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Ninth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-97)
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/ai97)
in tandem with:
Irish Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing (IMVIP-97)
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/imvip97)
AI IN "CRISIS" ?
Has the field been in `crisis'? --- some argue we've been in the
wilderness with no breakthroughs for decades except minor shifts
towards connectionism and neural networks, artificial life, data
collection/corpora, and hybrid systems. Others say the move towards
integration (e.g. Intelligent MultiMedia integrating
language/vision), PersonKommunikation, mobile and remote computing,
more and more engineering and a focus on the significance or otherwise
of the self, mind and consciousness is emphasizing the successes of
AI...
Ireland hosts AI conferences usually annually since 1988. This ninth
AI-97 conference will continue the tradition of emphasising
presentations of Irish and International original research in all
areas of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science including
Computer Science, Psychology, Linguistics, Philosophy, Neuroscience
and related disciplines on the obvious problems of speech, NLP, and
vision processing, robotics, learning, reasoning, knowledge
representation and mobile/remote computing. Papers which address
whether or not the field has been in `crisis' and its
failures/successes are particularly welcome!
Ever since George Boolean Logic (Cork), James Joyce's advances on
streams-of-consciousness (see Dennett's Joycean machine), Claude
Shannon found Information Theory and John McCarthy made LISP and gave
the field its name (Dartmouth, US, 1956) we have been into Artificial
Intelligence.
Ninth Ireland Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AI-97)
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/ai97)
Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland
THURSDAY 11th - SATURDAY 13th SEPTEMBER 1997
IN TANDEM WITH IMVIP-97:
"Irish Conference on Machine Vision and Image Processing"
(WEDNESDAY 10TH - SATURDAY 13th SEPTEMBER 1997)
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/imvip97)
FOLLOWING AI-97:
"MIND-II:
Computational Models of Creative Cognition"
MONDAY 15TH - WEDNESDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER 1997
(Dublin City University)
(www.compapp.dcu.ie/~tonyv/mind.html)
AI-97/IMVIP-97 PLENARY LIVE FEED
It is intended that the main plenary sessions at AI/IMVIP go out on
streaming video and audio, stored and live with the possibility of
phone-in questions (Ted Leath, Magee College)
AI-97 CONFIRMED INVITED PLENARY SPEAKERS
*** John McCarthy ***
Department of Computer Science
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, US
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JOHN MCCARTHY entitled this field "Artificial Intelligence" at
Dartmouth, US in 1956. He works on the formalization of common sense
knowledge and reasoning in mathematical logic. His contributions to
this field include the situation calculus, the circumscription method
of nonmonotonic reasoning and formalization of contexts. Much of the
work is described in his "Formalizing Common Sense", Ablex 1990. He
is Professor of Computer Science at Stanford University. He has also
worked in other areas of computer science and computer engineering,
e.g. Lisp, time-sharing and program verification.
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*** Walther Von Hahn ***
Department of Computer Science
University of Hamburg, GERMANY, EU
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WALTHER VON HAHN is the Father of Natural Language Processing
in Germany and has supervised a number of important figures in the field.
Dr. phil. (German linguistics) Univ. of Marburg 1969
1988 - Professor of Computer Science University of Hamburg.
1976 - 87 Professor of Linguistics Univ. of HH,
Research fields: Natural Language, Discourse, Machine Translation,
Artificial Intelligence.
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*** Naoyuki Okada ***
Department of Computer Science
Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, JAPAN
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NAOYUKI OKADA is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence at Kyushu
Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan. His research interest is in
the development of agents with integrated intelligence: language
association with mind, symbol grounding in perception or motion,
fusion of intellect and emotion, and integrated processing of
MultiMedia. He has actively published unique papers in these areas.
He was leader of the working group of systematizing science of
knowledge subordinate to Science Council of Japan. Okada is trustee of
Japanese Society for Artificial Intelligence, member of the editorial
board of Artificial Intelligence Review Journal and president of
PACLING (Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics).
