zenith@inmos.co.UK (Steven Zenith) (03/24/89)
International conference ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND COMMUNICATING PROCESS ARCHITECTURE 17th/18th of July 1989, at Imperial College, London UK. Keynote speaker Prof. Iann Barron Invited speakers Prof. Igor Aleksander Neural Computing Architectures. Prof. Colin Besant Programming of Robots. Prof. David Gelernter Information Management in Linda. Dr. Atsuhiro Goto The Parallel Inference Machine. Prof. Tosiyasu Kunii Primitive Image Understanding. Dr. Rajiv Trehan Parallel AI Systems. Prof. Alan Robinson Functional and Relational reasoning. Prof. Les Valiant] Bulk-synchronous Parallel Computing. * Parallel Processing and AI * Parallel Processing and Artificial Intelligence are two key themes which have risen to the fore of technology in the past decade. This international conference brings together the two communities. Communicating Process Architecture is one of the most successful models for exploiting the potential power of parallel processing machines. Artificial Intelligence is perhaps the most challenging applications for such machines. This conference explores the interaction between these two technologies. The carefully selected programme of invited talks and submitted papers brings together the very best researchers currently working in the field. * Topics include * Robotics Neural Networks Image Understanding Speech Recognition Implementation of Logic Programming Languages Information management The Japanese Fifth Generation Project Transputers and Occam * Conference programme * Keynote speaker Prof. Iann Barron ; "Transputer Technology and AI." Iann Barron is co-founder of INMOS, is Corporate Development Director, currently leading the design of next generation transputers. Iann Barron is visiting professor at the University of Bristol, and is a Fellow of the British Computer Society. He was previously a visiting Professor at the University of London. In addition to writing various technical papers on computing and the consequences of information technology, he has published two books - ``The future of Real Time Technology'' and jointly with R.C Curnow, ``The Future of Information Technology''. Invited speakers Prof. Igor Aleksander ; "Myths and Realities about Neural Computing Architectures." Professor Igor Aleksander is Head of the Electrical Engineering Department at Imperial College, where he is also Professor of Neural Systems Engineering. He is one of the worlds leading researchers in Neural Computing Architectures and has been developing usable systems since 1965. He was responsible for the design and transfer into industry of WISARD; the worlds first general purpose neural system directed at vision problems. Prof. Colin Besant ; "Application of Artificial Intelligence to the Programming of Robots." Colin Besant is Professor of Computer-Aided Manufacture in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Imperial College. His interests are predominantly in the field of flexible Manufacturing Systems including Robotics. His research concentrates on the programming of manufacturing systems in order to achieve a high degree of flexibility in terms of manufacturing batch size and past variety. Artificial Intelligence plays an increasing role in this research in the scheduling of manufacturing systems and in robotics, where problems of collision avoidance, path planning and grasping require a solution. John S. Bridle ; "Automatic Speech Recognition and Parallel Processing" John Bridle is a Principle Scientific Officer at RSRE where he is co- director of the Speech Research Unit and leads the Machine Intelligence Theory section of his division. His current research interests include fundamental studies of artificial neural systems and stochastic model-based pattern processing, and applications of advanced pattern processing principles to speech, image and other domains. Prof. David Gelernter ; "Information Management in Linda." David Gelernter is an associate professor of Computer Science at Yale University. He works on parallelism, on heuristic programming (particularly medical applications) and on the overlap between the two. As a graduate student at SUNY Stony Brook he designed a parallel programming system called `Linda'; several years ago he and his colleagues built the first working version at Yale. The system is now seeing increasingly widespread use, and has been advertised by the heads of two independent parallel machine startups as an `emerging industry standard' (which it isn't - yet). David Gelernter continues to develop Linda, and working also on `symmetric languages', a class of languages which make no distinction between program structures and data objects. His work in heuristic programming centres on intelligent monitoring systems and on expert inferencing from databases. Dr. Atsuhiro Goto ; "Research and Development of the Parallel Inference Machine in the FGCS Project." Dr Goto is a Senior Researcher at the Institute for New Computer Technology (ICOT) Tokyo, which he joined in August 1985. He is conducting research and development of parallel inference machine architecture. His current research interests include parallel architectures for parallel logic programming languages, garbage collection, memory architectures and parallel programming. Prof. Tosiyasu Kunii ; "A Communicating Process Architecture Model of Primitive Image Understanding - A Case Study." Tosiyasu L. Kunii is currently Professor of Information and Computer Science, at the University of Tokyo. He began his work in raster computer graphics at the University in 1968, which led to the Tokyo Raster Technology Project. His particular research interest is in the elements of artificial intelligence to recognize and create images. He has authored and edited more than 25 computer science books, and published more than 100 refereed papers and articles in computer science and applications. Professor Kunii is also chairman of the Occam User