIS Réunion Apprentissage et Robotique</​a>​online. <span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem6', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem6Abstract" style="​display:​none">​Conditional Neural Movement Primitives (CNMP) constitute +    problems in everyday lifeEven imitating other humans, e.g. while 
-    ​a novel framework for robot programming by demonstration based on +    ​learning a new skill, is creative ​in that the imitator has to 
-    Conditional Neural Processes (CNP). ​ Like Bayesian ​methods ​such as +    ​infer the conceptual structure underlying the observed 
-    ​Gaussian Processes (GP), CNP learn how target distributions depend +    manifestation and to regenerate the latter from the former. In 
-    on data, and can be conditioned on specific data points ​to infer +    ​contrast, current AI-enabled agents are unable ​to generate and 
-    new target distributions at test time ​Unlike GP that are +    draw upon such conceptual structuresTheir learning is mostly 
-    ​expensive to train and scale poorly to high dimensions, CNP are +    ​driven by statistics, ​and any ability to produce novelty is 
-    ​neural networks and are trained by gradient descent.  ​CNMP +    ​largely limited to trial and error. I will try to characterize 
-    ​leverage CNP to represent motion trajectories that can be +    ​this fundamental difference between ​learning in human and 
-    conditioned, ​at test time, on task paramters such as goal +    ​artificial agents, and will discuss possible technological 
-    ​locations, via points, ​and/or force readings ​Moreover,​ CNMP are +    approaches that might help close this gap.</​blockquote></​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2021-11-24</​td><​td>​Justus Piater is panelist ​at a public discussion on <a href="​https://​www.linkedin.com/posts/​elsa-innsbruck_letzte-woche-fand-zum-elsa-day-am-24112021-activity-6871397038093869057-16-7">Privacy 
-    ​conditioned on sensor readings during execution, resulting in +    in the Digital Age</a>, online. ​(Organized by ELSA Innsbruck)</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2021-10-22</​td><​td>​Justus Piater gives an invited ​talk <i>Robotik und KI in der Medizin – nur 
-    robust, reactive behavior. ​ This talk will present ​an overview ​of +    Bedarfserweckung?​</i> at <a href="​https://​medical-update-hall.com/veranstaltungen/">Medical 
-    ​how CNMP work and how they can be used in various robot +    ​Update Hall 2021 – Fit für das neue Jahrzehnt</​a>, ​UMIT, Hall in Tirol.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2021-08-26</​td><​td>​Justus Piater ​contributes a talk <i>Digital Science at the University of Innsbruck</i> at Aurora Research Conference Digital Society ​&​amp; ​Global CitizenshipVrije Universiteit Amsterdam. <span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem4', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem4Abstract" style="​display:​none">​Growing data processing capacities and progress in 
-    ​applications.</​blockquote></​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2020-06-03</​td><​td>​Justus Piater ​appears in the mediaWie der Roboter denken lernt.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2020-01-29</​td><​td>​Justus Piater ​gives an invited talk <i>Digital Science</i> at <a href="​https://​www.graduateacademy.uni-heidelberg.de/karriere/veranstaltungsreihen.html">Vortragsreihe +    ​analytical ​methods ​and artificial intelligence are motivating 
-    ​„Primers for Predocs – Strategien für eine erfolgreiche +    ​entire branches of science to raise new questions ​and to develop 
-    Promotion“</​a>, ​Universität Heidelberg. <span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem9', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem9Abstract" style="​display:​none">​Massive availability ​of data and computing power are +    new approachesThis digital transformation requires progressive,​ 
-    ​promoting data-driven methods ​in all areas of science ​and +    ​interdisciplinary synergies between the computational sciences ​and 
