Akanksha Saran

Peter Stone, Professor, University of Texas at Austin, receives the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award Peter Stone, Professor, University of Texas at Austin, receives the ACM - AAAI Allen Newell Award for significant contributions to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence (AI), especially i...

🙌 Meet the 2024 ACM Technical Awards Recipients!

🏆 Peter Stone – ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award
For significant contributions to the theory and practice of artificial intelligence (AI).
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This work was done in collaboration with an amazing cross-disciplinary team at Microsoft!

🔑 We show that estimating offsets as users read/verify what they type can significantly enhance typing efficiency and perceived mental workload. Feedback from stakeholders of the ALS community (who are early adopters of the gaze typing technology) has also been very encouraging for us :)

🔍 Miscalibration of eye trackers is a significant barrier to their use and wider adoption. We propose a simple approach to automatically correct for calibration errors during gaze typing, i.e., typing by fixating your gaze on a visual keyboard.

𝗘𝘆𝗲𝗢: 𝗔𝘂𝘁𝗼𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗯𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗲 𝗢𝘂𝘁𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗲 𝗜𝗻𝗽𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗚𝗮𝘇𝗲 𝗧𝘆𝗽𝗶𝗻𝗴
📌 Program: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
🗓 Poster: Monday, April 28 | 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM JST | North 1F
📄 Paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Hello #CHI2025! 🌸

Excited for my first CHI LBW (albeit remotely)! I'll be sharing work on an eye-tracking prototype I built during my postdoc at MSR, which aims to improve an often frustrating gaze typing experience.

Looking forward to meeting others exploring the ML × HCI space—let’s connect!

The new foundation model from physical intelligence - pi-0.5 - works zero-shot in multiple homes. They tested at airbnbs around san fransisco. I also really love the robot design.

blog: www.physicalintelligence.company/blog/pi05

Turing Award Goes to A.I. Pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.

It’s about time! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...

Turing Award Goes to A.I. Pioneers Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton developed reinforcement learning, a technique vital to chatbots like ChatGPT.

Let's go! Really psyched to have Barto and Sutton win the Turing award for Reinforcement Learning! Their work shaped my career in such profound ways.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t...

Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton are the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton as the recipients of the 2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award for developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning. In a series of papers beginning...

The 2024 Turing Prize winners announced this morning: Barto & Sutton for "developing the conceptual and algorithmic foundations of reinforcement learning". Well deserved. Built on 1959 Donald Michie's idea; matchboxes and colored beads learning tic-tac-toe. awards.acm.org/about/2024-t...