Artificial Intelligence Research Group (AIRG)
Topics - Spring 1999

Our group meets on Thursdays at 11:00 a.m., FL 246.

Dates and topics for this semester are as follows:

Jan 21

Organizational Meeting (Coordinator: C. Ruiz)

Jan 28

Lee Becker
Discussion of paper "Optimality: From Neural Networks to Universal Grammar" By Alan Prince and Paul Smolensky Science, Vol. 275, 14 March 1997, 1604-1610

Feb 04

Video: "How to give computers common sense" McCarthy/Minsky Debate.

Feb 11

Gerard Rinkus.
Sr. Scientist, Charles River Analytics
"TEMECOR: Temporal Episodic Memory using Combinatorial Representations."

Feb 18

No meeting

Feb 25

Lee Becker
Discussion of paper: "Language acquisition and use: Learning and applying probabilistic constraints," -By Mark Seidenberg, Science, Vol. 275, March 1997, pp. 1599-1603

Mar 04

David Brown
"Functional Emergence"

Mar 11

No meeting

Mar 18

Dan Grecu
"Using Expectations in Design"

Mar 25

Carolina Ruiz
"Using Domain Knowledge in Machine Learning: Inductive vs. Analytical Learning"

April 01

Michael Gennert
"Assertions, Assumptions, Angels, and Devils: A Language for Contracts between Agents"

April 08

Janet Burge
"Knowledge Based Software Engineering"

April 15

Sergio Alvarez
"Examples of Learning in Probabilistic Networks"

April 22

No meeting

April 29

Shawn Nicholson
"A Test-Bed for Distributed Multi-Agent Learning Using Coactive Cooperation"

May 6

Michael Anderson. Diagrammatic Reasoning Consortium & University of Hartford
"Diagrammatic Reasoning: Computing with Diagrams"