E1AR0002@SMUVM1.BITNET (Leff, Southern Methodist University) (07/12/87)
Summary of Canadian Artificial Intellgience, July 1987, No. 12
Discussion of the Canadian Governments research initiative.
The Canadian AI Conference for 1988 will be June 6-10, 1988 in Edmonton.
It will be held simultaneously with the Canadian Image Processing and Pattern
Recognition Society and Canadian Man-Computer Communications Society
meetings.
Jose A. Ambros_Ingerson of University of California, Irvine is collecting
info re AI applications and efforts in Third World Countries.
Canada is setting up a research consortium for AI and robotics.
This is similar to MCC and other efforts in that companies produce
research that they all can use before competitive additions and
applications are made.
There was a report on the National Meeting of the Fifth Generation Society.
There are a variety of research infrastructures in Canada involving
joint industry-academic type efforts.
New bindings:
Nick Cercone will be Director of the Centre for Systems Science at
Simon Fraser University.
Randy Goebel is now at the University of Alberta.
Brian Schaefer, Beverly Smith, Ian Morrison and Julian Siegel are now
at Acquired Intelligence, 2304 Epworth Street, Victoria B. C. V8R 5L2.
Report on Research at University of Toronto:
Hector Levesque and Ray Reiter are working on formal foundations of
knowledge-based systems.
John Mylopoulos is working on AI applications to software engineering
and databases.
Russ Greiner on learning by analogy.
Effort to develop an autonomous vision-guided robot.
Interpretation of Remotely Sensed Images, e. g. from satellites.
Applications include river or lake ice measurements and interpreting
weather data for storm forecasting
Knowledge Based Debugging system based on MRS.
Reviews of "Robotics Research: The Third International Symposium"
New Horizons in Educational Computing by Masoud Yazdani
The Mathematics of Inheritance Systems by David S. Touretsky
Robotics and Ai: An Introduction to Applied Machine Intelligence
by Andrew C. Staugaard.
Abstracts of papers in Computational Intelligence and some
AI Technical Reports.
Report on the recent CHI+GI+87 conference on Computer Human Interactions
and Graphical Interfaces.