[mod.ai] Seminar - Learning Apprentice Systems

rao@CVL.UMD.EDU (SubbaRao Kambhampati) (10/14/86)

Title: 		Learning Apprentice Systems

Speaker:	Prof. Tom Mitchell, Carnegie-Mellon University

Location: 	Rm. 2324 Dept of CS, U of MD, College Park

Time:     	4:00pm	

	We consider a class of knowledge-based systems called Learning
Apprentices: systems that provide interactive aid in solving some problem,
and that automatically acquire new knowledge by observing the actions of
their users.  The talk focuses on a  particular Learning Apprentice, called
LEAP, which is presently being developed in the domain of digital circuit
design.  LEAP is able to infer rules that characterize how to implement
classes of circuit functions, by analyzing circuit fragments contributed by
its users.  The organization of LEAP suggests how similar learning
apprentices might be constructed in a variety of task domains.

(Refreshments will be served at 3:30pm in Rm. 3316)