[net.sources] AAAI 84 schedule

liz@umcp-cs.UUCP (06/27/84)

Below is the schedule for AAAI 84 gotten off the arpanet.

				-Liz Allen

Univ of Maryland, College Park MD	
Usenet:   ...!seismo!umcp-cs!liz
Arpanet:  liz@maryland

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	A A A I 8 4     C O N F E R E N C E     P R O G R A M



GENERAL INFORMATION
===================

Registration		The conference registration desk will be located 
			in the Childress Room at the Villa Capri Motel and will
   and			be open during the following hours:
			
Information		Sunday, August 5, 1984 - 3:00 to 5:00 p.m.
			Monday, August 6, 1984 - 8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
			Tuesday, August 7, 1984 - 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
			Wednesday, August 8, 1984 - 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
			Thursday, August 9, 1984  - 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
			Friday, August 10, 1984 - closed
			
			AAAI staff members will be in the Childress Room
     		        to provide assistance and answer attendees' questions. 
			Guides	from the University of Texas will give 
			directions in the Performing Arts Center and Music 
      			Building. 


Conference		Each registrant for the technical program will receive
Proceedings		in his/her conference portfolio a ticket for one
			copy of the conference proceedings. The ticket
			may be redeemed at the William Kaufmann booth 
			(same hours as conference registration) in the
			Childress Room at the Villa Capri Motel.
			Extra proceedings may be purchased at that same
			location. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN BUYING
			EXTRA COPIES OF THE PROCEEDINGS OR AI MAGAZINES,
			THE LAST DAY TO BUY THEM WILL BE THURSDAY, AUGUST
			9, 1984.

Message Center		If you need to receive a call in the Performing Arts
			Center, the telephone number is (512) 471-4511. 
			Pick up your messages in the lobby of the
			Concert Hall  Messages may also be received 
		        at the Jester Center Telephone number (512) 471-3944.
			Public phones are located in the Concert 
			Hall, Music Building and Thompson Conference Center. 

Messages		Messages and announcements about meetings not listed
 and			in the conference program will be posted on bulletin
Announcements		boards opposite the Lobby of the Concert Hall.
			Please check the board periodically.
			We hope to have a terminal available in
			the Lobby of the Concert Hall for conference attendees
			to communicate through the ARPANET.

Admission to		Each conference attendee will receive a name badge(s)
Session			upon registering.  You will not be admitted to the 
			technical, tutorial, or exhibit programs without
			your badge.


Smoking and		No smoking or eating is allowed in the session or
Eating			tutorial rooms in the Performing Arts Center and
			Music Building. No smoking will be allowed in the
			Exhibit area (Scene Shop) of the Performing Arts
			Center. However, smoking and drinking in the lobbies
			is allowed.

Coffee Breaks		The times of the breaks will vary daily. The location
			of the technical session breaks (for Tuesday and 
			Wednesday only) will be the  
			Concert Hall's mezzanine level
			and the lobby of the Opera
			Lab Theatre. For Thursday and Friday, the location
			of the breaks will be the mezzanine level of the 
			Concert Hall.The locations of the tutorial breaks
			will be the LBJ Auditorium Lobby and the
			Thompson Conference Center's patio.

Dining			Concession booth where you can buy lunches 
 			will be located on the mezzanine level
			and third level of 
			the Performing Arts Center. 
			The cafeteria in Thompson Conference Center will
			be open for breakfast (7:30 to 9:00 a.m.),
			lunch (11:45 a.m. to 1:45 p.m.) and for snacks
			(2:00 to 4:00 p.m.). The College of Fine 
         		Arts Lounge will be open for snacks and lunch.

List of 		A list of individuals who preregistered
Attendees		for the conference will be available at the Information
			desk in the Childress Room.

Press			All members of the press are requested to check in
			in the Opera Lab Theatre's Green Room.

R&D Exhibits		A selection of commercial and nonprofit
			firms will provide information about
			their products and services. The exhibit
			program is located in the Scene Shop in
			the Performing Arts Center.

Handicapped Facilities  Wheelchair seating is available in all of 
			the College and PAC facilities.  

Parking			Parking is available in the lots directly 
			east of the LBJ Library and Sid Richardson Hall
			(access via Red River St.) and in the lots along
			Manor Road and East Campus Drive, directly east of
			Memorial Stadium.

Special Facilities      We have reserved the Concert Hall Green Room for
		        informal conversation and discussion.  Please 
			take advantage of this very comfortable, relaxing
			setting. In addition to this room, small meeting
			rooms are available. Please go to the Information
			Desk at the Villa Capri Motel to reserve those rooms.


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SPECIAL MEETINGS AND SERVICES
=============================


AAAI Business Meeting

The annual AAAI business meeting will occur on Thursday, August 8 at
12:15 p.m. in the Concert Hall.  Dr. John McCarthy, President for
1983-84, will introduce new President, Dr. Woodrow Bledsoe, and
discuss AAAI program activities.

AI in Medicine Meeting (AIM)

The AAAI's special interest group in artificial intelligence, chaired
by Peter _________, will occur on __________________________at ________.

SIGART Meeting

ACM's Special Interest Group in Artificial Intelligence(SIGART) will
hold its annual meeting on Wednesday, August 8 at 12:30 p.m. in the
Recital Studio in the Music Building.




























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About AAAI
==========

American		AAAI is the scientific society for the 
Association		Artificial Intelligence community in the
 for 			United States.  It sponsors or co-sponsors
Artificial		annual AI conferences in this country and
Intelligence		abroad and produces the AI Magazine.
						------------
			Its membership includes representatives
			from academia, commerce, industry and
			government.  AAAI members receive:
			
			* Affiliation with the principal
			  association in the field of 
			  Artificial Intelligence.
			* A subscription to the AI Magazine.
			* A reduced registration fee for 
			  AAAI conferences.
			* A reduced subscription rate to Artificial
			  Intelligence.
			* Early announcements of AAAI-sponsored
			  activities.