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IMVIP-97 CONFIRMED INVITED SPEAKERS
*** James Crowley ***
Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)
Grenoble, France, EU
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JAMES L. CROWLEY holds the post of Professor at the Institut National
Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG), France. He teaches courses in
Artificial Intelligence, Machine Vision, Robotics and Signal
Processing at l'Ecole National Superieure d'Informatique et de
Mathematiques Appliques (ENSIMAG). He is coordinator of the European
Computer Vision Network (ECVnet), an EC "Network of Excellence" as well
as the DG-XII Human Capital and Mobility network SMART whose subject
is the development of techniques for a mobile autonomous surveillance
robot. Professor Crowley served as the technical coordinator of
project ESPRIT basic research project EP 7108, "Vision as Process"
from 1989 to 1995. The VAP Project developed active vision heads,
model architectures for real time continuously operating computer
vision systems, and a theory of control of perception. In the area of
mobile robotics, Professor Crowley has developed systems for world
modeling and navigation using computer vision and ultrasonic range
sensors. Versions of these systems are used commercially by Denning
Mobile Robotics, and Helpmate Robotics. Professor Crowley has
published two books, two special issues of journals, and over 100
articles on vision and mobile robotics.
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*** Anil Jain ***
Department of Computer Science
Michigan State University, US
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ANIL JAIN is a University Distinguished Professor and Chair of the
Department of Computer Science at Michigan State University, US. His
research interests include statistical pattern recognition, Markov
random fields, texture analysis, neural networks, fingerprint
matching, document image analysis and 3D object recognition. He was
the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and
Machine Intelligence (1991-94) and currently serves as an Associate
Editor of Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, IEEE
Trans. Neural Networks, Applied Intelligence and J. of Mathematical
Imaging and Vision. He is the co-author of Algorithms for Clustering
Data, Prentice-Hall, 1988, has edited the book Real-Time Object
Measurement and Classification, Springer-Verlag, 1988, and co-edited
the books, Analysis and Interpretation of Range Images,
Springer-Verlag, 1989, Markov Random Fields, Academic Press, 1992,
Artificial Neural Networks and Pattern Recognition, Elsevier, 1993,
and 3D Object Recognition, Elsevier, 1993. He was elected a Fellow of
the IEEE in 1991 and received a Fulbright research fellowship in 1997.
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*** Jean-Christophe Olivo ***
Cell Biophysics Programme
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Heidelberg, Germany, EU
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JEAN-CHRISTOPHE OLIVO is currently a staff research scientist in the
Cell Biophysics Programme at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
in Heidelberg, Germany where he is in charge of developing image
processing methods for biological image analysis. He holds a M.Sc.
degree in Optical Science and Signal Processing, and a Ph.D. degree in
Optical Science, both from the Institut d'Optique Theorique et
Appliquee, University of Paris-Orsay, France. He is a member of SPIE
and IEEE. His research interests are in image processing and computer
vision with special emphasis in automatic segmentation,
multiresolution processing and movement.
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AI-97 CHAIRS
Fionn Murtagh
University of Ulster, Magee College, Northern Ireland
Paul Mc Kevitt
Aalborg University, Denmark &
University of Sheffield, England
LOCATION
Faculty of Informatics
University of Ulster, Magee College
Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland
HOSTED BY 2
Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland (AI)
and
Faculty of Informatics
University of Ulster, Magee College
IN COOPERATION WITH
The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence
and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)
British Computer Society (BCS)
The Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
British Council
Interactive Systems Centre
N/Irl Industrial Development Board (IDB)
N/Irl Tourist Board
International Fund for Ireland (IFI)
The Cognitive Science Society of Ireland (CSSI)
Irish Computer Society
Higher Education Authority (HEA)
Irish Research Scientists Association (IRSA)
Royal Irish Academy
Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (DIAS)
Irish Linguistics Institute (ILI)
National Centre for Language Technology (NCLT)
Localisation Resources Centre
National Microelectronics Research Centre (NMRC)
FORF/AS
Forbairt
Industrial Development Authority (IDA)
Irish Trade Board
Shannon Development
Bord Failte Eireann
WEST
Nua
Telecom Eireann
ESAT Digiphone
The Irish Emigrant
The IE Professional
