MILLER@VTCS1.BITNET.UUCP (02/19/87)
********************Mid-Atlantic Regional AI Meeting******************** The first annual meeting of AISMAS (the AI Society of the Mid-Atlantic States) will be held at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia on March 6 and 7. The meeting will include a keynote speech by Prof. Gerry Dejong of the University of Illinois, panels on the value and capabilities of expert systems and AI architectures, and graduate student presentations of current research. As a special inducement towards graduate student attendance/participation, there will be free doughnuts and coffee, and no registration fee. Below is a preliminary schedule of the AISMAS meeting: Friday, March 6 Saturday, March 7 8:00pm Keynote speech: 8:30am Grad Student presentations Prof Gerry Dejong, U. of Ill. 10:00am Coffee Break 9:30pm Reception 10:15am Panel "What Expert Systems Can't Do" 11:15am Grad Student presentations 12:00 Lunch & program demos 1:30pm Grad Student presentations 3:00pm Coffee Break 3:15pm Panel "Special AI Architectures" 4:15pm Grad Student presentations 5:00pm AISMAS Business Meeting If you are doing AI research and in the Mid-Atlantic region (or near the Mid-Atlantic region and don't mind a longish trip) then your attendance and/or participation is encouraged. For more information about AISMAS contact your local AISMAS coordinator or Prof. David Miller Dept of Computer Science, Virginia Tech (703) 961-5605 miller%vtcs1@bitnet-relay.arpa This year's meeting is sponsored by the Automation and Robotics Project at the Jet Propulsion Laboratories and the Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science.