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Learning, information theory, predictive inference, and living system:

• S. Still, D. A. Sivak, A. J. Bell and G. E. Crooks. The thermodynamics of prediction. PRL 109, 120604 (2012)
  
  
• S. Still and D. Precup. An information-theoretic approach to curiosity-driven reinforcement learning. GSO 2009 Conference Proceedings in Theory in Biosciences: Volume 131, Issue 3 (2012), pages 139-148.
  
  
• S. Still, J. P. Crutchfield and C. J. Ellison. Optimally Predictive Causal Inference. CHAOS 20 (2010) Special Issue on "Intrinsic and Designed Computation: Information Processing in Dynamical Systems".
  
  
• S. Still. Information theoretic approach to interactive learning. EPL 85 (2009) 28005.
  Earlier version at http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.1948
  
  
• S. Still and W. Bialek. How many clusters? An information theoretic perspective. Neural Computation, 16(12):2483-2506 (2004)  
  
  
• S. Still, W. Bialek and Bottou, L. Geometric Clustering using the Information Bottleneck method. In Sebastian Thrun, Lawrence K. Saul, and Bernhard Schölkopf, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 16. MIT Press (2004)
  
  
• E. Schneidman, S. Still, M. J. Berry II, and W. Bialek. Network Information and Connected Correlations. Physical Review Letters, 91(23):238701 (2003)
  

Quantitative Finance:

• F. Caccioli, S. Still, M. Marsili, and I. Kondor. Optimal Liquidation Strategies Regularize Portfolio Selection. The European Journal of Finance Special issue on New Facets of Economic Complexity in Modern Financial Markets (2011).
  
  
• S. Still and I. Kondor Regularizing Portfolio Optimization.  New Journal of Physics 12 (2010) 075034 (15pp). Special Issue on Statistical Physics Modeling in Economics and Finance.
  This work was also presented at the Third Financial Risks International Forum, Paris, March 25/26, 2010.
  

Neuromorphic engineering:

• S. Still, K. Hepp, and R. J. Douglas. Neuromorphic Walking Gait Control. IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Volume 17, Issue 2, pp. 496 - 508 (2006)
  
  
• S. Still, B. Schölkopf, K. Hepp, and R. J. Douglas. Four-legged Walking Gait Control Using a Neuromorphic Chip Interfaced to a Support Vector Learning Algorithm. In Todd K. Leen, Thomas G. Dietterich, and Volker Tresp, editors, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 13, pp. 741--747 MIT Press (2001)
  
  
• S. Still and G. LeMasson. Traveling waves in a ring of three inhibitory coupled model neurons. Neurocomputing, 26-27:533-539 (1999)
  
  
• S. Still and M. W. Tilden. Controller for a four legged walking machine. In L. S. Smith and A. Hamilton, editors, Neuromorphic Systems: Engineering Silicon from Neurobiology. World Scientific (1998)

Data analysis and signal processing:

• Hamilton CW, C Beggan, S Still, M Beuthe, R Lopes, D Williams, J Radebaugh, and W Wright. Spatial distribution of volcanoes on Io: implications for tidal heating and magma ascent. Earth and Planetary Sciences Letters (2013)
  
  
• D. Mandic, S. Still and S. C. Douglas. Duality between widely linear and dual channel adaptive filtering. ICASSP Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International
  Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, pp: 1729-1732 (2009)

Under review

• S. Still Information Bottleneck approach to predictive inference (2012) (submitted to Entropy, Special issue on Information Bottleneck); available upon request.
  
  
• S. Still and J. P. Crutchfield (2007). Structure or Noise?  Earlier version at http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/0708.0654

PhD Thesis

• S. Still. Walking gait control for four-legged robots. ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) Zuerich, Department of Physics, 2000.

Diplomarbeit

• S. Still. "Characterization and Optimization of Lithium-Carbon-Intercalation Electrodes for the use in Litium-Ion-Exchange Batteries.” Universitaet Hannover, Department of Physics, 1995.
  

Conference Contributions 

• S. Still, M. Dinculescu and D. Precup. An Information Theoretic Approach for Building Approximate Predictive Models, poster at the workshop on ”Grounding Sensation, Knowledge, and Cognition in Sensori-Motor Experience” at Neural Information Processing Systems 19, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 2006.
  
  
• S. Still. Active learning and optimal behavior, spotlight presentation and poster at the workshop on “Value of Information in Inference, Learning and Decision-Making” at Neural Information Processing Systems 18, Vancouver, BC, Canada. 2006.
  
  
• S. Still. Active learning and optimal predictions. Talk at the Workshop on Behavioral Learning at Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 18, Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2005.
  
  
• S. Still, A. K. Schenk, B. D. Wright, A. J. Doupe and W. Bialek. Information theoretic approaches to the analysis of complex natural sounds. The Gordon Conference ``Sensory Coding and the Natural Environment -- Probabilistic models of perception'', Mount Holyoke College, MA, USA, 2002.
  
  
• S. Still and M. W. Tilden. Coupled Oscillators and Walking Control: A Hardware Implementation of a Distributed Motor System. In N. Elsner and R. Wehner, editors, Proceedings of the 26th Göttingen Neurobiology Conference, volume 2, Stuttgart, 1998. Georg Thieme Verlag.
  
  
• C. Collin and S. Still. Towards a Neuronally-Controlled Walking Machine. 2nd International Conference on Cognitive and Neural Systems, Boston, MA, USA, 1998.
  

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