Group in Japan. Dr. Rajiv Trehan ; "Concurrent Logic Languages for the design and implementation of Parallel AI Systems." Rajiv Trehan has been working for the last four year in the area of parallel declarative systems within the Department of Artificial Intelligence, Edinburgh. His research activities include: hardware support for large knowledge bases; concurrent logic languages, like PARLOG, GHC and Concurrent Prolog; distributed Artificial Intelligence and parallel architectures. This work has formed the basis of his PhD, which is an investigation of the concurrent logic languages and how they support Artificial Intelligence programming techniques and applications. Much of his work has been adopted by the Parallel Architectures Laboratory, Artificial Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI), Edinburgh. Prof. J.A.Robinson ; "Functional and Relational reasoning with a fine-grain parallel reduction system." Since 1967 J.A.Robinson has been a Professor at Syracuse University. From 1967 to 1984 he was Distinguished Professor of Logic and Computer Science, in 1984 he was appointed University Professor. His research interests center around exploiting logical methods on the computer. In 1963 he devised the ``resolution principle'', an automatic deduction technique based on the ``unification'' pattern-matching algorithm. resolution has been applied by Colmerauer and Kowalski to develop what is now known as ``logic programming''. His current research interest is in designing massively-parallel symbolic computation systems in which the underlying logics of LISP-like and PROLOG-like programming languages are completely intergrated. Prof. Les Valiant ; "Bulk-synchronous Parallel Computing." Professor Leslie G. Valiant is currently Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Applied Mathemmatics at Harvard University. His current research interests are computational complexity, machine learning and the theory of parallel algorithms and architectures. In 1986 he received the Navanlinna prize for theory of information processing from the International Mathematical Union. * Proceedings * The edited proceedings includes invited and submitted papers and is intended for publication in a new book series on Communicating Process Architecture published by John Wiley and Sons. * The conference organising committee * Organising committee, programme editors and conference chairmen: Dr. Mike Reeve Imperial College, London, UK. Steven Ericsson Zenith INMOS Limited, Bristol, UK. The programme and organising committee: J.T Amenyo Ctr. Telecoms Research, Columbia University. Jean-Jacques Codani INRIA, France. Dr. Atsuhiro Goto Institute for New Generation Computer Technology (ICOT), Japan. Dr.med.Ulrich Jobst Ostertal - Klinik fur Neurologie und Klinische Neurophysiologie Dr. Peter Kacsuk Multilogic Computing, Budapest, Hungary. Pasi Koikkalainen Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland. Prof. T. L. Kunii The University of Tokyo, Japan. Dr. Heather Liddell Queen Mary College, London. Prof. Y. Paker Polytechnic of Central London Prof. L. F. Pau Technical University of Denmark. Prof. Bernd Radig Institut Fur Informatik, Munchen. Prof. Alan Robinson Syracuse University, USA. Kai Ming Shea University of Hong Kong. Prof. David Warren Bristol University, UK. Chung Zhang Brighton Polytechnic. UK. * Programme timetable * The timetable is as follows: Sunday 16:00pm to 18:00pm Registration Monday Tuesday 8:30am to 10:00pm Registration 09:00am Submitted paper 10:00am Introduction 09:30am Submitted paper 10:15am Keynote speach 10:00am Invited speaker - Professor Iann Barron 10:45am Coffee 11:00am Coffee 11:15am Invited speaker 11:30am Invited speaker 12:00pm Invited speaker 12:15pm Invited speaker 12:45pm Lunch 13:00pm Lunch 14:00pm Invited speaker 14:30pm Submitted paper 14:45pm Invited speaker 15:00pm Submitted paper 15:30pm Coffee 15:30pm Submitted paper 16:00pm Submitted paper 16:00pm Coffee 16:30pm Submitted paper 16:30pm Invited speaker 17:00pm Submitted paper 17:15pm Invited speaker 17:30pm End 18:00pm Break 19:00pm Transport to Dinner Before Dinner Sherry 20:00pm Conference Dinner * Conference dinner * The conference dinner will be held at London Zoo, with before dinner sherry in the Aquarium. Coaches will transport delegates. * Accommodation * Accommodation is available on the Campus of Imperial College. Campus accommodation is available for Sunday and/or Monday night. Hotel accommodation can be arranged separately by writing to the conference secretary. * Car parking * Available at a number of local NCP sites. * Payment * Cheques or bankers drafts in pounds sterling should be made payable to: OUG AI Conferences Full name___________________________________________ Institute/Company___________________________________ Address_____________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________ Country_____________________________________________ email :_____________________________________________ Non-residential 200 pounds sterling [] Residential (1 night) 225 pounds sterling [] Residential (2 nights) 250 pounds sterling [] Conference dinner 42 pounds sterling [] Total Payable________________________ Some student subsidy is available, for details contact the conference secretary. Special dietary requirements: Vegan [] Vegetarian [] Other (Please specify) Date____________ Signed_______________________________ Dated_____________________ * Registration * Registration should be received by June 16th. Late registration will incur a 20 pound surcharge. All enquiries should be addressed to the conference secretary: The Conference Secretary, OUG AI Conferences, INMOS Limited, 1000 Aztec West, Almondsbury, Bristol BS12 4SQ, UNITED KINGDOM. Tel. 0454 616616 x503 email: zenith@inmos.co.uk occam user group * artificial intelligence * special interest group 1st technical meeting of the OUG AISIG This conference is underwritten by INMOS Limited, to whom the organising committee wish to extend their thanks.