Officers		President (1983-1984):
			John McCarthy, Stanford University
			President-elect (1984-1985):
			Woodrow Bledsoe, University of Texas at Austin
			and MCC
			Secretary-Treasurer:
			Richard Fikes, IntelliCorp Inc.
			Executive Director:
			Claudia C. Mazzetti

Executive 
Council			[ see list from brochure ]


Staff and		Claudia C. Mazzetti, Executive Director
Location		Kathy Kelly, Secretary/Membership Coordinator

			AAAI
			445 Burgess Drive
			Menlo Park, CA 94025

AAAI Past		Nils Nilsson, SRI International (1982-83)
Presidents		Marvin Minsky, Massachusetts Institute
			of Technology (1981-1982)
			Edward Feigenbaum, Stanford University (1980-1981)
			Allan Newell, Carnegie-Mellon University (1979-1980)

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
================


AAAI especially wants to thank the members of this year's Program
Committee and additional reviewers who assisted the members of the Program
Committee in reviewing the three hundred seventy (370) submitted papers.  We
also extend our appreciation to the individuals who suggested ideas
for the program. The AAAI also expresses its deepest appreciation for the
extra help provided by Al Davis, Richard Fikes, Kathy Kelly,Hector Levesque, 
Sunny Olds, and Peter Patel-Schneider.


Program 		Ronald J. Brachman
Chair                   Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence
			Research
			4001 Miranda Avenue
			Palo Alto, CA 94304

Program 		Kenneth Bowen
Committee		School of Computer and Information Science
			313 Link Hall
			Syracuse University
			Syracuse, NY 13210

			Rodney Brooks
			Computer Science Department
			Stanford University
			Stanford, CA 94305

			Jaime G. Carbonell
			Computer Science Department
			Carnegie-Mellon University
			Pittsburgh, PA 15213

			Richard Fikes
			IntelliCorp Inc.
			707 Laurel Street
			Menlo Park, CA 94025

			Michael Genesereth
			Computer Science Department
			Stanford University
			Stanford,CA 94305

			Barbara J. Grosz
			Artificial Intelligence Center
			SRI International
			333 Ravenswood Avenue
			Menlo Park, CA 94025

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			Benjamin Kuipers
			Department of Mathematics
			Tufts University
			Medford, MA 02155

			Wendy Lehnert
			Department of Computer and Information Sciences
			University of Massachusetts
			Amherst, MA 01003
			
			Douglas Lenat
			Computer Science Department
			Stanford University
			Stanford, CA  94305

			John D. Lowrance
			Artificial Intelligence Center
			SRI International
			333 Ravenswood Street
			Menlo Park, CA 94025

			Drew McDermott
			Computer Science Department
			Yale University
			New Haven, CT 06520

			John McDermott
			Computer Science Department
			Carnegie-Mellon University
			Pittsburgh, PA 15213

			Thomas Mitchell
			Computer Science Department
			Rutgers University
			New Brunswick, NJ 08903

			John Mylopoulos
			Department of Computer Science
			10 King's College road
			University of Toronto
			Toronto, Ontario
			Canada M5S 1A4


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			Judea Pearl
			Department of Computer Science
			University of California
			Los Angeles, CA 90024

			Stan Rosenschein
			Artificial Intelligence Center
			SRI International
			333 Ravenswood Street
			Menlo Park, CA 94025

			Lenhart K. Schubert
			Department of Computing Science
			University of Alberta
			Edmonton, Alberta
			Canada T6G 2H1

			Howard Shrobe
			Symbolics, Inc.
			243 Vassar Street
			Cambridge, MA 02139

			Mark Stefik
			Intelligent Systems Laboratory
			Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
			3333 Coyote Hill Road
			Palo Alto, CA 94304

			Albert Stevens
			BBN Laboratories
			10 Moulton Street
			Cambridge, MA 02238

			William R. Swartout
			USC/ISI
			4676 Admiralty Way
			Marina del Rey, CA 90291

			Peter Szolovits
			Laboratory for Computer Science
			M.I.T.
			545 Technology Sq.
			Cambridge, MA 02139

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			John K. Tsotsos
			Department of Computer Science
			10 King's College Road
			University of Toronto
			Toronto, Ontario
			Canada M5S 1A4

			Kurt Van Lehn
			Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
			3333 Coyote Hill Road
			Palo Alto, CA 94304

			Bonnie Lynn Webber
			Department of Computer and Information Sciences
			University of Pennsylvania
			Philadelphia, PA 19104

			Andy Witkin
			Fairchild Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence
			Research
			4001 Miranda Avenue
			Palo Alto, CA 94304

Additional Reviewers	Doug Appelt
			Klaus Berkling
			P. Bruce Berra
			Robert Bolles
			Lee Brownston
			Nick J. Cercone
			Norman Dalkey
			Al Davis
			Rina Dechter
			Michael Deering
			Bruce Delagi
			Larry Eshelman
			Scott E. Fahlman
			David Fleet
			Randy Goebel
			Neil Goldman
			Kevin J. Greene
			Peter E. Hart
			Paul Horstmann
			Allan Jepson
			Gary Kahn
			Jin Kim
			Gary E. Kopec
			Hector J. Levesque
			Richard F. Lyon
			William Mann
			Mitchell P. Marcus
			Sandra Marcus
			Gordon McCalla
			David McKeown
			Gerard Michon
			John L. Mohammed
			Robert C. Moore
			F. Lockwood Morris
			Jack Mostow
			Nils Nilsson
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			Ramesh S. Patil
			Alex Pentland
			Fernando Pereira
			David Poole
			Lynn Quam
			Edwina Rissland
			Igor Roizen
			Ronald L. Rivest
			Chuck Seitz
			Stuart C. Shapiro
			Dick Sites
			Mark Stickel
			Hans Uszkoreit
			Richard Waldinger
			David H. D. Warren
			David Wile
			George Wood
					
			
			
				
Local 			Elaine Rich, University of Texas at Austin
Arrangements		Gordon Novak and Barbara Smith, University
Chair and		of Texas at Austin
Committee		David Touretzky, Carnegie-
		        Mellon University

AAAI 			Claudia Mazzetti
			Kathy Kelly
		        David Blatner and Maria Gagliardi (part-time 
			employees).

















