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CSLI Calendar, Oct. 22, 3:4


       C S L I   C A L E N D A R   O F   P U B L I C   E V E N T S
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22 October 1987                    Stanford                      Vol. 3, No. 4
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     A weekly publication of The Center for the Study of Language and
     Information, Ventura Hall, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305
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           CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR THIS THURSDAY, 22 October 1987

   12 noon		TINLunch
     Ventura Hall       Reading: "On Language and Connectionism:
     Conference Room  	Analysis of a Parallel Distributed Processing
			Model of Language Acquisition"
			by Steven Pinker and Alan Prince
			Discussion led by Dave Rumelhart
			(der@psych.stanford.edu)
			This TINLunch is a follow up of the seminar
			that was given on 15 October. Please
			see the abstract for it in last week's Calendar.

   2:15 p.m.		CSLI Seminar
     Room G-19          External Language and Internal Representation
     Redwood Hall  	Pat Hayes (Hayes.pa@xerox.com)
			Abstract in last week's Calendar
			
   3:30 p.m.		Tea
     Ventura Hall		

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           CSLI ACTIVITIES FOR NEXT THURSDAY, 29 October 1987

   12 noon		TINLunch
     Ventura Hall       Reading: "Cognitive Significance and New Theories
     Conference Room  	of Reference"
			by John Perry
			Discussion led by Bob Moore
			(bmoore@sri.com)
			Abstract in next week's Calendar

   2:15 p.m.		CSLI Seminar
     Room G-19          An Introduction to Situated Automata
     Redwood Hall  	Part I: Basic Concepts
			Stan Rosenschein (Stan@warbucks.ai.sri.com)
			Abstract below
			
   3:30 p.m.		Tea
     Ventura Hall		

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                           NEXT WEEK'S SEMINAR
                  An Introduction to Situated Automata
                         Part I: Basic Concepts
                            Stan Rosenschein
                               October 29

   This is the first of two lectures on the situated-automata approach to
   the analysis and design of embedded systems.  This approach seeks to
   ground our understanding of embedded systems in a rigorous, objective
   analysis of their informational properties, where information is
   modeled mathematically in terms of correlations between states of the
   system and conditions in the environment. In this talk we motivate the
   general framework, present the central mathematical ideas on how
   information is carried in the states of automata, and relate the
   mathematical properties of the model to key theoretical issues in AI
   including the nature of knowledge, its representation in machines, the
   role of syntactic deduction, "nonmonotonic" reasoning, and the
   relation of knowledge and action.  Some general technological
   implications of the approach, including reduced reliance on
   conventional symbolic inference and increased opportunities for
   parallelism, will be discussed.

   The second lecture will describe the application of the
   situated-automata perspective to specific problems arising in the
   design of integrated intelligent agents, including problems of
   perception, planning and action selection, and linguistic
   communication.

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