jon@INCSYS.COM (Jon Shultis) (05/09/91)
Workshop on Informal Computing 29-31 May 1991 Santa Cruz, California Program Wednesday 29 May Conversational Computing and Adaptive Languages 8:15 Opening Remarks, Jon Shultis, Incremental Systems 8:30 Natural Language Techniques in Formal Languages, David Mundie, Incremental Systems 9:30 Building and Exploiting a User Model In Natural Language Information Systems, Sandra Carberry, University of Delaware 10:30 Break 10:45 Informalism in Interfaces, Larry Reeker, Institutes for Defense Analyses 11:45 Natural Language Programming in Solving Problems of Search, Alan Biermann, Duke University 12:30 Lunch 13:45 Linguistic Structure from a Cognitive Grammar Perspective, Karen van Hoek, University of California at San Diego 14:45 Notational Formalisms, Computational Mechanisms: Models or Metaphors? A Linguistic Perspective, Catherine Harris, University of California at San Diego 15:45 Break 16:00 Discussion 18:00 Break for dinner Thursday 30 May Informal Knowledge and Reasoning 8:15 What is Informalism?, David Fisher, Incremental Systems 9:15 Reaction in Real-Time Decision Making, Bruce D'Ambrosio, Oregon State University 10:15 Break 10:30 Decision Making with Informal, Plausible Reasoning, David Littman, George Mason University 11:15 Title to be announced, Tim Standish, University of California at Irvine 12:15 Lunch 13:30 Intensional Logic and the Metaphysics of Intensionality, Edward Zalta, Stanford University 14:30 Connecting Object to Symbol in Modeling Cognition, Stevan Harnad, Princeton University 15:30 Break 15:45 Discussion 17:45 Break 19:00 Banquet Friday 31 May Modeling and Interpretation 8:15 A Model of Modeling Based on Reference, Purpose and Cost-effectiveness, Jeff Rothenberg, RAND 9:15 Mathematical Modeling of Digital Systems, Donald Good, Computational Logic, Inc. 10:15 Break 10:30 Ideographs, Epistemic Types, and Interpretive Semantics, Jon Shultis, Incremental Systems 11:30 Discussion 12:30 Lunch and End of the Workshop 13:45 Steering Committee Meeting for Informalism '92 Conference, all interested participants are invited. Jon Shultis Incremental Systems Corp. 319 S. Craig St. Pittsburgh, PA 15213 (412) 621-8888 (412) 621-0259 (FAX)