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TIME SCHEDULE
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MONDAY, AUGUST 6

9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.   Opening of the R&D Exhibit Program 
(same hours every day except Friday)

9:00 a.m. - 1:00 a.m.	Tutorial No. 1: An Overview of Artificial
			Intelligence

2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.  Tutorial No. 2: Applications of AI to Training
			and Education

2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.	Tutorial No. 3: Natural Language Processing


TUESDAY, AUGUST 7


9:00 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. Technical Paper Session: AI Architectures and Languages

9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.	Tutorial No. 4: Building Expert Systems - Part 1:
			Fundamentals
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.	Tutorial No. 6: LISP Programming

9:25 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Technical Paper Session: Search

9:25 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Technical Paper Session: Knowledge Representation
11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Technical Paper Session:
			 AI & Education and Automated Reasoning: 
		         Understanding Computer
			 Programs 

2:00 a.m. to 3:15 p.m.  Technical Paper Session: Qualitative Reasoning 

2:00 a.m. to 4:50 p.m.  Technical Paper Session: Speech Recognition and
			Natural Language Understanding
			
2:00 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.  Technical Paper Session: Learning

2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.	Tutorial No. 5: Building Expert Systems - Part 2:
			Pragmatics

2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.  Tutorial No. 7: AI Programming Technology

3:35 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.  Technical Paper Session:Automated Reasoning 
			and Knowledge Representation			

6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.  Informal Reception

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8

9:00 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. Technical Paper Session: Explanation & Natural 
			Language Generation 
			
9:00 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. Technical Paper Session:
			Inexact Reasoning 

9:25 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Technical Paper Session: Vision

11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.Technical Paper Session:Cognitive Modeling 

11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Panel: The Management of Uncertainty in Intelligent
			 Systems

12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. ACM/SIGART Business Meeting

2:00 p.m. to 3:35 p.m. Technical Paper Session: Automatic Theorem-Proving 
		      
2:00 p.m. to 3:35 p.m.  Technical Paper Session: Robotics

2:00 p.m. to 3:35 p.m.  Technical Paper Session: Expert Systems

3:35 p.m. to 3:40 p.m.  Presentation of the 1984 Publisher's Prize
			Awards
3:40 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.  Presentation of the 1984 Publisher's Prize Papers

6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. 	Main Conference Reception

7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.  Panel: Results of the Stanford LISP Timing and
			Evaluation Project

THURSDAY, AUGUST 9

8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  Last day to buy Conference Proceedings and other
			publications at the William Kaufmann Booth in 
			the Villa Capri Motel

9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Panel: Information Processors as Organizations

10:50 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Welcoming Address by Dr. Gerhard Fonken, Vice
			 President of Academic Affairs and Research,
			 University of Texas at Austin

11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. AAAI Presidential Address

12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m.  AAAI Annual Business Meeting

2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.  Invited Lecture: A Perspective on Planning

3:20 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.   Panel: AI in  the Marketplace -- Issues in the
			 Transfer of AI Technology into Products

7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.  Fiesta Reception at Fiesta Gardens


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FRIDAY, AUGUST 10

9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Tutorial and Panel: Paradigms for Machine Learning

10:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Panel: DARPA's Strategic Computing Project:
			 Challenge and Changes for AI
1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.   Invited Lecture: An Overview of
			 Natural Language Generation

2:00 p.m. 		R & D Exhibit Program Closes

2:30 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Panel: The 'Dark Ages' of AI -- Can We Avoid Them or
			Survive Them?

4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.	Hail and Farewell
































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		PROGRAM SCHEDULE
		================


SUNDAY AFTERNOON
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3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.	CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
Childress Room in the	PICK-UP
Villa Capri Motel

MONDAY MORNING
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8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.	CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND CONFERENCE
Childress Room	in the	PROCEEDINGS PICK-UP 	
Villa Capri Motel

9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  TUTORIAL NO. 1: AN OVERVIEW OF ARTIFICIAL
Opera Lab Theatre	INTELLIGENCE 
in the Performing
Arts Center		Speakers:
         		Dr. Marvin Minsky, Massachusetts Institute of 
			Technology and
		        Dr. Douglas Lenat, Stanford University
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9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. R & D EXHIBIT PROGRAM OPENS (same hours
Scene & Paint	       every day except Friday)	
Shops in the 
Performing Arts
Center

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MONDAY AFTERNOON
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2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.  TUTORIAL NO. 2: APPLICATIONS TO AI TO
Room 1.110 in 		TRAINING AND EDUCATION
Thompson Conference
Center			Speakers:
			Drs. John Seely Brown and Richard Burton,
			Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and
			Dr. William Clancey, Stanford University

2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m   TUTORIAL NO. 3: NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING
Room 2.102 in the
Thompson Conference
Center			Speaker:
			Dr. Wendy Lehnert, University of Massachusetts






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TUESDAY MORNING
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8:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.  CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND CONFERENCE
Childress Room in the	PROCEEDINGS PICK-UP 
Villa Capri Motel


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9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  TUTORIAL NO. 4: BUILDING EXPERT SYSTEMS: PART 1-
LBJ Auditorium		FUNDAMENTALS

			Speakers: Dr. Douglas Lenat, Stanford University
			and Dr. John McDermott, Carnegie-Mellon
			University

9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.  TUTORIAL NO. 6: LISP PROGRAMMING
Room 2.102 in the
Thompson Conference
Center
			Speaker: Dr. David Touretzky, Carnegie-Mellon
			University



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TUESDAY MORNING
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9:25 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION: KNOWLEDGE
Bates Recital Hall      REPRESENTATION
in the Music
Building

