voula@utcsri.UUCP (Voula Vanneli) (03/19/85)
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
(_G_B = _G_a_l_b_r_a_i_t_h _B_u_i_l_d_i_n_g, _3_5 _S_t. _G_e_o_r_g_e)
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE/THEORETICAL ASPECTS/SYSTEMS SEMINAR
Thursday, March 28, 11 am, GB 220
Professor Jerry Feldman
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Rochester
"Massive Parallelism in Nature and in Computer Science"
Abstract
Human brains made of millisecond components (neurons)
can carry out complex perceptual tasks in less than a second
i.e. in about a hundred sequential time steps. This compu-
tational constraint, among others, suggests that the algo-
rithms employed by nature are quite different from those of
conventional AI. Several groups have been exploring the
direct use of "connectionist" computational models and have
obtained some promising results. The talk will describe a
model of massively parallel computation, its application to
problems of vision and language, and some of the issues it
raises for theoretical and systems work on parallel computa-
tion.