This is an informal discussion group, meeting in CSIRO ICT Centre (Schottky room), Marsfield.  The following is a schedule for the new series on Machine Learning topics.  Date  Title  Presenter  Affiliation  6 June 2012 Large-scale Multi-task Machine Learning via Gaussian Processes Dr. Arman Melkumyan Australian Centre for Field Robotics, University of Sydney 16 July 2012 Real-Time Inverse Dynamics Learning for Musculoskeletal Robots based on Echo State Gaussian Process Regression Dr. Christoph Hartmann Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Osnabrueck, Germany TBA 2012 Identification of Directed Influence: Granger Causality, Kullback-Leibler Divergence, and Complexity Dr. Karim Seghouane NICTA, Canberra                   Past discussions within our discussion group on "Entropy and Self-organisation" ranged over a number of topics: A series on neural computation A series on adaptive systems A series on applications  A series on Artificial Life  (4 selected papers from ALife X: The 10th International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, 2006) A series on Measures of Complexity  (10 selected papers from 1983-2005) Entropy, Extropy, Cellular Automata, Chaos Self-Assembly, Amorphous Computing, Artificial Life Self-referentiality, Gödel's Theorem Ant Colony Optimisation Sensor Networks, Small Worlds, Scale-free Networks . . . You are welcome to join  . . .