armin@utcsri.UUCP (04/29/87)
Announcing two seminars at the University of Toronto, May 7-8, 1987:
McLUHAN CENTRE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SEMINAR --- Thursday May 7th
Speaker: Brian Cantwell Smith (Xerox PARC, CSLI, and Stanford)
Title: "Formal Symbol Manipulation: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone"
Time: Thursday, May 7th, 4pm
Place: McLuhan Centre, The Coach House, 39A Queens Park Crescent
AI SEMINAR --- Friday May 8th
Speaker: Brian Cantwell Smith (Xerox PARC, CSLI, and Stanford)
Title: "Designing a Situated Inference Engine"
Time: Friday, May 8th, 11am
Place: Sandford Fleming Building, Room 1105, 10 King's College Circle
ABSTRACT
According to the "situated" perspective, the structure of both language
and reasoning arise out of mutual constraints between a system and its
embedding environment. The Situated Inference Engine is a pilot project
exploring this perspective in the context of a simple scheduling system.
In this talk I will review the situated perspective, introduce the SIE,
present the language it will use to communicate with its users, and
discuss our current conception of its internal architecture.
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