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AIList-REQUEST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU (AIList Moderator Nick Papadakis) (05/25/88)

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From: ALFONSEC at EMDCCI11 (EARN, Manuel Alfonseca)
To:   AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU at EDU
Ref:  Free will et al.

Previous appends have stated that all values are learned.
I believe that some are innate. For instance, the
crudest form of the justice value
  "Why should I receive less than (s)he?"
seems to exist in babies as soon as they can perceive
and before anybody has tried to teach them.

Any comments? How does this affect free will in AI?

Regards,

Manuel Alfonseca, ALFONSEC at EMDCCI11
Usual disclaimer: My opinions are my own.

Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (07/18/88)

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In a previous article, YLIKOSKI@FINFUN.BITNET writes:
}Thus, it would seem that in order for us to see true commonsense
}knowledge exhibited by a program we need:
}
}        * a vast amount of knowledge involving the world of a person
}          in virtual memory.  The knowledge involves gardening,
}          Buddhism, the emotions of an ordinary person and so forth -
}          its amount might equal a good encyclopaedia.

Actually, it would probably put the combined text of several good encyclopedias
to shame.  Even encyclopedias and dictionaries leave out a lot of "common-sense"
information.

The CYC project at MCC is a 10-year undertaking to build a large knowledge 
base of real world facts, heuristics, and methods for reasoning over the 
knowledge base.[1]  The current phase of the project is to carefully represent 
400 articles from a one-volume encyclopedia.  They expect their system to 
contain about 10,000 frames once they've encoded the 400 articles, about half 
of them common-sense concepts.


[1] CYC: Using Common Sense Knowledge to Overcome Brittleness and Knowledge 
Acquisition Bottlenecks, AI Magazine v6 #4.

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MEIBMDM@GITVM2.BITNET (Deeptendu Majumder) (07/21/88)

Date: Sun, 17 Jul 88 23:37 EDT
From: Deeptendu Majumder <MEIBMDM%GITVM2.BITNET@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
To: AILIST@AI.AI.MIT.EDU

I have been trying to get information about GRAPHAEL GBASE object
oriented system. An address would be a great help.

Thanks
Deeptendu Majumder
Box 30963
Georgia Tech
Atlanta, GA 30332
<MEIBMDM @ GITVM2>

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      The 6th Scandinavian Conference on Image Analysis
      =================================================

      June 19 - 22, 1989
      Oulu, Finland

      Second Call for Papers



      INVITATION TO 6TH SCIA

      The 6th Scandinavian Conference on Image  Analysis   (6SCIA)
      will  be arranged by the Pattern Recognition Society of Fin-
      land from June 19 to June 22, 1989. The conference is  spon-
      sored  by the International Association for Pattern Recogni-
      tion. The conference will be held at the University of Oulu.
      Oulu is the major industrial city in North Finland, situated
      not far from the Arctic Circle. The conference  site  is  at
      the Linnanmaa campus of the University, near downtown Oulu.

      CONFERENCE COMMITTEE

      Erkki Oja, Conference Chairman
      Matti Pietik{inen, Program Chairman
      Juha R|ning, Local organization Chairman
      Hannu Hakalahti, Exhibition Chairman

      Jan-Olof Eklundh, Sweden
      Stein Grinaker, Norway
      Teuvo Kohonen, Finland
      L. F. Pau, Denmark

      SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM

      The program will  consist  of  contributed  papers,  invited
      talks  and special panels.  The contributed papers will cov-
      er:

              * computer vision
              * image processing
              * pattern recognition
              * perception
              * parallel algorithms and architectures

      as well as application areas including

              * industry
              * medicine and biology
              * office automation
              * remote sensing

      There will be invited speakers on the following topics:

      Industrial Machine Vision
      (Dr. J. Sanz, IBM Almaden Research Center)

      Vision and Robotics
      (Prof. Y. Shirai, Osaka University)

      Knowledge-Based Vision
      (Prof. L. Davis, University of Maryland)

      Parallel Architectures
      (Prof. P. E. Danielsson, Link|ping University)

      Neural Networks in Vision
      (to be announced)

      Image Processing for HDTV
      (Dr. G. Tonge, Independent Broadcasting Authority).

      Panels will be organized on the following topics:

      Visual Inspection in the  Electronics  Industry  (moderator:
      prof. L. F. Pau);
      Medical Imaging (moderator: prof. N. Saranummi);
      Neural Networks and Conventional  Architectures  (moderator:
      prof. E. Oja);
      Image Processing Workstations (moderator: Dr.  A.  Kortekan-
      gas).

      SUBMISSION OF PAPERS

      Authors are invited to submit four  copies  of  an  extended
      summary of at least 1000 words of each of their papers to:

              Professor Matti Pietik{inen
              6SCIA Program Chairman
              Dept. of Electrical Engineering
              University of Oulu
              SF-90570 OULU, Finland

              tel +358-81-352765
              fax +358-81-561278
              telex 32 375 oylin sf
              net scia@steks.oulu.fi

      The summary should contain sufficient  detail,  including  a
      clear description of the salient concepts and novel features
      of the work.  The deadline for submission  of  summaries  is
      December  1, 1988. Authors will be notified of acceptance by
      January 31st, 1989 and final camera-ready papers will be re-
      quired by March 31st, 1989.

      The length of the final paper must not exceed 8  pages.  In-
      structions  for  writing the final paper will be sent to the
      authors.

      EXHIBITION

      An exhibition is planned.  Companies  and  institutions  in-
      volved  in  image analysis and related fields are invited to
      exhibit their products at demonstration stands,  on  posters
      or video. Please indicate your interest to take part by con-
      tacting the Exhibition Committee:

              Matti Oikarinen
              P.O. Box 181
              SF-90101 OULU
              Finland

              tel. +358-81-346488
              telex 32354 vttou sf
              fax. +358-81-346211

      SOCIAL PROGRAM

      A social program will be arranged,  including  possibilities
      to  enjoy  the  location  of the conference, the sea and the
      midnight sun. There  are  excellent  possibilities  to  make
      post-conference  tours  e.g.  to Lapland or to the lake dis-
      trict of Finland.

      The social program will consist of a get-together  party  on
      Monday June 19th, a city reception on Tuesday June 20th, and
      the conference Banquet on Wednesday June 21st. These are all
      included  in the registration fee. There is an extra fee for
      accompanying persons.

      REGISTRATION INFORMATION

      The registration fee will be 1300  FIM  before  April  15th,
      1989  and 1500 FIM afterwards. The fee for participants cov-
      ers:  entrance  to  all  sessions,  panels  and  exhibition;
      proceedings; get-together party, city reception, banquet and
      coffee breaks.

      The fee is payable by
              - check made out to 6th SCIA and mailed to the
                Conference Secretariat; or by
              - bank transfer draft account or
              - all major credit cards

      Registration forms, hotel information and  practical  travel
      information  are  available from the Conference Secretariat.
      An information package will be sent to authors  of  accepted
      papers by January 31st, 1989.

      Secretariat:
              Congress Team
              P.O. Box 227
              SF-00131 HELSINKI
              Finland
              tel. +358-0-176866
              telex 122783 arcon sf
              fax +358-0-1855245

      There will be hotel rooms available for  participants,  with
      prices  ranging  from  135 FIM (90 FIM) to 430 FIM (270 FIM)
      per night for a single room (double room/person).