New Mexico State University
Department of Computer Science

AI Seminar Fall 2002 Schedule

Time: Monday 12:30-1:20 pm
Place: Science Hall 124


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Fall 2002
Speaker


Topic                                             Time: Monday 12:30-1:20 pm





08/19/02
Melanie Martin
Organizing meeting
08/26/02
Karen Villaverde

Efficient OR-Parallel Execution of Prolog Programs on Distributed Memory Platforms ( Abstract )
09/09/02


No seminar
09/16/02
Dan Tappan

Toward Automated Scene Generation from Textual Descriptions ( Abstract )
09/23/02
Inna Pivkina

Revision programming (Abstract )
09/30/02
Don Birx

A Complex Systems Approach to Agent Modeling and Decision Making for the Purposes of Predicting Behaviors and likely Scenarios for Unusual Events, and the best Leveraged Response for Control and Redirection ( Abstract )
10/07/02 Inna Pivkina

Revision programming II
10/14/02 Melanie Martin

Introduction to Latent Semantic Analysis (Abstract )(Slides , ppt)
10/28/02
Peter Foltz

Applications of Latent Semantic Analysis ( Abstract )
11/4/02
Oliver  Hampton

Machine Learning in Bioinformatics: An Overview of Hidden Markov Models and PCAPSS (Abstract )
11/11/02
Wirt Atmar

Speculation on the evolution of intelligence and its possible realization in machine form. (Abstract )
11/18/02
Wirt Atmar

Speculation on the evolution of intelligence and its possible realization in machine form, part 2. ( Abstract )
11/25/02
Nemecio
Chavez

Case-Based Reasoning: Reasoning by Experience ( Abstract ) (Slides )
12/02/02
Stephen Helmreich

MOQA : Meaning Oriented Question Answering ( Abstract )

 






Monday 1:30-2:20 pm

Spring 2002
Speaker
Topic




01/14/02
Melanie Martin
Organizing meeting - Survey Results
01/28/02
Heather Pfeiffer
& Roger Hartley

Data Models for Conceptual Structures (Abstract )
02/04/02
Heather Pfeiffer
& Roger Hartley

Data Models for Conceptusl Structures, cont'd
02/11/02
Heather Pfeiffer
& Roger Hartley

Data Models for Conceptusl Structures, cont'd (slides: pdf , ppt )
02/18/02
Tom O'Hara

Overview of Cyc (Knowledge Base and Inference Engine)
Slides (pdf | ppt | html )
02/25/02
Tom O'Hara

Thematic roles in Cyc versus Conceptual Structures
Slides ( pdf | ppt | html )
03/04/02 Dan Tappan
Intelligent Agents
03/11/02 Dan Tappan
Intelligent Agent discussion continues
03/18/02
Dan Tappan

Intelligent Agent discussion continues
Chito's problem for discussion
04/01/02
Nemecio Chavez

Inheritance Theory ( Abstract , pdf paper )
04/08/02
Nemecio Chavez

Inheritance Theory continued ( slides )
04/15/02
Mia Kalish

Bleeding Edge Teaching Technologies: Pushing the Envelope of the Language-Graphics Interface ( Abstract )
04/22/02
Nemecio Chavez

Inheritance Theory continued ( slides )
04/29/02
Al Rodriguez

Language of Mi (LOM), a spoken computer language





Fall 2001
Speaker

Topic




08/22/01
Melanie Martin
Organizing meeting
08/29/01
Melanie Martin

Identifying Ideological Point of View
09/05/01
Melanie Martin

Identifying Ideological Point of View
09/12/01
Nemecio Chavez

The Egg Cracking Problem
Abstract , Slides (pdf)
09/19/01
Nemecio Chavez

Egg Cracking Problem Continued 
09/26/01
Discussion

Story  
10/03/01 Dan Tappan
Reasoning in Natural Language Processing
10/10/01 Heather Pfeiffer
Wolves and Rabbits
10/17/01
Don Dearholt

The Cumulative Consensus of Cognitive Agents:
A Learning Algorithm for Structures in Semantic Memory
Abstract
10/24/01
Jing He

Structural and Computational Biology: 
A Multidisciplinary Approach (Abstract)
10/31/01
Tim Jones

Aggie Intelligence ( Slides)
11/07/01
Discussion lead by
Roger Hartley

Intelligence without representation by Brooks
Alternate Essences of Intelligence by Brooks, et.al.
11/14/01
Jason Robey

PSL Agent Modeling Group
11/28/01
Joseph Pfeiffer

Visual Languages, Mobile Robots, and Uncertainty ( Abstract )
12/05/01
Carlos Gomez Gallo

MARINA: A Conversational Agent ( Abstract )(slides )

 




Citation for story we are reading:

      Supertoys Last All Summer Long and Other Stories of Future Time
      by Brian Aldiss
      New York: St. Martin's Griffin, June 2001

      The story that inspired the movie AI


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