marcus hutter vlzhxyidsiach phd postdoc position available idsia switzerland seeking one outstanding postdoc phd student excellent mathematical skills interested reinforcement learning algorithmic information theory kolmogorov complexity minimal description length mdl information theory statistics bayesian online sequence prediction prediction action expert advice computational complexity theory universal solomonoff induction universal levin search sequential decision theory adaptive control theory andor related areas possible backgrounds computer science physics mathematics etc initial appointment 2 years normally prolongation new phd studentpostdoc interact marcus hutter juergen schmidhuber people idsia see httpwwwidsiachmarcusidsiaphdposhtm information phd position httpwwwidsiachmarcusidsiapostdochtm information postdoc position applicants submit detailed curriculum vitae including grades ii list three references email addresses iii concise statement research interests 12 pages iv links thesis andor publications please send documents till end january 2005 marcus hutter idsia galleria 2 6928 manno lugano switzerland applications also submitted email vlzhxyidsiach 1mb max www pointers pspdfdochtml files welcome use firstnamelastnamedocdescriptiondoctype filename convention thanks interest marcus hutter senior researcher idsia istituto dalle molle di studi sullintelligenza artificiale galleria 2 ch6928 mannolugano switzerland phone 41916108668 fax 41916108661 email vlzhxyidsiach httpwwwidsiachmarcus idsia research focuses artificial neural nets reinforcement learning complexity generalization issues unsupervised learning information theory forecasting artificial ants combinatorial optimization evolutionary computation idsia small visible competitive influential idsias algorithms hold world records several important operations research benchmarks see nature 40667913942 overview artificial ant algorithms developed idsia xlab survey business week magazine idsia ranked fourth place category computer science biologically inspired santa fe institute stanford university epfl also switzerland comparatively tiny size notwithstanding idsia also ranked among top ten labs worldwide broader category artificial intelligence idsia located near beautiful city lugano ticino pictures scenic southernmost province switzerland origin special relativity www milano italys center fashion finance 1 hour away venice 3 hours collaborators cscs swiss supercomputing center right beneath us also affiliated university lugano supsi switzerland boasts highest citation impact factor highest supercomputing capacity pc per capita nobel prizes pc 450 us value perhaps best chocolate tue 05 aug 2008 195729 0800 uai phdpostdoc position available