In heuristics, I like Asynchronous teams [ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/edrc-22/project/ateams/WWW/home_page.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/e

In heuristics, I like Asynchronous teams [ http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/edrc-22/project/ateams/WWW/home_page.html http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs/project/edrc-22/project/ateams/... ] In multi-robot coordination I like the free market system [ http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/projects/colony/architecture.shtml http://www.frc.ri.cmu.edu/projects/colony/architecture.shtml ] And regarding machine learning I like neural nets (MLP), however the algorithms that currently blow my mind are convoluted neural networks (CNNs) and deep belief networks trained with auto-encoders. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyzOUbkUf3M on the 21-minute mark to see it in action.