Exponential Family Predictive Representations of State
David Wingate, Satinder Singh Baveja · 2007
2008 To my wife, Martha. ii Acknowledgments This work would not have been possible without generous help, both intellectually and financially. I am grateful to my advisor, Satinder Singh, for the long discussions we have had as he has patiently taught me to think clearly through my own ideas, sharpen my writing, and to raise my sights. A special thanks also to my lab mates, Matt Rudary, Britton Wolfe, Vishal Soni, Erik Talviti, Jonathan Sorg and Ishan Chaudhuri for always letting me bounce ideas around, for listening, and for patient tutoring. Thanks to Andrew Nuxoll for being a kindred spirit, to Nick Gorski for the occasional foosball game and to my collaborators at the University of Alberta. Finally, I would like to gratefully acknowledge the National Science Foundation for financially supporting me through most of my studies with a Graduate Research Fellowship. Finally, a special thank you to my wife Martha for her love, her constancy, her feistiness and for always keeping me on the straight and narrow. Thank you, Grace, Peterson and Andrew for reminding