nelson@ICS.UCI.EDU (Richard Nelson) (03/05/88)
Although the preliminary announcement was posted to AIList a
couple of months ago, this new announcement lists featured
speakers, planned session topics, and registration info.
Cheers
Richard
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International Conference
on
Symbolic and Logical Computing
Dakota State College Madison, South Dakota
April 21-22,1988
The third International Conference on Symbolic and Logical Computing
(ICEBOL3) will present papers and sessions on many aspects of non-numeric
computing: artificial intelligence, analysis and printing of texts,
machine translation, natural language processing, the use of dangerously
powerful computer languages, SNOBOL4, SPITBOL, Icon, Prolog, and LISP.
There will be a series of concurrent sessions (some for experienced
computer users and others for interested novices).
Coffee breaks, lunches, social hour, and banquet will provide a series
of opportunities for participants to meet informally and exchange
information. Sessions will be scheduled for "Birds of a Feather" to
discuss common interests.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Paul Abrahams, President, Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM), Consultant on Programming and Technical Writing.
BANQUET SPEAKER: Robert Dewar, Courant Institute, New York
University, SPITBOL originator.
OTHER FEATURED SPEAKERS AND PANELISTS:
Ralph Griswold, University of Arizona, author of numerous books
and articles on SNOBOL4 and Icon
Viktors Berstis, Minnesota SNOBOL4 creator
Michael Shafto, author of articles on SNOBOL4 and artificial
intelligence
Mark Emmer, of Catspaw, Inc., creator of SNOBOL4+
Sessions covering the following topics are planned:
Parsing and grammar analysis Tutoring Systems
Machine translation Data conversion
Style analysis Processing and printing
List handling and scheduling special character sets
Natural language processing Multi-thread processing
Cryptography SNOBOL4 heuristics
Icon programming Music analysis
- - - - - - - - - - REGISTRATION FORM - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Dakota State College
International Conference
on
Symbolic and Logical Computing
April 21-22, 1988
Madison, South Dakota 57042
Indicate a number for the following:
____ Advanced registration - $125.00 (includes two lunches, coffee
breaks, banquet, one copy of the proceedings)
on-site registration - $140.0
____ Additional copies of the proceedings ($20.00 each)
____ Additional banquet tickets ($12.00 each)
____ Shuttle from Sioux Falls airport ($25.00 each roundtrip)
(Notify us of date and time of arrival & departure)
TOTAL ENCLOSED $_________
Rental cars are available at the Sioux Falls, SD, airport.
Name __________________________________________________________
College or Firm _______________________________________________
Mailing address _______________________________________________
_______________________________________________
Electronic mail address _______________________________________
Suggested topic for "Birds of a Feather" section:______________
_______________________________________________________________
Please make your own motel reservations at one of the
following:
Super 8 Motel Lake Park Motel DSC Dormitory
(605) 256-6931 (605) 256-3524 (605) 256-5149
Single: $25.00 Single: $23.00 Single: $7.50
Double: $31.00 Double: $30.00 Double: $10.00
Return this form to Eric Johnson
ICEBOL3
114 Beadle Hall
Dakota State College
Madison, SD 57042