UCLA IS Associates 2019 Winter CIO Exchange Dinner

Topic: "Self Driving Cars - What's Around the Corner?"

We are pleased to announce that Professor Richard Korf, will be on hand to present and lead an interactive dinner discussion on the field of self-driving cars, their potential benefits to individuals and society, the current state of the art, the prospects for the future, and some potential roadblocks to their mainstream adoption.

Although Rich’s presentation will focus largely on the socio-economic implications of autonomous vehicles, there will be ample opportunity to drill-down on both the technical and business imperatives that underscore their adoption.”

About Professor Korf

Richard Korf is a Professor of computer science at the UCLA School of Engineering. He received his B.S. from M.I.T. in 1977, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1980 and 1983, respectively, all in computer science. From 1983 to 1985, he served as Herbert M. Singer Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Columbia University. His research is in the areas of problem-solving, heuristic search, and planning in artificial intelligence. He is the author of "Learning to Solve Problems by Searching for Macro-Operators" (Pitman, 1985). He serves on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence, and the Journal of Applied Intelligence. Dr. Korf is the recipient of a 1985 IBM Faculty Development Award, a 1986 NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, the first UCLA Computer Science Department Distinguished Teaching Award in 1989, the first UCLA School of Engineering Student's Choice Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1996, and the Lockheed Martin Excellence in Teaching Award in 2005. He is a Fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence