tjhorton@utai.UUCP (11/05/87)
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO Cognitive Science Events, November 1987 ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- November 3 (Tuesday) Neuropsychology Interest Group The group meets the first Tuesday of every month in Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570, at 7:30pm ----- 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 ----- November 4 (Wednesday) Psychology Colloquium Richard Nisbett (Michigan) "Teaching Reasoning" Sidney Smith Hall 2135, 4pm ----- 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 ----- 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. ----- 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). ----- 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 ----- November 10 (Tuesday) Artificial Intelligence Seminar John Holland, Michigan Galbraith Building, rm 244, 2pm ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- November 17 (Tuesday) Artificial Intelligence Seminar Drew McDermott (Yale) CANCELLED ----- November 18 (Wednesday) Psychology Colloquium Peter Dodwell (Queen's) "Some Views on Organization of the Visual Brain" Sidney Smith Hall, rm 2135, 4pm ----- November 18 Perception Circle Peter Hallett (Toronto, Physiology) "Textures: A new approach to measuring segregation" (vision) Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570, 12pm ----- November 24 (Tuesday) Perception Circle Allen Jepson (Toronto, Computer Science) jepson@csri.toronto.edu "Low-level vision" location unavailable, 3pm ----- November 24 (Tuesday) Artificial Intelligence Seminar John Holland (University of Michigan) The talk will deal with genetic learning. Galbraith Building, rm 244, 2pm ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- November 27 (Friday) Erindale/McMaster Cognitive Seminars Giampaolo Moraglia (Toronto) "Template matching in pattern vision" McMaster, rm 204 of ?, 3:30pm ----- 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. ----- December 1 (Tuesday) Artificial Intelligence Seminar David Poole (Waterloo) Presumably on the topic of default reasoning. Galbraith Building, rm 244, 2pm ----- 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 ----- December 2 (Wednesday) CACS luncheon colloquium Lynd Forguson (Toronto, Philosophy) "Common Sense and Meta-Cognition" OISE Building, 4nd floor, rm 296, 12noon ----- 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 ----- 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 ----- December 9 (Wednesday) Ebbinghaus Empire (human cognition and memory) Gus Craik (Toronto) "Effects of aging on working memory" Sidney Smith Hall, rm 570, 12noon ----- Notes on AI seminars: GB244 has the entrance at the front, next to the speaker, so please try to arrive early. ----- 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. ----- Excerpted from Toronto Intelligence, Vol 1, Iss 3 (A Forum for Research and Study in Cognitive Science around UofT) Event announcements, Paper subscriptions (free to those with a UofT campus mailing address or reachable by Interuniversity mail), contact: tjhorton@ai.toronto.edu Next submission deadline, NOVEMBER 26. -- Timothy J Horton (416) 979-3109 tjhorton@ai.toronto.edu (CSnet,UUCP,Bitnet) Dept of Computer Science tjhorton@ai.toronto (other Bitnet) University of Toronto, tjhorton@ai.toronto.cdn (EAN X.400) Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 {seismo,watmath}!ai.toronto.edu!tjhorton
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. -- || Armin Haken armin@ai.toronto.edu || || (416)978-6277 ...!utcsri!utai!armin || || UofT DCS, Toronto M5S 1A4 CDN armin%ai.toronto@csnet-relay ||