-    ​technology.  I will describe how the University ​of Innsbruck +    ​all other scientific disciplines.  ​The Digital Science Center 
-    ​supports this via its new Digital Science Center, and will give a +    ​(DiSC) ​at the University of Innsbruck meets this challenge by 
-    ​flavor of machine learning for data analysis.</​blockquote></​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2020-01-20</​td><​td>​Joanna Chimiak-Opoka,​ Carina König, and Justus Piater appear in the media: ​<a href="​https://​www.uibk.ac.at/newsroom/ergaenzung-digital-science-erfolgreich-gestartet.html.de">​Ergänzung Digital Science erfolgreich gestartet – UIBK Newsroom<​/a>.</td></tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2020-01-03</td><​td>​Justus Piater gives an invited talk <​i>​Künstliche Intelligenz:​ GrundlagenErfolge, +    ​integrating ​and promoting digitalisation of scientific research
-    Herausforderungen</iat 47. Tagung des Innsbrucker Kreises von MoraltheologInnen +    ​In this talk will present ​some examples ​of interdisciplinary 
-    und SozialethikerInnenInnsbruck.</​td></​tr></​table></​HTML>​+    ​research by DiSC staff researchers who are experts ​in specific 
 +    ​aspects of digital science.</​blockquote></​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2021-08-24</​td><​td>​Justus Piater ​contributes a lecture <​i>​Picking and Placing</​i>​ at <a href="​https://​www.uibk.ac.at/​informatik/​forschung/​gmar-robotics-school-2021.html">​2021 GMAR Summer School</​a>,​ Villa Blanka, Innsbruck.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2021-07-01</​td><​td>​Justus Piater ​and Matteo Saveriano give an invited talk <i>Making Robots Learn to Perceive and Act with Understanding</i> at <a href="​https://​webservices.scientificnet.org/​rest/​entries/​api/​v1/​blobs/​200894">​Workshop 
 +    and Open Lab on Field Robotics ​Interdisciplinary aspects of 
 +    robotics and its applications in outdoor scenarios</​a>,​ NOI Techpark, Bolzano, Italy.</td></tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2021-05-26</​td><​td>​Justus Piater contributes a talk <​i>​Intelligente und interaktive Systeme</​i>​ at <a href="​http://​www.gmar.at/​aktuell/​">GMAR Robotics Science 
 +    ​Talks</​a>, ​online.</​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2021-03-24</​td><​td>​Justus Piater gives an invited lecture <​i>​Machine Learning, Perception, And Abstract Concepts</​i>​ at Invited lecture at Ontario Tech U, Canada, online. <span class="​actions"><​a href="​javascript:​void(0)"​ onclick="​showHide('​newsitem8', '​Abstract'​)">​[Abstract]</​a></​span><​blockquote id="newsitem8Abstract" style="​display:​none">​With every spectacular achievement ​of a machine learning 
 +    ​system, the long-elusive AI breakthrough is popularly proclaimed 
 +    to be just around the corner. ​ Most recent successes have been due 
 +    ​in large part to massive data and computation,​ in particular using 
 +    ​deep artificial neural networks But can artificial cognition 
 +    really be achieved just by further scaling up existing 
 +    machine-learning techniques? ​ ​I ​discuss examples ​of simple, 
 +    ​perceptual problems that are easily solved by humans but very 
 +    ​difficult for today'​s ​machine learning ​methods. ​ These problems 
 +    reflect how humans conceptualize their world. ​ Their mastery is 
 +    thus likely to be an essential prerequisite ​for autonomous robots 
 +    to attain higher levels of cognitive abilities. ​ To get there, a 
 +    few core issues can be identified that should drive research in 
 +    cognitive robotics.</​blockquote></​td></​tr><​tr valign="​top"><​td>​2021-01-28</​td><​td>​Matteo Saveriano gives an invited talk <​i>​Making robots to learn from human observation?</​i>​ at <a href="​https://​www.bmeia.gv.at/en/austrian-embassy-ottawa/news/events/detail/​article/​showcasing-young-austrian-scholars-and-scientists-an-original-seven-part-virtual-lectures-ser/">Showcasing Young Austrian Scholars and ScientistsAustrian cultural forumOttawa</a>, online.</​td></​tr></​table></​HTML>​
  
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