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. -- | Armin Haken U of T, Toronto M5S 1A4 CDN | ..!utcsri!utai!armin armin@ai.toronto.edu | armin%ai.toronto@csnet-relay (416)978-6277