The 17th International Conference on Algorithmic Learning Theory

AND

The 9th International Conference on Discovery Science

Barcelona, Spain October 7 - 10, 2006

INVITED SPEAKERS FOR ALT 2006 AND DS 2006

Gunnar Rätsch (Friedrich Miescher Labor, Max Planck Gesellschaft, Tübingen, Germany) Title: The Solution of Semi-Infinite Linear Programs using Boosting-like methods Abstract, and Slides.	Carole Goble (The University of Manchester, Manchester, U.K.) Title: Putting Semantics into e-Science and the Grid Abstract.
Hans Ulrich Simon (Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany) Title: The Usage of the Spectral Norm in Learning Theory: Some Selected Topics Abstract and Slides.	Padhraic Smyth (University of California, Irvine, U.S.A.) Title: Data-Driven Discovery using Probabilistic Hidden Variable Models Abstract.

and Andrew Ng (Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A.) Title: Reinforcement Learning and Apprenticeship Learning for Robotic Control

Abstract.