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

[Dana Houston]

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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)
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> SPEAKER: PAUL ROSENBLOOM (University of Southern California)
> Host: Philip Lehman
> For meetings, contact June Fischerkeller (jfische at cs.cmu.edu)
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> TOWARDS A GRAPHICAL COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURE FOR VIRTUAL HUMANS (AND
> INTELLIGENT AGENTS/ROBOTS)
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> 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
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
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