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It was a very very long journey, about 27 hours, to get from Dulles to Joao Pessoa.  I made the trip with David Freelan and Stephen Arnold.  We went from Dulles to Miami in 3hr and then had a 5hr layover there.  Then we had about an 8hr red eye flight to Rio De Janeiro.… Continue reading The Flight to Joao Pessoa

This would be awesome!  GMU has multiple campuses and it is a state school.  So, it would be awesome if GMU could be funded to create a smart grid for their campuses.  So, I would be able to do live experiments rather than just simulating.  Well probably I would have to do a lot of… Continue reading GMU’s Multicampus Smartgrid

So the idea is that we have these beacons.  They have a broadcast radius.  In that radius they state what they want to have done to them, ie moved to location (x,y).  Then as robots explore the environment they discover tasks.  they can decide to take on the task or remember it and then continue… Continue reading more ideas

I found a Peter Stone paper that address part of my idea on adaptive auctions and mechanism design.  However, they only took it part of the way.  They only looked at adapting the parameters of single type of auction.  Rather my idea was that not only would that happen but also the type of auction… Continue reading Adaptive Mechanism Design

http://www.google.co.uk/patents/US8468209 patent on “Method of rescinding previously transmitted e-mail messages”!  Is this something that should be allowed to be patented?  Doesn’t google have a labs feature that does this?

http://freelanmachinelearning.blogspot.com/   David Freelan’s blog has some ML thoughts

I’ll write about this then… Well I published that above on Feb 21 2014 and now its May 19 2014!  I am just now taking the time to right about how things went.  It was a busy semester.  So, I’ll just go right into it. So, as part of CS 880 (Multi-Robotics) we volunteered at… Continue reading Kramer Middle School Botball

MRL = Multirobot Learning A quote from Multiagent Learning in Large Anonymous Games (Kash, Ian A et al.) “With more learners, the noise introduced into pay- offs by exploration and mistakes becomes more consistent. Second, having more information typically improves performance. Publicly available statistics about the observed behavior of agents can allow an agent to learn… Continue reading Some thoughts on MRL

We had freezing rain in Fairfax overnight and this morning and the ice expanded the seam of two panels on the back drivers side of my car which cracked the bottom panel! https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1VRNvbyjAiI8JXjfe7sgV21VzoN2LI3OiBFmPuZRzE-g/edit?usp=sharing — for pic red box is where it happened.  Ugh…  

https://app.box.com/s/fi1c3wccxjrwtan9hq69 is a very interesting article I’ll write a bit about it later.   http://www.math.hawaii.edu/~dale/godel/godel.html descriptions of a couple paradoxes and theorems important to computer science and mathematics.