Learning provides a useful tool for the automatic design of autonomous robots. Recent research on learning robot control has predominantly focussed on learning single tasks that were studied in isolation. If robots encounter a multitude of control learning tasks over their entire lifetime, however, there is an opportunity to transfer knowledge between them. In order to do so, robots may learn t...

This paper investigates learning in a lifelong context. Lifelong learning addresses situations in which a learner faces a whole stream of learning tasks. Such scenarios provide the opportunity to transfer knowledge across multiple learning tasks, in order to generalize more accurately from less training data. In this paper, several different approaches to lifelong learning are described, and ap...

INTRODUCTION Lifelong learning is an integral part of health professionals' maintenance of competence. Several studies have examined the orientation toward lifelong learning at various stages of the education and career continuum; however, none has looked at changes throughout training and practice. The objective of the present study was to determine if there are differences between groups defi...

Sebastian B. Thrun 2 University of Bonn Institut für Informatik III Römerstr. 164, 53117 Bonn, Germany E-mail: [email protected] Tom M. Mitchell School of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213, U.S.A. E-mail: [email protected] Abstract— Learning provides a useful tool for the automatic design of autonomous robots. Recent research on learning robot control has pre...

Previous research on the personalized museum experience has largely focused on the single visit. New and emerging mobile technologies are enablers for a longer term view, where the personalization spans multiple visits to museums and links them to other aspects of the user's life. There is a large body of research about the importance of this form of personalization. This paper reviews key lite...

The term ‘lifelong’, as applied to education or learning, has been in circulation for more than a quarter of a century. It has played an important role in policy discussions, as well as in studies of the sociology and economics of education. The relationship of this term to the rapidly changing world of information and educational technologies, and to the various conceptions of interaction that...

In this paper, we propose to measure the intelligence of an agent by measuring how fast its knowledge level increases after learning related tasks. In this paper, we propose a new Lifelong Machine Learning Test. An agent can pass the test if it can learn unrestricted number of tasks over time and its knowledge level can increase when new tasks are learned. In the proposed test, both an agent’s ...

In kindergartens and early-elementary classrooms, manipulative materials (such as Cuisenaire Rods and Pattern Blocks) play an important role in children’s learning, enabling children to explore mathematical and scientific concepts (such as number, shape, and size) through direct manipulation of physical objects. But as children grow older, and learn more advanced concepts, the educational focus...

The focus of this short article is on the interim evaluation of Lifelong Learning Networks (LLNs) that the Centre for Higher Education Research and Information of the Open University was commissioned to undertake by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) during 2007 (HEFCE, 2008). It is not the intention to go into the detail of that evaluation, but instead to do two main thin...