The sessions will run from 9am PST to 12pm PST on December 7-8, 2021. All times below are in PST (Los Angeles time). Links to attend the sessions will be emailed privately after registration.
Tuesday December 7, 2021
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| 9:00 | 9:15 | Welcome and Opening Remarks | |
| Yannis Yortsos Dean of the Viterbi School of Engineering; Zohrab A. Kaprielian Dean’s Chair in Engineering and Chester Dolley Professor of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering |
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| Craig Knoblock Keston Executive Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering; Vice Dean of Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Professor of Spatial Sciences, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
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| 9:15 | 10:00 | Session I: Commonsense Reasoning | |
| Session chair: Shri Narayanan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Professor of Linguistics, Psychology and Neuroscience, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences; Professor of Pediatrics, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Keck School of Medicine; Research Director, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Open-World Agents Filip Ilievski Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Predicting Events Manuel Ciosici Postdoctoral Researcher, Information Sciences Institute, Viterby School of Engineering |
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| Visual Grounding Ram Nevatia Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Explaining with Common Sense Xiang Ren Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Lead, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| 10:00 | 10:15 | Break | |
| 10:15 | 11:00 | Session II: Commonsense Knowledge | |
| Session chair: Keith Burghardt Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Dimensions of Common Sense Pedro Szekely Research Associate Professor of Computer Science; Principal Scientist and Director of the AI Division, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Learning Common Sense Marjorie Freedman Research Team Lead, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Robust Knowledge Acquisition Muhao Chen Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Crowdsourcing Common Sense Yolanda Gil Senior Director, Information Sciences Institute; Director, Data Science Programs, Computer Science Department; Research Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Professor of Spatial Sciences, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
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| 11:00 | 11:15 | Break | |
| 11:15 | 12:00 | Invited Talk: Models of core common sense in infancy Tomer Ullman Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Harvard University |
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Wednesday December 8, 2021
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| 9:00 | 9:45 | Session III: Common Sense for Creativity | |
| Session chair: Kallirroi Georgila Research Associate Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Lead, Institute for Creative Technologies, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Generating New Ideas Mayank Kejriwal Research Assistant Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering; Research Team Lead, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Biases in Common Sense Fred Morstatter Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Explaining Stories and Dialogues Jay Pujara Director of the Center on Knowledge Graphs, Information Sciences Institute; Research Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Negotiating Agents Emmanuel Johnson Postdoctoral Research Associate, Information Science Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| 9:45 | 10:00 | Break | |
| 10:00 | 10:45 | Session IV: Common Sense in AI Agents and Robots | |
| Session chair: Sven Koenig Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Modeling Emotions Jon Gratch Research Professor of Computer Science; Director for Virtual Humans Research, Institute for Creative Technologies, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Self-Diagnosis of Robot Failures Stefanos Nikolaidis Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Trust and Deception in Robots Maja Mataric Chan Soon-Shiong Distinguished Professor of Computer Science, Neuroscience, and Pediatrics, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| User-Centric Explainable AI Michael Pazzani Principal Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| 10:45 | 11:00 | Break | |
| 11:00 | 11:45 | Panel: Common Sense and Artificial General Intelligence Moderator: Mayank Kejriwal |
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| Catherine Havasi CEO, Luminoso |
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| Kenneth Forbus Professor of Computer Science and Education, Northwestern University |
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| Vered Schwartz Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia |
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| 11:45 | 12:00 | Closing Remarks | |
| Filip Ilievski Research Scientist, Information Sciences Institute, Viterbi School of Engineering |
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| Yolanda Gil Senior Director, Information Sciences Institute; Director, Data Science Programs, Computer Science Department; Research Professor of Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering; Research Professor of Spatial Sciences, Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
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