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Los Angeles (LA) Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Technical Activity Committee on Artificial Intelligence (TACART)

  It is with regret that I announce the likely demise of
TACART. Over the past several years, during which we
have had a number of wonderful meetings, TACART has been
steered mostly by Barney Toma (Program Chair), Stephanie August
(Arrangements and our faculty contact at LMU) and by me (Chair,
publicity). Unfortunately, Barney needs to spend more time on
his business, Stephanie is a mother of five with two jobs, and
I have had fairly severe medical problems since about January.
We would need a real infusion of additional volunteer effort
to keep TACART going. However, the LA Chapter of ACM will no doubt
cooperate n sponsoring AI talks at their usual venue if there are 
particular speakers/talks you would like to propose.
Email and Telephone contacts follow.
L. Andrew Campbell campbell@aero.org (310) 545-5845 
Barney Toma tomab@ecn.com (310) 323-8451

As a final note, here is the schedule of talks we held
during the last activity year (September - May).

97-98 TACART schedule:

Date			Speaker, affiliation, title

17 Sep 1997	Dr. Wei-Min Shen, USC
		YODA and Dreamteam:
		Robots that Perform Human Tasks
15 Oct 1997	Prof. Craig Knoblock, USC ISI
		Mediators and Agents for Integrating and
		Managing Data from Internet Sources
19 Nov 1997	Dr. Chris Landauer, Aerospace
		Generic Programming, Partial Evaluation,
		and a New Programming Paradigm
03 Dec 1997	Prof. Richard Korf, UCLA
		Finding Optimal Solutions to Rubik's Cube
21 Jan 1998	Prof. Stefan Schaal, USC
		Robot Learning: The Next Generation
19 Feb 1998	Prof. Daniel O'Leary, USC
		Verification and Validation of
		Knowledge Bases and Expert Systems
18 Mar 1998	Dr. Ksenia Kolcio, TRW
		Model Based Fault Management
		From Laboratory to Space
15 Apr 1998	Prof. Albeer Alwan, UCLA
		Models of Speech Perception
		and their Applications
20 May 1998	Dr. Ingemar Hulthage, Contrywide Home Loans
                CAPES: the Countrywide Automatic
                Property Evaluation System

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