[ont.events] UofToronto Cognitive Science Events, November 1987

tjhorton@utai.UUCP (11/05/87)

                          UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
                   Cognitive Science Events, November 1987

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November 3 (Tuesday)
CACS (Center for Aplied Cognitive Science at OISE) luncheon colloquium
Carl Bereiter (Toronto, OISE)
"Expertise in Learning"
Dr. Bereiter is a member of the OISE's Center for Applied Cognitive Science
(CACS).  His areas of current research include intentional learning,
creativity, and computer-supported intentional learning environment.
With Dr. Marlene Scardamalia he is currently conducting a project in the
last area, and their forthcoming book is "Expertise:  Psychological and
Educational Aspects"
OISE Building, 4th floor, rm 296, 12noon
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November 3 (Tuesday)
Program on Spatial Orientation
The UofT Department of Otolaryngology is holding its first annual scientific
day.  Guest speaker David Robinson of John Hopkins University is world
renowned for pioneering contributions in the engineering of the vestibular
and ocular motor systems.
Toronto Western Hospital, rm 4104, all day
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November 3 (Tuesday)
Neuropsychology Interest Group
The group meets the first Tuesday of every month in
Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570, at 7:30pm 
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November 4 (Wednesday)
Ebbinghaus Empire (human cognition and memory)
Brian Rogers (Oxford)
"Parallax in perspective, disparity in depth: perception and representation
of 3-D surfaces"
Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570, 12:15 sharp
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November 4 (Wednesday)
Psychology Colloquium
Richard Nisbett (Michigan)
"Teaching Reasoning"
Sidney Smith Hall 2135, 4pm
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November 5 (Thursday)
Department of Philosophy
Brian Baigrie (Calgary, currently a visitor at the Institute for History and
Philosophy of Science)
"What's Wrong with Evolutionary Epistemology"
Philosophy dept, 215 Huron St., 10 floor lounge, 4pm
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November 5 (Thursday)
"Artificial Intelligence: Fulfilling the Dream" continues on TV Ontario.
Viewers have the choice of watching on Thursdays at 8pm, Saturdays at 12:30pm,
or Sundays at 2pm.
The last 3 of the 4 thirty minute episodes in this part-time learning series
are tentatively entitled:
2. "Cloning the Experts"
3. "Making the Quantum Leap"
4. "Fulfilling the Vision"
Local AI'ers making appearances:  Hector Levesque, John Tsotsos, and Graeme
Hirst, and Zenon Pylyshyn of Western Ontario.
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November 6,7,8 (Friday, Saturday, Sunday)
North Eastern Linguistics Society (NELS)
18th Annual Conference
Northrop Frye Hall, Victoria University, starting Friday November 6th at 8am.
The focus of the conference will be theoretical linguistics (syntax).  Roughly
3 papers discuss parsing and processing, 23 discuss syntax, and 9 discuss
phonology.  A special parasession, supplemental to the conference, will deal
with "The Geometry of Phonological Representations."
The conference was held at M.I.T. in 1986, and at McGill in 1985.
To receive an information package, get details, or register, call 978-4029
between 1 and 4 pm. (or electronic mail: nels@utorepas).  Conference fees are
$25 (student) or $30 (other).
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November 9  (Monday)
Special Joint Linguistics-Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Richard Sproat (AT&T Bell Labs)
"Experiments in Connectionist Morphology"
The talk will criticize the Rumelhart and McClelland simulations.
Sandford Fleming Building, rm 4103, 10am
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November 10 (Tuesday)
Artificial Intelligence Seminar
John Holland, Michigan
Galbraith Building, rm 244, 2pm
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November 11 (Wednesday)
Ebbinghaus Empire (human cognition and memory)
Robert Coambs (ARF)
"Tranquil but indecisive:  The effects of valium on response of selection
processes"
Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570, 12noon
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November 13 (Friday)
CACS luncheon colloquium
Gavriel Salomon (Tel Aviv and Arizona)
"Skill and knowledge are not enough:  the role of mindfulness in learning
and transfer"
OISE Building, 2nd floor, rm 211, 12noon
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November 13 (Friday)
Erindale/McMaster Cognitive Seminars (Psychology)
Andy Kukla (Toronto Psychology)
"The a priori elements in psychology"
Erindale campus, south bldg, rm 3129, 3pm
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November 17 (Tuesday)  
Artificial Intelligence Seminar
Drew McDermott (Yale)  CANCELLED
