2024 ACM A.M. Turing Award

ACM A.M. Turing Award Honors Two Researchers Who Led the Development of Cornerstone AI Technology: Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton Recognized as Pioneers of Reinforcement Learning, New York, NY, March 5, 2025

Some information and papers related to the seminar

(3/5/2025) 莊愛玲資深經理與陳怡伶資深經理 

• 3-Minute Explanation, Hungry Lions And Lamb Puzzle - Game Theory
• Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, 1989. 
• Habit 2: "Begin with the end in mind."
• 與成功有約：以終為始 → 釐清人生定位
• Begin with the end in mind: Dynamic programming. The algorithm is the foundation of reinforcement learning. When it combines with neural network as an approximation function, it is deep reinforcement learning. The Turing Award goes to 2 researchers in reinforcement learning this year!
• The company used machine learning models, e.g., ARIMA and random forest, to predict the sales. My lab is trying to use new methodologies to improve their prediction accuracy, e.g., Ensemble Modeling.
• WISE-IoT 創新論壇 - 生成式 AI 賦能工廠智動化，研華AIoT共創園區

上課內容 (Teaching)

許志華，中原大學，電機資訊學院，工業與系統工程學系

• 2025 春 (Spring)
• 作業研究 (下)，工業三丙
• 登記，課前預習和每週進度
• 助教：朱旻為 (Willy) (email: homework7915 at Gmail)
• 辦公室時間：莊敬 302，辦公室時間 (二)  1 - 2 pm
• 機器學習 (machine learning)，工業碩一 (graduate students)
• class participation，weekly schedule
• TA 朱品穎 (Pollie) (email: a0973634180 at Gmail)
• Office Hour: ISE 302, (三)  1 - 2 pm
• 書報討論 (Seminar)，碩博班 (graduate students) 
• 助教趙振宇 (Jeff) (email: zz2347605 at Gmail)
• Some information and papers related to the seminar
• 課程組員互評表 (Evaluation form for team members)
• Deadline: the day for the last class meeting time
• Default: If no one answers, everyone will get the same score for project participation.  If only 1 person fills in the form, we will use that as the group score for project participation.
• The best way to contact me (email):  chhsu135 AT gmail DOT com (主旨：修課名稱和班級，學號，姓名) (Subject: Class, student ID, Name)

Business Analytics Laboratory (商業分析實驗室)

If you are interested in operations research, machine learning, data science, and its real-world applications (in supply chain, business, smart manufacturing, etc.), please email me your resume and transcript to schedule a meeting or online chat. Please refer to this blog for more details about your resume. (Guides for students,  paper presentation in the group meeting, meeting schedule)

2024 Franz Edelman Award

2024 Edelman Competition (video, special issue, INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics)

Pierre Pinson, Mikkel Bjørn, Simon Kristiansen, Claus B. Nielsen, Lasse Janerka, Jesper Skovgaard, Kristian Durhuus (2025) Data-Driven at Sea: Forecasting and Revenue Management at Molslinjen. INFORMS Journal on Applied Analytics 55(1):5-21. https://doi.org/10.1287/inte.2024.0177 (2024 Franz Edelman Award Winner) (Keywords: ferry operations, demand forecasting, revenue management, machine learning  (by XGBoost))

中原隨筆 (My days at CYCU)

在台南住了20幾年，因為種種因素，來到中原大學任教。懷念台南的好天氣、上下班不太塞車、和美食。秉持共好的精神，紀錄我在中原的所見所聞。

• 商業分析實驗室 (Business Analytics Laboratory)：指引 (Guides)，論文報告 (Group meeting)
• 翻轉教室 (Flipped classroom)
• Feel stressed (壓力山大) about your graduate studies?，快樂和健康地活著，壓力管理
• 工業系必修 (應用和產業知識)：微積分 (計算螺絲的體積)，機率與統計，電路和電子學，線性代數，作業研究 (含最佳化)，學習數學的四個層次，首頁右側的標籤有更多的資訊
• 作業研究：期末報告，到高中的介紹 (提問)，最差和最佳的應用場景，進一步的資訊
• Some books and information on machine learning and AI
• 學習：學習動力與方向 (1, 2)，態度與方法，聽不懂演講時怎麼辦，上台報告的方法與建議，專題和論文的製作與報告 (tips for the final project and your thesis)，國科會大專學生研究計畫，如何準備研究所，預備研究生 (4 + 1) (包含資料科學相關研究所和職涯準備)
• Some information and papers related to the seminar
• 培養思辨能力
• 為什麼工 (資) 管的課程看起來很雜？
• 機器學習和作業研究的奇妙結合  (最後一頁：天賦或努力)  
• 李芳齡譯，心態致勝：全新成功心理學 (Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success)

一些常聽的 Podcast 節目和培養英文聽力的方法

一些常聽的 Podcast 節目 (*)，適合坐車、(讓眼睛) 休息、睡前、或運動時聽

• Acquired (new): 
• TSMC Founder Morris Chang
• How ARM Became The World’s Default Chip Architecture (with ARM CEO Rene Haas)
• Renaissance Technologies: The best-performing investment firm of all time. A book. The hosts even talk about the hidden Markov process!
• AI with AI 
• American Public Media: Marketplace

到高中介紹作業研究 (和適性教育、選填大學志願)

臺北市立陽明高級中學，作業研究，2023/11/30。適性教育、AI 和作業研究，2024/2/22。

學生問題之回答

價值戰爭

 作者：朱敬一/ 羅昌發/ 李柏青/ 林建志，譯者：許瑞宋，價值戰爭: 極權中國與民主陣營的終極經濟衝突，衛城出版，2023 

美中經濟衝突的根源是什麼？

經貿往來為什麼無法造就民主國家與專制國家的穩定合作？

何以市場理性無法擱置自由與集權的對峙？

AI Alignment

Articles: 

• Medha Bankhwal, Ankit Bisht, Michael Chui, Roger Roberts, and Ashley van Heteren, AI for social good: Improving lives and protecting the planet, McKinsey, 2024.
• Yoshua Bengio et al., Managing extreme AI risks amid rapid progress, Science, 20 May 2024, Vol 384, Issue 6698, pp. 842-845 (arXiv)
• Jiaming Ji et al., AI Alignment: A Comprehensive Survey, arXiv:2310.19852 (website)
• Jack Stilgoe, Technological risks are not the end of the world, Science, 18 Apr 2024, Vol 384, Issue 6693.

Summarized AI information by IEEE Spectrum

Eliza Strickland, The Top 10 AI Stories of 2024, IEEE Spectrum, 31 Dec 2024.