Patty.Hodgson@ISL1.RI.CMU.EDU.UUCP (02/11/87)
SPECIAL SEMINAR TOPIC: Large Optical Expert Systems SPEAKER: Dr. Alastair D. McAulay Wright State University Department of Computer Science DATE: Thursday, February 12 TIME: 10:30 am PLACE: Doherty Hall 3313, CMU ABSTRACT: Fast expert systems are required in such areas as plant diagnosis, and robotics. The advantages of optics over electronics for such systems are discussed and include: massively parallel logic and pattern matching, and global communications and search. New computer architectures are required to efficiently utilize fast 2-D optical spatial light modulators in development. A proposed real-time optical recursive probabilistic expert system is described. Conventionally, matching in optics is performed in an analog manner. An alternative digital symbolic substitution approach is described for matching and variable instantiation in logic programming languages. ************************************************************************* Alastair holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University, and M.A. and B.A. degrees with honors from Cambridge University. He is NCR Distinguished Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Wright State University. He has numerous publications involving optical computing, scientific computation, signal processing, and parallel computation. Previously, for the past eight years, he was Program Manager and Principal Investigator in the Corporate Computer Science Laboratory at Texas Instruments for a DARPA/ONR optical computing contract. He is a Senior member of IEEE and a member of SPIE and SEG. He founded the Dallas IEEE Computer Society and was Chairman of the Dallas Section. ***************************************************************************** If you are interested in an appointment with Dr. McAulay contact Patty at 8818 or send mail pah@d.