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Subject: Symposium on Computational Approaches to Scientific Discovery
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Computational Approaches to Scientific Discovery
Stanford University; January 7-8, 1989
Scientific discovery stands as a major open issue in Cognitive Science.
What are the conditions for discovery and what knowledge is brought to
bear? What roles are played by experimentation, observation,
instrumentation, and culture in the discovery process? How are
important discoveries noticed and how are they transmitted?
Recently, significant progress has been made in the computational
understanding of scientific discovery. In order to bring together the
principal researchers in this field, and so move closer to a unified
theory of scientific reasoning and discovery, a symposium on this topic
will be held at Stanford University on January 7 (Saturday) and January
8 (Sunday), 1989. The symposium will cross several methodological
boundaries, including Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and
Philosophy of Science, and will cover a variety of scientific domains.
Presentations will be through invitation, but to ensure participation by
researchers without `contacts' and from a broad range of related fields,
a small number of additional attendees will be invited. The ideal
participant will have developed and tested (by implementation,
experiment, etc.) a computational theory of scientific reasoning,
preferably emphasizing some aspect of discovery. These might include:
* Mechanisms of theory formation
* Prediction and causal reasoning
* Experimentation and instrument construction
* The organization of scientific information
* Sociological and cultural issues
* Unified models of discovery
Applicants should send a short research summary (**maximum** of two
pages) describing their research efforts and interests in scientific
reasoning or discovery to the program co-chair (see notes below) by:
>> OCTOBER 15, 1988 <<
Program co-Chairs:
Jeff Shrager
Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Rd.
Palo Alto, CA
94304
Shrager@Xerox.com
Phone: 415/494-4338
Pat Langley
University of California at Irvine
langley@CIP.UCI.EDU
[Please direct queries and applications to Jeff Shrager. Applications
*must* be submitted in HARDCOPY via U.S.Mail (or in person). Other
queries may be made by netmail, telephone, in writing, or in person.]