9:25 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.  Processing Entailments and Accessing Facts in a 
			Uniform Frame System
			Anthony S. Maida, University of California at
			Berkeley and Penn State University
9:50 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Constraint Equations: A Concise Compilable
			Representation for Quantified Relational
			Constraints in Semantic Networks
			Matthew Morgenstern, USC/ Information Sciences
			Institute
10:15 a.m. to 10:40a.m. A Theory of Action for MultiAgent Planning
			Michael Georgeff, SRI International

10:40 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Break (go to the Opera Lab Theatre's Lobby)

11:00 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. Very-High-Level Programming of Knowledge
			 Representation Schemes
			 Stephen J. Westfold, Stanford University
			 and Kestrel Institute
11:25 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. Expressiveness of a Language
			 Jock Mackinlay and Michael R. Genesereth,
			 Stanford University
11:50 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. A Self-Organizing Retrieval System for 
			 Graphs
			 Robert Levinson, University of Texas at
			 Austin


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TUESDAY MORNING
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9:25 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION:
Opera Lab Theatre	SEARCH
in the Performing Arts
Center

9:25 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.  D-Node Retargeting in Bidirectional Heuristic
			Search
			George Politowski and Ira Pohl, University
			of California at Santa Cruz

9:50 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Towards a Better Understanding of Bidirectional
			Search
			Henry W. Davis, Randy B. Pollack, and Thomas Sudkamp,
			Wright State University

10:15 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. A General Bottom-up Procedure for Searching And/Or 
			 Graphs
			 Vipin Kumar, University of Texas at Austin
10:40 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Break (go to the Opera Lab Theatre's Lobby)

11:00 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. How to Cope with Anomalies in Parallel Approximate
			 Branch-and-Bound Algorithms
			 Guo-jie Li and Benjamin W. Wah, Purdue University
11:25 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. Maintaining Diversity in Genetic Search
			 Michael L. Mauldin, Carnegie-Mellon University
11:50 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. Focusing in Plan Recognition
			 Norman F. Carver and Victor R. Lesser, University
			 of Massachusetts; Daniel L. McCue,
		         Digital Equipment Corporation


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TUESDAY MORNING
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9:00 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION:
Concert Hall in the	AI ARCHITECTURES AND LANGUAGES
Peforming Arts Center

9:00 a.m. to 9:25 a.m.  Syntax Programming
			 Stefan Feyock, College of William and Mary
9:25 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.  Five Parallel Algorithms for Production
			System Execution for the DADO Machine
			Salvatore J. Stolfo, Columbia University
9:50 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Initial Assessment of Architectures 
			Production Systems
			Charles Forgy, Anoop Gupta, Allen Newell, and Robert
			Wedig, Carnegie-Mellon University
10:15 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.Hardware and Software Architectures for Efficient
			AI
			Michael F. Deering, Fairchild Laboratory for
			Artificial Intelligence Research

10:40 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Break ( go to the mezzanine level of the Concert Hall)
				

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11:00 A.M. To 12:15 p.m. TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION:
Concert Hall	         AI & EDUCATON AND AUTOMATED REASONING: 
in the 	        	 UNDERSTANDING COMPUTER PROGRAMS
Performing Arts
Center		 	

11:00 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. An Interactive Computer-Based Tutor for LISP
			 Robert G. Farrell, John R. Anderson, and Brian
			 J. Reiser, Carnegie-Mellon University
11:25 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. Intention-Based Diagnosis of Programming Errors
			 W. Lewis Johnson and Elliot Soloway, Yale 
			 University
11:50 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. A Forward Inference Engine to Aid in Understanding
			 Specifications 
			 Donald Cohen, USC/Information Sciences Institute



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TUESDAY AFTERNOON
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12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Lunch (for Technical Sessions)

1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Lunch (for Tutorials)

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2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. TUTORIAL NO. 5: BUILDING EXPERT SYSTEMS: PART 2-
LBJ Auditorium	       PRAGMATICS

		       Speakers: Dr. John McDermott, Carnegie-Mellon
		       University and Dr. Michael R. Genesereth,
		       Stanford University

2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. TUTORIAL NO. 7: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 
Room 1.110 in 	       PROGRAMMING TECHNIQUES
Thompson Conference   
Center		       Speaker: Dr. Eugene Charniak, Brown University	












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TUESDAY AFTERNOON
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2:00 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION:
Opera Lab Theatre     SPEECH RECOGNITION AND NATURAL LANGUAGE 
in the Performing     UNSERSTANDING	
Arts Center

2:00 p.m. to 2:25 p.m. A System of Plans for Connected Speech Recognition
		       Renato DeMori and Yu F. Mong, Concordia 
		       University

2:25 p.m. to 2:50 p.m  A Production Rule System for Message Summarization
		       Elaine Marsh and Henry Hamburger, Naval
		       Research Laboratory;	
		       Ralph Grishman, New York University
2:50 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Frame Selection in Parsing
		       Steven L. Lytinen, Yale University	
3:15 p.m. to 3:35 p.m. Break (go to the Opera Lab Theatre's Lobby)


Opera Lab Theatre	
in the Performing
Arts Center	
3:35 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.	Referential Determinism and Computational Efficiency:
			Posting Constraints From Deep Structure
			Gavan Duffy and John C. Mallery, Massachusetts 
			Institute of Technology
4:00 p.m. to 4:25 p.m.  A Semantic Process for Syntactic Disambiguation
			Graeme Hirst, University of Toronto
4:25 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.  Phenomenologically Plausible Parsing
			David L. Waltz and Jordan B. Pollack, University
			of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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TUESDAY AFTERNOON
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2:00 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.  TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION:
Bates Recital Hall      LEARNING 
in the Music Building

