Stanford Seminar - Stories from CoCoLab: Probabilistic Programs, Cognitive Modeling, & Smart Web Pages

This seminar series features dynamic professionals sharing their industry experience and cutting edge research within the human-computer interaction (HCI) field. Each week, a unique collection of technologists, artists, designers, and activists will discuss a wide range of current and evolving topics pertaining to HCI.

Syllabus

Introduction.
How does thinking work?.
Probabilistic Models.
Probabilistic programs.
Reference games.
Recursive reasoning.
Language understanding.
Hyperbole experiment.
Optimal experiment design Models.
Bayesian framework for OED.
OED system.
Ex: Category learning.
Models of categorization.
Classic experiment.
Distribution of experiments.
Experiment designs.
Information gain.
Smart pages.
Ex: Link ranking.