Richard S. Sutton
Professor and iCORE chair
Department of Computing Science
University of Alberta
2-21 Athabasca Hall
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada T6G 2E8
office 3-13 Athabasca Hall 780-492-4584
cell 780-270-8139 fax 780-492-1111
email sutton@cs.ualberta.ca
or rich@richsutton.com
ichat/aol
name
rssutton@me.com (do not use this for an email address)
I am seeking to identify general
computational
principles underlying what
we mean by intelligence and goal-directed behavior. I start with the
interaction between the intelligent agent and its environment.
Goals, choices, and
sources of information are all defined in terms of this interaction. In
some sense it is the
only thing that is real, and from it all our sense of the world is
created. How is this done? How can interaction lead to better behavior,
better perception, better models of the world? What
are the computational issues in doing this efficiently and in realtime?
These are the sort of
questions that I ask in trying to understand what it means to be
intelligent, to predict and
influence the world, to learn, perceive, act, and think.
