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Symposium and Workshop on CONNECTIONISM : MULTIPLE AGENTS, PARALLELISM AND LEARNING ================================================================= Symposium 9th of September 1986 Workshop 10th - 12th of September 1986 LOCATION Geneva University, UNI II, Switzerland The symposium and workshop are sponsored by the Swiss Group for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (SGAICO), the Jean Piaget Foundation and the Faculty of Psychology and Education Science of the University of Geneva. Symposium Programme : SYMPOSIUM DAY : 9TH OF SEPTEMBER At the 9th of September a one day symposium will be held on "CONNECTIONISM : Multiple Agents , Parallelism and Learning" where the main ideas of this paradigm in Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science will be presented. The symposium is open to the public. The goal of this symposium is to give an introduction and survey of the problems of Connectionism. 09.00 - 10.30 THE SOCIETY THEORY OF MIND: Marvin Minsky, MIT 10.45 - 12.00 THE LOCALIST POSITION IN CONNECTIONISM: ON REPRESENTATION AND LEARNING Jerome Feldman, University of Rochester 14.00 - 15.15 THE DISTRIBUTIONIST POSITION IN CONNECTIONISM: ON REPRESENTATION AND LEARNING Terry Sejnowski, John Hopkins University 15.30 - 16.45 LEARNING PARADIGMS IN CONNECTIONISM: David Rumelhart, University of California 16.45 - 18.00 BUILDING WORKING CONNECTIONIST MODELS David Waltz, Intelligent Thinking Machines, USA Entry fees for the SYMPOSIUM: STUDENTS: SFRS 40,- ; UNIVERSITY MEMBERS: SFRS 100,- ; INDUSTRY: SFRS 250,- The following persons get a entry-price reduction of 20 Percent: - Members and Students of the Faculty of Psychology and Education Science of the University of Geneva - Members of the Swiss Informatitions Society (SI) - Members of the Swiss Group for Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (SGAICO) For further information and registration apply to the SYMPOSIUM SECRETARY Mrs. Manuela Mounir WORKSHOP PROGRAMME After the Symposium a two and a half day workshop will take place at the Geneva University. The workshop is limited to 20 invited attendees, whose research interests are in different aspects of multiple agents, parallelism and learning. The goal of the workshop is to discuss and elucidate different approaches and their interrelations and to further conceptualise the present problems and future promising research directions in Connectionism. The workshop will be videotaped and later made accessible to a wider audience. Participants are: Guenter Albers Genetic A.I. and Epistemics Lab. Geneva Uni. Andre Boder MIT and Geneva University Heiner Brand University of Bielefeld, Germany Guy Cellerier Genetic A.I. and Epistemics Lab. Geneva Uni. Stefano Cerri Mario Negri Institute, Milan Jean-Jaques Ducret Genetic A.I. and Epistemics Lab. Geneva Uni. Jerome Feldman University of Rochester, Rochester Ken Haase Artificial Intelligence Lab., MIT John Holland University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Marvin Minsky Artificial Intelligence Lab., MIT Rolf Pfeifer Institute for Informatics,Zuerich University Mike Rosner ISSCO, Geneva University Thomas Rothenfluh Conflict Research Center, Zuerich University David Rumelhart University of California, San Diego Terrence Sejnowski John Hopkins University, Baltimore Zoltan Schreter Genetic A.I. and Epistemics Lab. Geneva Uni. Luc Steels A.I. Lab, Free University, Brussels John Sutton GTE Labs, Walton, USA David Waltz Intelligent Thinking Machines, Cambridge USA ORGANISATION: Guenter Albers GENETIC ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND EPISTEMICS LABORATORY University of Geneva, Switzerland TEL.: (0041) 22 20 93 33 EXT.2623 (Switzerland) REGISTRATION and SYMPOSIUM SECRETARY: Mrs. Manuela Mounir FACULTY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATION SCIENCE, UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA CH-1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland TEL.: (0041) 22 20 93 33 EXT.2657 (Switzerland) Telex: 423801 UNI CH Geneve For further (non-organisation-related) information send mail to Guenter Albers or reply by email to Daniel Schneider: to VMS/BITNET: to UNIX/EAN: (preferable) BITNET: SCHNEIDER@CGEUGE51 shneider%cui.unige.chunet@CERNVAX ARPA: SCHNEIDER%CGEUGE51.BITNET@WISCVM shneider%cui.unige.chunet@ubc.csnet uucp: mcvax!cernvax!cui!shneider X.400/ean: shneider@cui.unige.chunet