[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.
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>> BIO
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>> 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
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Carnegie Mellon University
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