Michael L. Littman

Michael L. Littman
Born	August 30th, 1966 Philadelphia, PA
Residence	U.S.
Nationality	American
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	Rutgers University
Alma mater	Yale University
Doctoral advisor	Leslie P. Kaelbling

Michael L. Littman is a computer scientist. He works mainly in reinforcement learning, but has done work in machine learning, game theory, computer networking, Partially observable Markov decision process solving, computer solving of analogy problems and other areas. He is currently a professor of computer science and department chair at Rutgers University.

Before graduate school, Littman worked with Thomas Landauer at Bellcore and was granted a patent for one of the earliest systems for Cross-language information retrieval. Littman received his Ph.D. in computer science from Brown University in 1996. From 1996 to 1999, he was a professor at Duke University. During his time at Duke, he worked on an automated crossword solver PROVERB, which won an Outstanding Paper Award in 1999 from AAAI and competed in the American Crossword Puzzle Tournament. From 2000 to 2002, he worked at AT&T. Since 2002, he has been a professor at Rutgers University.

References

• Littman, Michael L.; Richard S. Sutton; Satinder Singh (2002). "Predictive Representations of State". Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 14 (NIPS). pp. 1555–1561. http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~baveja/Papers/psr.pdf. 

• Littman, Michael L.; Greg A. Keim; Noam M. Shazeer (1999). "Solving crosswords with PROVERB". Proceedings of the Sixteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). American Association for Artificial Intelligence. pp. 914–915,. http://www.cs.duke.edu/research/AI/PAPERS/1999/aaai99-demo.ps. 

• Kaelbling, Leslie P.; Michael L. Littman; Andrew W. Moore (1996). "Reinforcement Learning: A Survey". Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 4: 237–285. http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/jair/abstracts/kaelbling96a.html. 

• Littman, Michael L. (1994). "Markov Games as a Framework for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning". International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML). pp. 157–163. http://www.cs.rutgers.edu/~mlittman/papers/ml94-final.ps. 

External links

• Michael Littman's Homepage
• Michael Littman's Duke Homepage
• Duke Researchers Pit Computer Against Human Crossword Puzzle Players
• American Scientist - Going Cruciverbalistic
• Humans Beat Poker Bot ... Barely
• Michael Littman's Genealogy
• AAAI Outstanding Paper Awards
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Name	Littman, Michael L.
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Date of birth	1966
Place of birth	Philadelphia, PA
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