zenith@inmos.co.uk (Steven Zenith) (04/07/89)
International conference
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COMMUNICATING PROCESS ARCHITECTURE
17th/18th of July 1989, at Imperial College, London UK.
Keynote speaker
Prof. Iann Barron
Invited speakers
Prof. Igor Aleksander Neural Computing Architectures.
Prof. Colin Besant Programming of Robots.
Prof. David Gelernter Information Management in Linda.
Dr. Atsuhiro Goto The Parallel Inference Machine.
Prof. Tosiyasu Kunii Primitive Image Understanding.
Dr. Rajiv Trehan Parallel AI Systems.
Prof. Alan Robinson Functional and Relational reasoning.
Prof. Les Valiant] Bulk-synchronous Parallel Computing.
* Parallel Processing and AI *
Parallel Processing and Artificial Intelligence are two key themes
which have risen to the fore of technology in the past decade. This
international conference brings together the two communities.
Communicating Process Architecture is one of the most successful
models for exploiting the potential power of parallel processing machines.
Artificial Intelligence is perhaps the most challenging applications for
such machines. This conference explores the interaction between these two
technologies.
The carefully selected programme of invited talks and submitted papers
brings together the very best researchers currently working in the field.
* Topics include *
Robotics Neural Networks Image Understanding
Speech Recognition Implementation of Logic Programming Languages
Information management The Japanese Fifth Generation Project
Transputers and Occam
* Conference programme *
Keynote speaker
Prof. Iann Barron ; "Transputer Technology and AI."
Iann Barron is co-founder of INMOS, is Corporate Development Director,
currently leading the design of next generation transputers.
Iann Barron is visiting professor at the University of Bristol, and is
a Fellow of the British Computer Society. He was previously a visiting
Professor at the University of London. In addition to writing various
technical papers on computing and the consequences of information
technology, he has published two books - ``The future of Real Time
Technology'' and jointly with R.C Curnow, ``The Future of Information
Technology''.
Invited speakers
Prof. Igor Aleksander ;
"Myths and Realities about Neural Computing Architectures."
Professor Igor Aleksander is Head of the Electrical Engineering
Department at Imperial College, where he is also Professor of Neural
Systems Engineering. He is one of the worlds leading researchers in Neural
Computing Architectures and has been developing usable systems since 1965.
He was responsible for the design and transfer into industry of WISARD; the
worlds first general purpose neural system directed at vision problems.
Prof. Colin Besant ;
"Application of Artificial Intelligence to the Programming of Robots."
Colin Besant is Professor of Computer-Aided Manufacture in the
Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College. His interests are
predominantly in the field of flexible Manufacturing Systems including
Robotics. His research concentrates on the programming of manufacturing
systems in order to achieve a high degree of flexibility in terms of
manufacturing batch size and past variety. Artificial Intelligence plays an
increasing role in this research in the scheduling of manufacturing systems
and in robotics, where problems of collision avoidance, path planning and
grasping require a solution.
John S. Bridle ;
"Automatic Speech Recognition and Parallel Processing"
John Bridle is a Principle Scientific Officer at RSRE where he is co-
director of the Speech Research Unit and leads the Machine Intelligence
Theory section of his division. His current research interests include
fundamental studies of artificial neural systems and stochastic model-based
pattern processing, and applications of advanced pattern processing
principles to speech, image and other domains.
Prof. David Gelernter ; "Information Management in Linda."
David Gelernter is an associate professor of Computer Science at Yale
University. He works on parallelism, on heuristic programming (particularly
medical applications) and on the overlap between the two. As a graduate
student at SUNY Stony Brook he designed a parallel programming system
called `Linda'; several years ago he and his colleagues built the first
working version at Yale. The system is now seeing increasingly widespread
use, and has been advertised by the heads of two independent parallel
machine startups as an `emerging industry standard' (which it isn't - yet).
David Gelernter continues to develop Linda, and working also on
`symmetric languages', a class of languages which make no distinction
between program structures and data objects. His work in heuristic
programming centres on intelligent monitoring systems and on expert
inferencing from databases.
Dr. Atsuhiro Goto ;
"Research and Development of the Parallel Inference Machine in the FGCS
Project."
Dr Goto is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for New Computer
Technology (ICOT) Tokyo, which he joined in August 1985. He is conducting
research and development of parallel inference machine architecture. His
current research interests include parallel architectures for parallel
logic programming languages, garbage collection, memory architectures and
parallel programming.
Prof. Tosiyasu Kunii ;
"A Communicating Process Architecture Model of Primitive Image
Understanding - A Case Study."
Tosiyasu L. Kunii is currently Professor of Information and Computer
Science, at the University of Tokyo. He began his work in raster computer
graphics at the University in 1968, which led to the Tokyo Raster
Technology Project. His particular research interest is in the elements of
artificial intelligence to recognize and create images. He has authored and
edited more than 25 computer science books, and published more than 100
refereed papers and articles in computer science and applications.
Professor Kunii is also chairman of the Occam User Group in Japan.
Dr. Rajiv Trehan ;
"Concurrent Logic Languages for the design and implementation of Parallel
AI Systems."
