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             ACS NSW AISIG - Artificial Intelligence - Monthly Meeting

Date: Wednesday 30th May 2001.

Time: 6:30pm till 8:00pm & dinner afterwards.

Topic: Conceptual Spaces - The Geometry of Thought: A Review

             Peter Gardenfors maintains that AI needs to introduce another
             layer between the connectionist (artificial neural networks,
             etc) and the symbolic levels to make sense of intelligence.
             This talk will outline his ideas on concept formation based
             on geometric spaces and measures. The conceptual spaces
             approach will be related to language development and machine
             learning. Peter Gardenfors is a long standing acquaintance of
             Professor Norman Foo's, who also recently reviewed this book
             in AI Magazine (Spring 2001)

Reference: Peter Gardenfors, Conceptual Spaces - The Geometry of
                                         Thought,   MIT Press, 2000

Speaker: Bernhard Hengst
                     School of Computer Science and Engineering, K17, 3rd
Floor,
                     301 AI Research Lab
                     University of New South Wales, UNSW Sydney 2052
Australia
             email: bernhardh@cse.unsw.edu.au
             Web: http://www.users.bigpond.com/hengst/AIResearch.html

Scope of the Group:
       to maintain and acquire knowledge about the changing focus of
          leading edge research and technology transfer

        Evolutionary programming         Soft computing          Complexity
Biotechnology          Ethics          Privacy            Knowledge
management
                 Networks         Agent technology         Induction
Model-based reasoning     Neuro-Fuzzy         Case Based Reasoning
         Ontologies          Philosophy         Cognition


Place: ACS NSW Offices, 3rd floor PSA House
                        160 Clarence Street, Sydney

       between Market & King Streets, closer to Town Hall than Wynyard
       behind the Bowler's Club.

Contact: Michael Williams (02) 829-62796
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