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THE LABORATORY FOR EXTENDED MEDIA, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Victoria
presents the final guest of IMAGE*SOUND*TEXT, an Arts and Technology Symposium

			*****   MARVIN MINSKY   *****

a pioneer of artificial intelligence, whose contributions as a
scientist and author have been instrumental in the way we use and think
about computers and the workings of the human mind.  Professor at MIT.

	Lecture  David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
	8 pm, Monday, February 22

	Lansdowne Lecture:  "Toward the Development of Emotion Machines	"
	David Lam Auditorium, MacLaurin Bldg.
	8 pm, Tuesday, February 22

	ABSTRACT of Lansdowne Lecture:

We need to learn how to build thinking machines in order to make our robots 
more versatile, to make better models of human psychology, and to develop 
useful new forms of reasoning.  Each of the methods used in present-day AI 
research works well in certain environments -- but none of them show the 
flexibility and resourcefulness that we see in the higher animals.  It seems 
to me that our ideas about thinking are still unnecessarily primitive.  I 
suspect that this may in part be due to excessive concern with obsolete 
philosophical issues.  

I will argue that it should not be very hard to make better computational 
theories about the machinery involved with such feelings as desire and fear; 
surprise, curiosity and boredom; pleasure and pain; and attachment, pride, 
shame and guilt.  I will try to show how these could play important roles in 
building more versatile thinking machines.

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CONTACT

Dr. W. Andrew Schloss (School of Music) 
Faculty of Fine Arts
University of Victoria
Victoria BC CANADA V8W 2Y2
(604) 721-7756
email: aschloss@nero.uvic.ca

	These events form part of the University of Victoria's 90/30 
			Anniversary year celebrations.