IEE Colloquia

[N.Sharkey@dcs.shef.ac.uk]

IEE COLLOQUIUM IN LONDON, UK

SYMBOLIC AND NEURAL COGNITIVE ENGINEERING

Colloquium organised by Professional Group C4 (Artificial intelligence)
of the Institute of Electical Engineers (IEE) to be held at Savoy Place on
Monday, 14 February 1994

PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME

	9.30 am 	Registration and coffee

	Chairman:	Professor I Aleksander (Imperial College)

	10.00	Chairman's introduction

1	10.10	A review of cognitive symbolic engineering:
		Professor B Richards (Imperial College)

2	10.40	The interplay of symbolic and adaptive techniques:
		R Garigliano and D J Nettleton (University of Durham)

3	11.10	Engineering cognitive systems - some conceptual issues:
		R Paton (University of Liverpool)

4	11.40	Variable binding in a neural network using a distributed 
                representation:
		A Browne and J Pilkington (South Bank University)

	12.10	LUNCH

5	1.30	Connectionist advances in natural language processing:
		Professor N Sharkey (University of Sheffield)

6	2.00	Systematicity and generalisation in connectionist models:
		L F Niklasson (University of Exeter)

7	2.30	Hierarchical symbolic structures and knowledge chunking:
		B K Purhoit (BT Laboratories) and J F Boyce (King's College London)

	3.00	TEA

8	3.15	Relational computing:
		Professor J Taylor (King's College London)

9	3.45	The research challenge for symbolic and neural approaches: 
		Professor I Aleksander (Imperial College)



	4.15	Discussion

	4.45	CLOSE

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OTHER EVENTS ORGANISED BY THE 
COMPUTING AND CONTROL DIVISION TO BE HELD FEBRUARY 1994



1 Tue	Colloquium on High performance applications of parallel 	PG C2
		architectures

7 Mon	Colloquium on Intelligent front-ends for existing systems	PG C4

10 Thur	11TH COMPUTING AND CONTROL LECTURE
		Out of control into systems engineering research?
		By Professor C J Harris (University of Southampton)

21 Mon	Colloquium on Modelling of controlled natural energy 	PG C6
		systems
 
23 Wed	Colloquium on Vehicle diagnostics in Europe		PG C12

24 Thur	Colloquium on Implications of the new legislation on 	PG C5
		work with display screen equipment

28 Mon	Colloquium on Molecular bioinformatics			PG C4
		Joint meeting with PAPAGENA



Further details of the above events can be obtained from the
Secretary, LS(D)CA, IEE, Savoy Place, London WC2R 0BL or by
telephoning 071 240 1871 Ext: 2206