European Language Observatory
IntelliMedia 2000+
NOKIA
ERICSSON
AI-97 PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
W. Brian Arthur (Sante Fe Institute, US)
Afzal Ballim (LITH, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Bill Barry (University of Sarbruecken, Germany)
David Bell (University of Ulster, Jordanstown)
Lynne Bowker (Dublin City University)
Mike Brady (INRIA, Sofia-Antipolis, France &
Oxford University, England)
Derek Bridge (University College Cork)
John Campbell (University College London)
Jon Campbell (University of Ulster, Magee College)
Arthur Cater (University College Dublin)
William J. Clancey (IRL, Menlo Park, US)
Norman Creaney (University of Ulster, Coleraine)
Roddy Cowie (Queen's University Belfast)
James Crowley (INPG, Grenoble, France)
Jon Doyle (Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), US)
Tim Finin (University of Maryland)
James Flanagan (Rutgers University, US)
Peter Fleming (University of Sheffield, England)
Terry Fogarty (Napier University, Scotland)
Eugene Gath (University of Limerick)
Niall Graham (University of Alabama at Huntsville)
Niall Griffith (University of Limerick)
Jerry Harper (St. Patrick's College, Maynooth)
Pat Hayes (University of West Florida, US)
Phil Hayes (Carnegie Group Inc. &
Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), US)
Mary Hegarty (University of California, Santa Barbara, US)
Matthew Hennessy (University of Sussex, England)
Victor Johnson (New Mexico State University, US)
John Kinsella (University of Limerick)
John Hughes (University of Ulster, Jordanstown)
Eoghan Mac Aogain (Irish Linguistics Institute)
Ronan MacLaverty (Nokia Research Centre, Finland)
Mike Manthey (Aalborg University, Denmark)
James Martin (University of Colorado, US)
John McCarthy (Stanford University, US)
John McDermid (University of York, England)
John McDermott (Ellora Software Inc., US)
Jim McDonald (New Mexico State University, US)
Tony McEnery (Lancaster University, England)
Henry McLaughlin (University College Dublin)
Barry McMullin (Dublin City University & Sante Fe Institute, US)
Mike McTear (University of Ulster, Jordanstown)
Melanie Mitchell (Sante Fe Institute, US)
Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), US)
Alex Monaghan (Dublin City University)
Noel Murphy (Dublin City University)
MURPHY (University of Sheffield, England)
Paddy Nixon (Trinity College Dublin)
Diarmuid O Donoghue (St. Patrick's College, Maynooth)
Se/an /O Nuall/ain (Dublin City University)
Sean O Scanlan (University College Dublin)
Douglas O Shaughnessy (INRS-Telecom, University of Quebec, Canada)
Tim O Shea (The Open University)
J. Ross Quinlan (University of Sydney, Australia)
Ronan Reilly (University College Dublin)
Michael Ryan (Dublin City University)
Ronan Scaife (Dublin City University)
Murray Shanahan (Queen Mary and Westfield College, London, England)
Noel Sheehy (Queen's University Belfast)
NNoel Sharkey (University of Sheffield, England)
SINEAD (University of Sheffield, England)
Jack Smith (Queen's University Belfast)
Barry Smyth (University College Dublin)
Humphrey Sorensen (University College Cork)
Alistair Sutherland (Dublin City University)
Richard Sutcliffe (University of Limerick)
Josef Van Genabith (Dublin City University)
Tony Veale (Dublin City University)
David Vernon (St. Patrick's College, Maynooth)
Andy Way (Dublin City University)
Gerry Wrixon (NMRC & University College Cork)
CONFERENCE FORMAT:
Our intention is to have as much interaction as possible during the
conference and to stress panel sessions and discussion as much as
formal paper presentations. A plenary session will integrate attempts
at addressing views on whether or not there is a `crisis' in the field.
ATTENDANCE:
We hope to have an attendance between 100-150 people at the conference.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Papers of not more than 8 A4 pages should be submitted by electronic
mail (ASCII plain text + preferably uuencoded compressed postscript)
to Paul Mc Kevitt at pmck@cpk.auc.dk. If you cannot submit your paper
by E-mail please submit three copies to Paul Mc Kevitt by snail mail.
**** Submission Deadline: July 1, 1997
**** Notification Date: August 1, 1997
**** Camera ready Copy: August 14, 1997
PUBLICATION:
Conference notes/preprints will be published. If there is sufficient
interest we will publish a book on the conference.
CONFERENCE CHAIRS:
Fionn Murtagh
Faculty of Informatics
University of Ulster, Magee College
Derry/Londonderry BT48 7JL
NORTHERN IRELAND
Email: fd.murtagh@ulst.ac.uk
FaX: (+44) 1504 375489 (from Republic of Ireland: 080 1504 etc.)
Phone: (+44) 1504 375453
WWW: http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/~fionn
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/ai97)
(http://www.infm.ulst.ac.uk/research/imvip97)
Paul Mc Kevitt
Center for PersonKommunikation (CPK)
Fredrik Bajers Vej 7-A2
Institute of Electronic Systems (IES)
Aalborg University
DK- 9220, Aalborg
DENMARK
E-mail: pmck@cpk.auc.dk
FaX: (+45) 98 15 15 83
Phone: (+45) 96 35 86 56
WWW: http://www.cpk.auc.dk/CPK/MMUI
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