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The final meeting for 1999.
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ACS NSW AISIG - Artificial Intelligence - Monthly Meeting

Date: Wednesday 24th November 1999.

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


Topic: The Next Revolution

Theme: Our society is described as post-industrial, ie, it is later than
                 the Industrial Revolution, and we can think of ourselves as
in
                 the Electronic or Information Revolution although we cannot
see
                 what defines that societal or economic change which
identifies
                 it to history, like the Industrial and Agrian Revolutions.

      So what do you see as that next change or what might describe the
                 aftermath.  Will robots replace human workers?  Do we
redefine
                 and manipulate our own shape and function?  Maybe nothing
will
                 happen at all.  We have seen books and reports forecasting
the
                 future, are they right, or horribly wrong?


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 NSW Bowler's Club.


Contact: Michael Williams 9744-4759 (work)
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