2:00 p.m. to 2:25 p.m. Towards Chunking as a General Learning Mechanism
		       John E. Laird, Paul S. Rosenbloom, and Allen
		       Newell, Carnegie-Mellon University
2:25 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. Learning Operator Transformations
		       Bruce Porter and Dennis Kibler,
		       University of California at Irvine
2:50 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Learning About Systems That Contain State
		       Variables
		       Thomas G. Dietterich, Stanford University
3:15 p.m. to 3:35 p.m. Break (go to the Opera Lab Theatre's Lobby)
3:35 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Learning Problem Classes by Means of
		       Experimentation and Generalization
		       Agustin A. Araya, P. Universidad Catolica
		       de Chile
4:00 p.m. to 4:25 p.m. Generalization for Explanation-Based Schema
		       Acquisition
		       Paul O'Rorke, University of Illinois at Urbana-
		       Champaign
4:25 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. Constraint-Based Generalization: Learning
		       Game-Playing Plans from Single Examples
		       Steven Minton, Carnegie-Mellon University
4:50 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. Constraint Limited Generalization: Acquiring
		       Procedures From Examples
		       Peter Andreae, Massachusetts Institute of
		       Technology
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2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m.  TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION:
Concert Hall in the 	QUALITATIVE REASONING
Performing Arts
Center

2:00 p.m. to 2:25 p.m.  Qualitative Modeling in the Turbojet Engine Domain
			Raman Rajagopalan, University of Illinois at 
			Urbana-Champaign
2:25 p.m. to 2:50 p.m.  Qualitative Reasoning With Higher-Order Derivatives
			Johan de Kleer and Daniel G. Bobrow, Xerox
			Palo Alto Research Center
2:50 p.m.to 3:15 p.m.   The Use of Continuity in a Qualitative Physics
			Brian C. Williams, Massachusetts Institute of
			Technology
3:15 p.m. to 3:35 p.m.  Break (go to the mezzanine level of the Concert Hall)

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TUESDAY AFTERNOON
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3:35 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.  TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION: 
Concert Hall in		AUTOMATED REASONING AND KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION
the Performing
Arts Center


3:35 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.  Meta-Level Control Through Fault Detection
			and Diagnosis
			Eva Hudlicka and Victor R. Lesser, University
			of Massachusetts
4:00 p.m. to 4:25 p.m.  Diagnosing Circuits With State: An Inherently
			Underconstrained Problem
			Walter Hamscher and Randall Davis, Massachusetts
			of Technology
4:25 p.m. to 4:50 p.m.  Implicit Ordering of Defaults in Inheritance 
			Systems
			David S. Touretzky, Carnegie-Mellon University
4:50 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.  Knowledge Inversion
			Yoav Shoham and Drew V. McDermott, Yale
			University

TUESDAY EVENING
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6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Informal Reception 
Concert Hall's
Mezzanine and
3rd Floor








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WEDNESDAY MORNING
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8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND CONFERENCE
Childress Room in the   PROCEEDINGS PICK-UP
Villa Capri Motel
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9:00 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION:
Concert Hall in the	INEXACT REASONING
Performing Arts
Center

9:00 a.m. to 9:25 a.m.  Non-monotonic Reasoning using Dempster's rule
		        M. L. Ginsberg, Stanford University
9:25 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.  A Set-Theoretic Framework for the Processing 
			of Uncertain Knowledge
			S. Y. Lu and H. E. Stephanou, Exxon
			Production Center Co.
9:50 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Continuing Belief Functions for Evidential
			Reasoning
			Thomas M. Strat, SRI International
10:15 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. Likelihood, Probability, and Knowledge
			 Joseph Y. Halpern, IBM Research Laboratory;
			 David A. McAllester, Massachusetts Institute of
			 Technology
10:40 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. Break (go to the mezzanine level of the Concert Hall)
11:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PANEL: THE MANAGEMENT OF UNCERTAINTY IN
Concert Hall in the	 INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS
Performing Arts
Center
			 Chair: Ronald R. Yager, National Science
			 Foundation
			 Panelists: Paul Cohen, University of
			 Massachusetts;
			 John Lowrance, SRI International
			 Judea Pearl, University of California at
			 Los Angeles
			 Glen Shafer, University of Kansas
			 Lotfi Zadeh, University of California at
			 Berkeley
			 Jon Doyle, Carnegie-Mellon University

The emergence of knowledge engineering as one of the most important
areas of activity within AI has focused the attention of researchers on
issues relating to the management of uncertainty in expert and other
intelligent systems.  A number of different approaches have been
suggested for representing and manipulating uncertainty.  This panel
brings together a number of leading proponents of these different
approaches, attempting to expose important techniques and methodologies,
and clarify the differences between them.

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WEDNESDAY MORNING
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9:25 a.m. to  12:15 p.m. TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION:
Opera Lab Theatre	 VISION	
in the Performing
Arts Center

9:25 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.  A Representation for Image Curves
			David H. Marimont, Stanford University
9:50 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. The Shape of Subjective Contours
			Jon A. Webb, Carnegie-Mellon University and
			Edward Pervin, Perq Systems Corporation
10:15 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.Domain Independent Object Description and 
			Decomposition
			Tod S. Levitt, Advanced Information &
			Decision Systems
10:40 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.Break (go to the Opera Lab Theatre's Lobby)

11:00 a.m. to 11:25 a.m.Reconstructing a Visible Surface
			A. Blake, University of Edinburgh
11:25 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.Efficient Multiresolution Algorithms for Computing
			Lightness, Shape-From-Shading, and Optical Flow
			Demetri Terzopoulos, Massachusetts Institute
			of Technology
11:50 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.Fingerprints Theorems
			A.L. Yuille and T. Poggio, Massachusetts Institute
			of Technology

9:00 a.m. to 10:40 a.m. TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION:
Bates Recital Hall	EXPLANATION & NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION
in the Music
Building

