[comp.ai.digest] Conference - 22nd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition

Anurag.Acharya@CENTRO.SOAR.CS.CMU.EDU (05/01/88)

The 22nd Carnegie Symposium on Cognition will be on the topic of 
Architectures for Intelligence.  Talks will be in the Adamson wing,
as usual.  Inclosed is a schedule.  Contact Kurt VanLehn or Elaine
Benjamin (x4964, VanLehn@psy.cmu.edu) for more information.

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Monday, May 16

8:30  Coffee

8:45  Welcome -- David Klahr, Head, Psychology Department

9:00  John Laird (U. Michigan), Allen Newell (CMU), Paul Rosenbloom (ISI
      "Towards completing the Soar architecture"

10:00 Coffee

10:15 Michael Genesereth (Stanford) -- "Deliberate agents"

11:15 Barbara Hayes-Roth (Stanford) -- "Making intelligent systems adapt

12:15 Lunch

1:30  Tom Mitchell (CMU) -- "Theo: A framework for constructing
      self-improving systems."

2:30  Rodney Brooks (MIT) -- "How to build creatures rather than
      isolated cognitive imitators."

3:30  Coffee

3:45  Jamie Carbonell (CMU) -- TBA

4:45  Bill Clancey (Xerox IRL) -- "Intelligent architectures and knowledge
engineering: A commentary"

5:45  Adjourn

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Tuesday, May 17

8:45  Coffee

9:00  John Anderson (CMU) "The status of cognitive architectures
      in a rational analysis"

10:00 Coffee

10:15 Kurt VanLehn (CMU) "Flexibility and robustness in
      the execution of cognitive procedures"

11:15 Geoff Hinton (Toronto) "The transition from serial to
      parallel processing in a connectionist network"

12:15 Lunch

1:30  Walter Schneider and William Oliver (LRDC) -- "An instructable
      connectionist/control architecture: Using rule based instructions
      accomplish connectionist learning in a human time scale."


2:30  Jay McClelland (CMU) -- "Nature, nurture and connections:
      Explorations in network architecture"

3:30  Coffee

3:45  Zenon Pylyshyn (W. Ontario) -- "Architectures and strong equivalence
      A commentary"

4:45  Adjourn