[Intelligence Seminar] April 23, 10:30am:, Presentation by Paul Rosenbloom

Dana Houston dhouston at cs.cmu.edu
Mon Apr 16 08:36:44 EDT 2012


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WE HAVE TWO INTELLIGENCE SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS NEXT WEEK:
   PAUL ROSENBLOOM:    APRIL 23, 10:30AM, IN GHC 6501
   KEVIN LEYTON-BROWN: APRIL 24,  3:30PM, IN GHC 4303
THE ANNOUNCEMENT BELOW IS FOR THE FIRST PRESENTATION
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INTELLIGENCE SEMINAR
APRIL 23 AT 10:30AM, IN GHC 6501
(UNUSUAL DAY, TIME, AND PLACE)

SPEAKER: PAUL ROSENBLOOM (University of Southern California)
Host: Philip Lehman
For meetings, contact June Fischerkeller (jfische at cs.cmu.edu)

TOWARDS A GRAPHICAL COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE FOR VIRTUAL HUMANS (AND
INTELLIGENT AGENTS/ROBOTS)

A cognitive architecture provides a hypothesis about the fixed
structure (and its integration) underlying intelligent behavior,
whether in natural or artificial systems. The overall goal of this
effort is to leverage graphical models with their ability to uniformly
yield state-of-the-art algorithms across symbol, probability, and
signal processing in developing a new architecture that goes
significantly beyond today's best in providing, and tightly
integrating together, the capabilities required for virtual humans
(and intelligent agents/robots). The current focus is on a graphical
mixed (i.e., statistical relational) architecture that supports hybrid
processing through its grounding in a continuous representation.
Aspects of memory, problem solving, perception, imagery, learning, and
natural language have been demonstrated to date in this architecture,
although some are still mere beginnings. The talk will introduce the
desiderata for this graphical architecture, explain the basics of its
operation, and highlight progress on some of these capabilities.

BIO

Paul S. Rosenbloom is a Professor of Computer Science at the
University of Southern California (USC) and a Project Leader at USC's
Institute for Creative Technologies. He spent twenty years at USC's
Information Sciences Institute, including a decade leading new
directions and a stint as Deputy Director. Earlier he was an Assistant
Professor of Computer Science and Psychology at Stanford University,
and a Research Computer Scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. He
received his B.S. in Mathematical Sciences (with distinction) from
Stanford University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from
Carnegie Mellon University. He is a Fellow of the Association for the
Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Prof. Rosenbloom's
research focuses on cognitive architectures; he was a co-PI of the
Soar Project for fifteen years, and is currently developing a new
approach based on graphical models. He has also been working to
understand the nature and structure of computing as a scientific
domain.



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Dana M. Houston
Language Technologies Institute
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Carnegie Mellon University
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