December 2016 - Planning-inf - mailman.kcl.ac.uk

Planning group dinner
by Andrew Coles 12 Dec '16

12 Dec '16

Hi all, The planning group Christmas dinner is booked for Monday the 12th of December, the date most people could make in the Doodle poll. Thanks to Liana for organising this. The table is booked for 6pm (we had few options of times or venues -- next year we should book in October...) and will be at: Bill’s Restaurant Covent Garden 13 Slingsby Place, St Martins Courtyard (Off Long Acre) London WC2E 9AB I will contact you nearer the time with the menu -- we need to order food a couple of days in advance. Cheers, Andrew -- Dr Andrew Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics, King's College London Room: S6.14, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 1511

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Planning group Christmas dinner
by Andrew Coles 10 Dec '16

10 Dec '16

Hi all, The restaurant for the group dinner on Monday has contacted me to request our selections from the menu by tomorrow. Please complete the following Google form, by 4pm, and I'll email them the details: https://goo.gl/forms/UTbARak6xY95rWQ32 The dinner and Christmas menus are at: https://d1k0w6lyhojuj5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/24103007/L… https://d1k0w6lyhojuj5.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/24095618/B… Thanks, Andrew -- Dr Andrew Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics, King's College London Room: S6.14, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 1511

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Planning group Christmas dinner
by Andrew Coles 09 Dec '16

09 Dec '16

Hi all, The restaurant for the group dinner on Monday has contacted me to request our selections from the menu by tomorrow. The dinner and winter specials menus are attached. Please complete the following Google form, by 4pm, and I'll email them the details: https://goo.gl/forms/UTbARak6xY95rWQ32 Thanks, Andrew -- Dr Andrew Coles Lecturer Department of Informatics, King's College London Room: S6.14, Tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 1511

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Skating at Somerset House
by Marinescu, Liana 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Hi everybody, Let's go skating next week! http://doodle.com/poll/zfbszq6zg4vaz8bs We've got a research group activity fund, and skating is just the sort of thing we can use it for :). All welcome! Cheerios, Liana

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Next planning meeting
by Magazzeni, Daniele 05 Dec '16

05 Dec '16

Hi all, I'd like to propose an experiment for the next planning meeting (Wednesday Dec 7th) : let's work together on a grant proposal! The idea of the project is the one that came out last week, i.e., to have a service, like Google Maps, that takes into account initial and final position of each vehicle and then send different route recommendations to different groups of drivers, in order to balance (and then reduce) the traffic. At the moment, instead, Google maps send the route recommendation to each driver as if he/she was the only driver taking that route. Working on a grant proposal means to think at the following items: -Project background: the current services, and the disciplines involved in the project (Planning of course! :) -Project goals: what are the contributions of the project? -How the project will achieve its goals: what are the different steps of the project (problem specification, data collection, planning algorithms, etc.) -Project impact: why would this be an important project? Why should the project be funded? -National Importance: why is this project important for the UK? (the grant will likely be submitted to EPSRC, so it's important to state the relevance of this project for the UK) I'd like to ask you to think about these items and come to the meeting with some ideas. We'll then brainstorm on each item for 10 minutes. I think it's also a good exercise for each one of us, as grant writing is something that we will all have to do if we want to work in the academia!! Best, Dan -- Dr Daniele Magazzeni Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence, King's College London Head, AI Planning Group Editor-in-Chief, AI Communications http://www.inf.kcl.ac.uk/staff/danmag

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