Rajiv Trehan has been working for the last four year in the area of
parallel declarative systems within the Department of Artificial
Intelligence, Edinburgh. His research activities include: hardware support
for large knowledge bases; concurrent logic languages, like PARLOG, GHC and
Concurrent Prolog; distributed Artificial Intelligence and parallel
architectures. This work has formed the basis of his PhD, which is an
investigation of the concurrent logic languages and how they support
Artificial Intelligence programming techniques and applications. Much of
his work has been adopted by the Parallel Architectures Laboratory,
Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI), Edinburgh.
Prof. J.A.Robinson ;
"Functional and Relational reasoning with a fine-grain parallel reduction
system."
Since 1967 J.A.Robinson has been a Professor at Syracuse University.
>From 1967 to 1984 he was Distinguished Professor of Logic and Computer
Science, in 1984 he was appointed University Professor. His research
interests center around exploiting logical methods on the computer. In 1963
he devised the ``resolution principle'', an automatic deduction technique
based on the ``unification'' pattern-matching algorithm. resolution has
been applied by Colmerauer and Kowalski to develop what is now known as
``logic programming''. His current research interest is in designing
massively-parallel symbolic computation systems in which the underlying
logics of LISP-like and PROLOG-like programming languages are completely
intergrated.
Prof. Les Valiant ; "Bulk-synchronous Parallel Computing."
Professor Leslie G. Valiant is currently Gordon McKay Professor of
Computer Science and Applied Mathemmatics at Harvard University. His
current research interests are computational complexity, machine learning
and the theory of parallel algorithms and architectures. In 1986 he
received the Navanlinna prize for theory of information processing from the
International Mathematical Union.
* Proceedings *
The edited proceedings includes invited and submitted papers and is
intended for publication in a new book series on Communicating Process
Architecture published by John Wiley and Sons.
* The conference organising committee *
Organising committee, programme editors and conference chairmen:
Dr. Mike Reeve Imperial College, London, UK.
Steven Ericsson Zenith INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK.
The programme and organising committee:
J.T Amenyo Ctr. Telecoms Research, Columbia University.
Jean-Jacques Codani INRIA, France.
Dr. Atsuhiro Goto Institute for New Generation Computer Technology
(ICOT), Japan.
Dr.med.Ulrich Jobst Ostertal - Klinik fur Neurologie und Klinische
Neurophysiologie
Dr. Peter Kacsuk Multilogic Computing, Budapest, Hungary.
Pasi Koikkalainen Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland.
Prof. T. L. Kunii The University of Tokyo, Japan.
Dr. Heather Liddell Queen Mary College, London.
Prof. Y. Paker Polytechnic of Central London
Prof. L. F. Pau Technical University of Denmark.
Prof. Bernd Radig Institut Fur Informatik, Munchen.
Prof. Alan Robinson Syracuse University, USA.
Kai Ming Shea University of Hong Kong.
Prof. David Warren Bristol University, UK.
Chung Zhang Brighton Polytechnic. UK.
* Programme timetable *
The timetable is as follows:
Sunday
16:00pm to 18:00pm Registration
Monday Tuesday
8:30am to 10:00pm Registration 09:00am Submitted paper
10:00am Introduction 09:30am Submitted paper
10:15am Keynote speach 10:00am Invited speaker
- Professor Iann Barron 10:45am Coffee
11:00am Coffee 11:15am Invited speaker
11:30am Invited speaker 12:00pm Invited speaker
12:15pm Invited speaker 12:45pm Lunch
13:00pm Lunch 14:00pm Invited speaker
14:30pm Submitted paper 14:45pm Invited speaker
15:00pm Submitted paper 15:30pm Coffee
15:30pm Submitted paper 16:00pm Submitted paper
16:00pm Coffee 16:30pm Submitted paper
16:30pm Invited speaker 17:00pm Submitted paper
17:15pm Invited speaker 17:30pm End
18:00pm Break
19:00pm Transport to Dinner
Before Dinner Sherry
20:00pm Conference Dinner
* Conference dinner *
The conference dinner will be held at London Zoo, with before dinner
sherry in the Aquarium. Coaches will transport delegates.
* Accommodation *
Accommodation is available on the Campus of Imperial College. Campus
accommodation is available for Sunday and/or Monday night. Hotel
accommodation can be arranged separately by writing to the conference
secretary.
* Car parking *
Available at a number of local NCP sites.
* Payment *
Cheques or bankers drafts in pounds sterling should be made payable
to: OUG AI Conferences
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Residential (1 night) 225 pounds sterling []
Residential (2 nights) 250 pounds sterling []
Conference dinner 42 pounds sterling []
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Some student subsidy is available, for details contact the conference
secretary.
Special dietary requirements:
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* Registration *
Registration should be received by June 16th. Late registration will
incur a 20 pound surcharge. All enquiries should be addressed to the
conference secretary:
The Conference Secretary,
OUG AI Conferences,
INMOS Limited,
1000 Aztec West,
Almondsbury,
Bristol BS12 4SQ,
UNITED KINGDOM.
Tel. 0454 616616 x503
email: zenith@inmos.co.uk
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This conference is underwritten by INMOS Limited, to whom the organising
committee wish to extend their thanks.