9:00 a.m. to 9:25 a.m.  Context-Dependent Transitions in Tutoring
		        Discourse
			Beverly Woolf and David D. McDonald,
			University of Massachusetts
9:25 a.m. to 9:50 a.m.  Living Up to Expectations: Computing Expert 
			Responses
			Aravind Joshi and Bonnie Webber, University
			of Pennsylvania; Ralph Weischedel, 
			University of Delaware
9:50 a.m. to 10:15 a.m. Selective Abstraction of AI System Activity
			Jasmina Pavlin and Daniel D. Corkill,
			University of Massachusetts
10:15 a.m. to 10:40 a.m.Self-Explanatory Financial Planning Models
			Donald W. Kosy and Ben P. Wise, Carnegie-Mellon
			University
10:40 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.Break (go to the Opera Lab Theatre's Lobby)

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WEDNESDAY MORNING
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11:00 a.m. to 11:25 a.m. TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION:
Bates Recital Hall	 COGNITIVE MODELING
in the Performing
Arts Center

11:00 a.m. to 11:25 a.m.Explaining and Arguing With Examples
			Edwina L. Rissland, Eduardo M. Valcarce, and
			Kevin D. Ashley, University of Massachusetts
11:25 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. Automated Cognitive Modeling
			 Pat Langley and Stellan Ohlsson, Carnegie-Mellon
			 University
11:50 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. A Model of Lexical Access of Ambiguous Words
			 Garrison W. Cottrell, University of Rochester


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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
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12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Lunch

12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. SIGART Annual Business Meeting
Recital Studio in
the Music Building
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2:00 p.m. to 3:35 p.m.  TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION:
Bates Recital Hall	AUTOMATIC THEOREM-PROVING
in the Music Building

2:00 p.m. to 2:25 p.m.Generalization Heuristics for Theorems Related
		      to Recursively Defined Functions
		      S. Kamal Abdali, Computer Research Lab;
		      Jan Vytopil, BSO-AT
2:25 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. A Mechanical Solution of Schubert's Steamroller
		       by Many-Sorted Resolution	
		       Christoph Walther, Universitat Karlsruhe
2:50 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. A Self-Modifying Theorem Prover
		       Cynthia A. Brown, GTE Laboratories Incorporated
3:15 p.m. to 3:35 p.m. Break (go to the Opera Lab Theatre's Lobby)

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2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION:
Opera Lab Theatre      ROBOTICS	
in the Performing
Arts Center

2:00 p.m. to 2:25 p.m. Three Findpath Problems
		       Richard S. Wallace, Carnegie-Mellon University
2:25 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. Path Relaxation: Path Planning for a Mobile
		       Robot
		       Charles E. Thorpe, Carnegie-Mellon University
2:50 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. Task Frames in Robot Manipulation
		       Dana H. Ballard, University of Rochester
3:15 p.m. to 3:35 p.m. Break (go to the Opera Lab Theatre's Lobby)
			
				
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2:00 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. TECHNICAL PAPER SESSION:
Concert Hall in the    EXPERT SYSTEMS	
Performing Arts
Center

2:00 p.m. to 2:25 p.m. Personal Construct Theory and the Transfer of Human
		       Expertise
		       John H. Boose, Boeing Computer Services
2:25 p.m. to 2:50 p.m. Classification Problem Solving
		       William J. Clancey, Stanford University
2:50 p.m. to 3:15 p.m. YES/MVS: A Continuous Real Time Expert System
		       J.H. Griesmer, S.J. Hong,M. Karnaugh, J.K. Kastner,
		       M.I. Schor, R.L. Ennis, D.A. Klein, K.R.Milliken, and
		       H.M. VanWoerkom, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
3:15 p.m. to 3:35 p.m. Break (go to the mezzanine level of the Concert Hall)

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WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
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3:35 p.m. to 5:20 p.m. THE 1984 PUBLISHER'S PRIZE PAPERS
Concert Hall in the    ( donated by MIT Press)
Performing Arts 
Center		       

3:35 p.m. to  3:40 p.m. PRESENTATION OF THE 1984 PUBLISHER'S PRIZE AWARDS
		        by John McCarthy, AAAI's President 

			PRESENTATION OF THE PUBLISHER'S PRIZE PAPERS

3:40 p.m. to 4:05 p.m.  Choices Without Backtracking
		        Johan de Kleer, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
4:05 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.  A Logic of Implicit and Explicit Belief
   			Hector J. Levesque, Fairchild Laboratory for 
			Artificial Intelligence Research
4:30 p.m. to 4:55 p.m.  Shading into Texture
             		Alex P. Pentland, SRI International
4:55 p.m. to 5:20 p.m.  The Tractability of Subsumption in Frame-Based 
			Description Languages
			Ronald J. Brachman and Hector J. Levesque,
			Fairchild Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence
			Research**
                        

WEDNESDAY EVENING
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6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. Main Conference Reception 
Concert Hall's Mezzanineand 3rd Level

7:00 p.m.	       AAAI Executive Council Meeting

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7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. PANEL: RESULTS OF THE STANFORD LISP TIMING AND 
Opera Lab Theatre       EVALUATION PROJECT
in the Performing 
Arts Center	        Chair:
                        Richard P. Gabriel, Stanford University

			Panelists:
			Daniel Weinreb, Symbolics, Inc.
			Jon L. White, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
			Richard J. Fateman, Univ. of California at Berkeley
			Martin L. Griss, Hewlett-Packard
			Bob Kessler, University of Utah	

The results of the Stanford Lisp Performance Evaluation Project will be
presented. In addition to a description of the benchmark suite used by
the project, timings for the following implementations will be given:
DEC-10 MacLisp, DEC-2060 InterLisp, VAX Common Lisp, Vax Franz Lisp, Vax
PSL, MC68000 PSL, MC68000 Franz, Symbolics 3600, Dorado, Dolphin,
Dandelion, Cray PSL, and S-1 Lisp.

A panel of implementors will be on hand to answer questions regarding the
performance of their implementations.