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November 18 (Wednesday)
Psychology Colloquium
Peter Dodwell (Queen's)
"Some Views on Organization of the Visual Brain"
Sidney Smith Hall, rm 2135, 4pm
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November 18
Perception Circle
Peter Hallett (Toronto, Physiology)
"Textures:  A new approach to measuring segregation"  (vision)
Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570, 12pm
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November 24 (Tuesday)
Perception Circle
Allen Jepson (Toronto, Computer Science) jepson@csri.toronto.edu
"Low-level vision"
location unavailable, 3pm
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November 24 (Tuesday)
Artificial Intelligence Seminar
John Holland (University of Michigan)
The talk will deal with genetic learning.
Galbraith Building, rm 244, 2pm
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November 25 (Wednesday)
Ebbinghaus Empire (human cognition and memory)
Colin Macleod (Toronto)
"Directed forgetting affects both explicit and implicit memory tests"
Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570, 12noon
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November 25 (Wednesday)
Clarke Institute Academic Lecture series
Dr. Lewis Siminovitch (Mount Sinai)
"Applications of Molecular Biology to Medicine and Psychiatry"
Mount Sinai, main auditorium, 18th floor
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November 27 (Friday)
Scarboro Psychology brown bag seminar
Howard Sobel (Philosophy, Toronto)
"Guns and bullets:  A problem for utility theory"
Scarboro Campus, Council Chamber, 12:15pm
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November 27 (Friday)
MECA seminars
Marilyn Lamber-Drache (previously of Marseille, now at OISE)
"Computer based speech recognition and generation with adjustments for
regional accents" (standard and Parisienne french)
OISE building, 8th floor, rm 214, 12noon
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November 27 (Friday)
Erindale/McMaster Cognitive Seminars
Giampaolo Moraglia (Toronto)
"Template matching in pattern vision"
McMaster, rm 204 of ?, 3:30pm
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November 27 (Friday)
York-UofT Philosophy of Science conference
This annual 1 day event will be held at Trinity College, starting about 2pm
and going until 10pm.  Speakers are K. Okruhlik (Western) on Newton;
I. Hacking (Toronto) on the development of the notion of child abuse;
D. Smith (OISE) on sociology of knowledge; and J. Agazzi (York) on
verisimilitude.
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December 1 (Tuesday)
Artificial Intelligence Seminar
David Poole (Waterloo)
Presumably on the topic of default reasoning.
Galbraith Building, rm 244, 2pm
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December 2 (Wednesday)
Ebbinghaus Empire (human cognition and memory)
David Sherry (Toronto)
"Memory and the hippocampus in food-storing birds"
Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570, 12noon
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December 2 (Wednesday)
CACS luncheon colloquium
Lynd Forguson (Toronto, Philosophy)
"Common Sense and Meta-Cognition"
OISE Building, 4nd floor, rm 296, 12noon
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December 4 (Friday)
Scarboro Psychology brown bag seminar
Derek Besner (Psychology, Waterloo)
"On othographies and pholologies: how to read the bold print"
Scarboro Campus, Council Chamber, 12:15pm
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December 7 (Monday)
McLuhan Program:  Literacy Seminar Series
Mark Seidengerg (McGill)
@Word recognition:  A new theory of acquisition, skill performance, and
dyslexia"
McLuhan Coach House, 4pm
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December 9 (Wednesday)
Ebbinghaus Empire (human cognition and memory)
Gus Craik (Toronto)
"Effects of aging on working memory"
Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570, 12noon
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Notes on AI seminars:
GB244 has the entrance at the front, next to the speaker, so please try to
arrive early.
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Advance Notice:
"University Lectures in Vision 1988" is tentatively scheduled for the week of May 16.  About 3 days of symposiums and talks are planned, and Dr. F. de Monasterio will be one of the special speakers.
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            Excerpted from Toronto Intelligence, Vol 1, Iss 3
    (A Forum for Research and Study in Cognitive Science around UofT)

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armin@utai.UUCP (11/05/87)

Just a quick correction to avoid disappointing anyone:
The AI seminar by John Holland from U of Michigan is on Nov. 24 at
2 PM in Galbraith room 244, as advertised.  The talk is also billed
for Nov. 10, but had been changed to the 24th.


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