CONFERENCE CIRCUIT: ACRL in Chicago

Summer Meeting at Chicago Conference Reports Conference on Algebra and Twenty-third Colloquium

The Conference on Algebra at the 1941 Summer Meeting of the Society in Chicago was held in three sessions. The first dealt with abstract algebra, especially with lattice theory, and the lectures were given by Professors John von Neumann and Garrett Birkhoff. The session was preceded by the first Colloquium Lecture of Professor Oystein Ore on the allied topic of Mathematical Relations and Struct...

16-899C ACRL Tetris Reinforcement Learner

Our approach to this problem was to use reinforcement learning with a function approximator to approximate the state value function [RSS98]. In our case, a +1 reward was given for every completed line, so that the value function would encode the long-term number of lines that is going to be completed by the algorithm. In order to achieve this, we extract features from the game state, and use gr...

Interprofessional Education Conference: Grounding Action in Theory

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Hermann Hall Conference Center 3300 S Federal St . Chicago , IL 60616

Multicentered Chicago

GROWTH OF THE METROPOLITAN AREA (MAP) E N T R I E S M Multicentered Chicago Next Chicagoans like to think of their home as “multiethnic,” or as “the city of neighborhoods.” Indeed, the celebration of neighborhood is one of the binding rituals of Chicago culture. The shelves of local bookstores are crammed with neighborhood guides of various sorts, and in the 1990s Mayor Richard M. Daley harness...