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THURSDAY MORNING
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8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.  CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND CONFERENCE
Childress Room in the   PROCEEDINGS PICK-UP
Villa Capri Motel
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9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.   PANEL: INFORMATION PROCESSORS AS ORGANIZATIONS
Concert Hall in the
Performing Arts
Center
			Chair:  Randall Davis, Massachusetts Institute of
			Technology

			Panelists:
			Scott E. Fahlman, Carnegie-Mellon University
			Michael Genesereth, Stanford University
			Victor Lesser, University of Massachusetts
			Thomas Malone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology


The chairman will lay out a set of provocative and/or controversial
issues, and each panelist will respond to these issues. There will
be a short time for audience reactions at the end of the discussion.

The issues include

1.  Why should AI people worry about cooperative problem solving?  

	a.  When is cooperative problem-solving better than simply distributed
computation?  [i.e., when should the mechanism of cooperation itself be the
object of problem solving rather than using fairly simple predetermined 
methods for distributing pieces of computation?]

	b.  Which of the following two approaches to parallelism is
more promising: (i) lots of dumb processors with simple coordination
methods or (ii) fewer, more intelligent processors, with more complex
coordination methods? [or rather, when is each method appropriate?]

2.  Is there anything useful for AI to learn from studying how groups of
people, including large organizations, solve problems?

(The panelists bring to the discussion their experience in these areas:
Davis - Contract Nets and other distributed problem-solving work;
Fahlman - Recent work on Boltzman machines, large networks of "dumb
        processors"; 
Genesereth - Intelligent Agents Project and recent theorems about when it
	is desirable for agents to lie to each other;
Lesser - Hearsay and recent work on distributed problem-solving testbed;
Malone - Enterprise system and recent theorems about tradeoffs between
	different generic organizational structures.)

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THURSDAY MORNING
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10:30 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. Break (coffee will be provided on the mezzanine
			        level of the Concert Hall)	

10:50 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. WELCOME TO AAAI-84 CONFERENCE ATTENDEES by
Concert Hall in the      Dr. Gerhard Fonken, Vice President of 
Performing Arts		 Academic Affairs and Research
Center			 The University of Texas at Austin

11:00 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. AAAI PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS
Concert Hall in the 	 John McCarthy, Stanford University
Performing Arts		 "What is Common Sense?" 
Center

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THURSDAY AFTERNOON
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12:15 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. Lunch

12:15 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. AAAI Annual Business Meeting
Concert Hall in the
Performing Arts
Center
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2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.  INVITED LECTURE: A PERSPECTIVE ON PLANNING
Concert Hall in the	
Performing Arts		Speaker: Stan Rosenschein, SRI International
Center

For over a decade and a half AI planning has been concerned with how
machines might be made to act rationally by first reasoning about the
effects of their potential actions and then performing only those
actions which are believed to lead to desired outcomes.  Although this
idea is intuitively appealing, the road to artificial rationality has
been strewn with obstacles. To a large extent, the practical
difficulties in building such systems have been a major stimulus for
fundamental work in a wide variety of AI topics: temporal reasoning,
belief modeling, deduction, non-monotonic reasoning, modeling multiple
agents, and more.  This talk will attempt to put planning work in
perspective and to identify promising directions for future research

3:00 p.m. to 3:20 p.m.  Break ( on the mezzanine level of the Concert Hall)

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3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. PANEL: AI IN THE MARKETPLACE: ISSUES IN TRANSFER
Concert Hall in the    OF AI TECHNOLOGY TO PRODUCTS
Performing Arts
Center
		      Chair: Tom Kehler, IntelliCorp

		      Panelists: 
		      John Seely Brown, Xerox Palo Alto Research Center
		      David Caine, Electric Power Research Institute
		      Peter Hart, Syntelligence Inc.
		      Fred Luconi, Applied Expert Systems
		      Dennis O'Connor, Digital Equipment Corp.
		      Howard Shrobe, Symbolics, Inc.
		      Harry Tennant, Texas Instruments

A common question asked by many managers, scientists and engineers is:
where has AI technology led to a product in common use?  Retrospective
views of technology transfer have credited AI technology with everything
from timesharing to spread sheet programs.  Now that there is strong
commercial interest in directing the technology to products, how do we
deal with the difficult issues of technology transfer such as: scale-up,
product reliability, system integration, cost/performance, and training?
The panelists will attempt to address these issues from their
perspectives as participants in the process of technology transfer.





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THURSDAY EVENING
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6:15 p.m.	      Shuttle Buses will begin to load 
		      at 21 St. and Speedway from
		      the Performing Arts Center site for the Fiesta
		      Reception. From the 
		      Villa Capri Motel, you can pick up the
		      shuttle at 24th Street and Red River St.

6:25 p.m.	      Shuttle Buses from the Villa Capri will
		      pick up attendees at the Sheraton-Crest Inn and
		      Hyatt (6:30).

6:30 p.m.	      Shuttle Buses from the PAC will pick up
		      attendees at Jester Center.

7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Fiesta Reception
Fiesta Gardens,
Austin













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FRIDAY MORNING

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9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. TUTORIAL AND PANEL: PARADIGMS FOR MACHINE LEARNING
Concert Hall in the
Performing Arts         The session will be divided into two parts:
Center
			Part 1. Tutorial.
		        A single presentation defining and outlining each
        		major approach
                        to Machine Learning, and contrasting them 
			with each other on the
   			basis of objectives, techniques, 
		 	limitations, and applications.

   		 	The role of the tutorial is to:
        		-  Introduce each paradigm and the contrastive 
			dimensions listed above.
	 		-  Present some meaningful comparative analysis.
			-  Raise potentially controversial issues 
			to be addressed in the ensuing panel discussion.

			Tutorial presenter:  Jaime Carbonell 

			Part 2.  Panel discussion. 

			Each Machine Learning paradigm will be
			represented by a panelist advocating that
			particular approach.  The panelists are active
			researchers with considerable experience in ML
			in general and their approach in particular.

