gh@utai.UUCP (03/10/87)
CONNECTIONISM AND COMPUTATION: MODELS OF MIND IN THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES
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Monday, March 30, 1987, West Hall, University College, University of Toronto
Sponsored by: The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
The Specialist Program in Cognitive Science and
Artificial Intelligence.
Dept. of Psychology, University of Toronto
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto
PROGRAM:
9:30 Geoffrey Hinton, Dept. of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon
University and University of Toronto.
"What's in a Symbol? Representing Hierarchical Structures in
Connectionist Networks"
10:45 David Kirsh, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, M.I.T.
"Some Mechanisms of Thought"
LUNCH
2:00 Paul Smolensky, Dept. of Computer Science, University of
Colorado.
"On the Relation Between Symbolic and Connectionist Computation"
3:15 Zenon Pylyshyn, Center for Cognitive Science, University of
Western Ontario
"What are Connectionist Models About?"
4:30 Discussion
For further details contact Sylvia Wookey, McLuhan Program in Culture and
Technology, 39a Queens Park Circle, Toronto, Ont., M5S 1A1, 416-978-7026.
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