[ACT-R-users] Call for Interest in AAAI Fall 2004 Symposium on "Achieving Human-Level Intelligence through Integrated Systems and Research"

[Nick Cassimatis]

We are seeking expressions of interest in participating in a
AAAI 2004 Fall Symposium on a promising new approach to
artificial intelligence research we call "Achieving
Human-Level Intelligence  through Integrated Systems and
Research".  At the end of this message is a brief
description of the symposium.  If you would potentially be
interested in attending please respond with your name and
affiliation to nc at alum.mit.edu before October 15.  This is
only an expression of interest and there would be no
obligation to participate.  The symposium would take place
in Washington, DC in November of 2004.  We especially hope
to hear from cognitive modelers.

Nick Cassimatis
Patrick Winston


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Achieving Human-Level Intelligence  through Integrated
Systems and Research

Achieving human-level artificial intelligence will require
systems and research to be integrated from not only several
subfields of the artificial intelligence research community,
but from other fields interested in cognition.  We propose
to gather researchers working across the boundaries of their
subfields to explore new computational techniques and
research methodologies for integrating research results to
produce more intelligent systems.

There has been substantial progress in some of the subfields
of Artificial Intelligence during the past three decades,
but the field overall is moving toward increasing subfield
isolation and increasing attention to near-term
applications, retarding progress toward comprehensive
theories and deep scientific understanding, and ultimately,
retarding progress toward developing the science needed for
higher-impact applications.

Some recent trends in artificial intelligence research, for
example cognitive robotics and computer vision research
informed by human visual processing, have begun to reverse
this trend towards fragmentation.  Because the human mind is
both an example of an integrated system that uses multiple
representational and computational techniques and because it
by definition exhibits human-level intelligence, these
researchers have found it useful to look towards fields such
as linguistics, psychology and neuroscience for inspiration
and constraints on their theories.

We propose to gather together researchers interested in
achieving human-level artificial intelligence through
integrated systems and multi-disciplinary research to
discuss recent progress and proposed future work towards
this goal.