			Discussion Leader: Patrick Winston

			Panelists:
			Tom Mitchell, Rutgers University
			(Analytical Generalization)
			Ryzsard Michalski, University of Illinois
			(Empirical Induction)
			John Holland (Genetic Algorithms)
			Doug Lenat, Stanford University (Discovery Systems)
			Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie-Mellon University
			(Learning by Analogy)

The panel discussion will center on addressing specific issues raised in
the preceding tutorial (the panelists will be informed ahead of time of
these issues).  We are explicitly disallowing prepared statements by the
panel -- we hope to have a real discussion focused around a few burning
issues.


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FRIDAY MORNING
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(Continuation of Paradigms for Machine Learning)


Some topics for discussion include:

 - What long term contribution to the science will your approach make,
   and how does it integrate into other AI problems or areas?
 - Identify one or more intriguing thesis topics in your approach.
 - What is the major limitation suffered by other approachs that your
   paradigm strives to overcome, if any?

10:30 a.m. to 10:50 a.m. Break (on the mezzanine level in the Concert Hall)
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10:50 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. PANEL: DARPA'S STRATEGIC COMPUTING PROJECT:
Concert Hall		           Challenges and Changes for AI

			   Moderator: Mark Stefik, Xerox Palo Alto 
			   Research Center

			   Participants (all from DARPA):  
			   Lynn Conway
			   Steve Squires
			   Paul Losleben
			   Clinton Kelley

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has started a major
ten-year project for developing "machine intelligence technology" in the
US.  The plan proposes activities in the academic, industrial, and
military sectors.  It has been launched with a $300 million budget for
the first three years.

The DARPA plan sets ten year objectives in technology in
microelectronics, computer science, and artificial intelligence.  Ten
years of sustained funding can profoundly influence the directions of
research, the sizes of scientific and technical communities, and the
structures of institutions.  This session includes a presentation of the
goals and status of the Strategic Computing project, followed by a panel
of representatives from DARPA.  Questions from the audience will be
solicited.



Part 1.	Presentation of DARPA's program in Machine Intelligence
Technologies

- Program Overview, Lynn Conway
- Computer Architecture, Steve Squires
- Infrastructure, Paul Losleben
- Example Application, Clinton Kelley



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FRIDAY  MORNING
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(Continuation of DARPA's Stragetic Computing Project: Challenges and
 Changes for AI)

Part 2. Panel Discussion

This part will be divided between some previously collected questions
and ones from the audience.  Possible questions include

- The overall plan schedules the creation of new kinds of
computers, new kinds of computer language, new kinds of devices, new
tools for knowledge representation, and new sophisticated and complex
applications.  Is the plan wildly overambitious?

- Is the military slant to strategic computing compatible with the
university framework?  Just what kind of research is SC funding at the
universities?  What percentages of research will go on at the
universities and industrial and military sites?

- Looking at the formation of the new AI companies, the siphoning of
talent to the new AI companies, and the dwindling number of active
researchers, Marvin Minsky has characterized AI as in a "state of
chaos".  Is there enough talent in AI and CS in the country to do this
project?  Will the project put further strain on the universities?

- Comparison to the Japanese 5th generation project.








			







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FRIDAY AFTERNOON
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12:30 p.m. to 1:45 p.m. Lunch
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1:45 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.  INVITED LECTURE: ANN OVERVIEW OF NATURAL LANGUAGE 
Concert Hall in the     GENERATION 
Performing Arts
Center			Speaker: Bonnie Lynn Webber, University of
			Pennsylvania

Current work in Natural Language generation encompasses research in four
major areas: (1) identifying what needs to be communicated (e.g., that a
decision needs to be justified and that particular reasoning will be
used in its support); (2) identifying how the material should be
organized into a text (e.g., using point by point contrast of this
conclusion vs. an alternative one); (3) identifying what information
needs to be made explicit (e.g., taking advantage of what can be
conveyed by implicature or what is already evident to the listener,
choosing what properties to make explicit in order to get the listener
to identify an intended referent); and (4) identifying how things should
be said (i.e., identifying the words and syntactic structures that will
enable easy comprehension and providing grammars and lexicons that will
permit appropriate choices). This talk will provide an overview on this
research.
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2:00 p.m.		R & D EXHIBIT PROGRAM CLOSES

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2:30p.m. to 4:00 p.m.  PANEL: THE 'DARK AGES' OF AI -- CAN WE AVOID THEM
Concert Hall in the    OR SURVIVE THEM?
Performing Arts
Center
			Chair: Drew McDermott, Yale University

			Panelists:
			B. Chandrasekaran, Ohio State University
			John McDermott, Carnegie-Mellon University
			Ron Ohlander, DARPA
			Roger Schank, Yale University
			Mitch Waldrop, Science Magazine
				       -------
Many people in the field are disturbed by the incredibly high
expectations AI has generated in the public consciousness.  These
expectations are partly our fault, partly due to sensationalism by
popular journalists, and partly due to a "will to believe" on the part
of key military and industrial people.  Many AI researchers are starting
to talk about a coming "AI winter," after these expectations fail to be
satisfied, where, as a consequence, money for both basic and applied
research would dry up.

The panel will discuss, among other things,

-  Are expectations really too high?
-  How can we get the real story out?
-  How can we convince the world that a lot more basic
      research needs to be done, in addition to applying
      the (small amount) that is already known?
-   Are we headed for disaster?

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4:00 pm - 6:00 pm  Hail and Farewell
Concert Hall's 
Mezzanine and 3rd
Floor in the 
Performing Arts Center


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* If you are to speak in the Opera Lab Theatre, enter the stage
from the house left side, exit the doors in the corridor,
climb three steps, and then turn right onto the stage.


** The authors of this paper have declined to accept this cash award,
and have instead asked the Program Commitee to award it to the 
best paper by a student or recent student.  The winner of this
award will be announced on Wednesday afternoon at the Publisher's
Prize session.












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