DIKRAN@SU-CSLI.ARPA (09/20/84)
From: Dikran Karagueuzian <DIKRAN@SU-CSLI.ARPA>
[Forwarded from the CSLI Newsletter by Laws@SRI-AI.]
PROJECT ACTIVITIES FOR PROJECT F-1: THEORIES OF INFORMATION
The notions information and of informational content are central to much
of the work done at CSLI and are emerging as central notions in philosophy,
computer science, and other disciplines. Thus we need mathematically
precise and philosophically cogent accounts of information and the forms
it takes. The F-1 project will hold a series of meetings on various CSLI
researchers' approach to the notion of information. The emphasis will be
on gaining a detailed understanding of the theories that are being developed
and discussing issues in ways that will be helpful in making further
progress. Those interested should attend the meetings regularly to help
develop a working group with a shared body of knowledge. For this reason,
we will not make it a practice to announce individual meetings, which will
occur approximately bi-weekly, Tuesdays at 3:15, in the Ventura Seminar
Room. The first meeting will be on October 2, when Jon Barwise will speak
for a bit about the nature and prospects for a theory of information,
followed by Fernando Pereira and/or Stan Rosenschein who will talk about
the current state of situated automata theory.
---John Perry