Artificial Intelligence

AI Colloquia since 1982



  • 99-00

    Doina Precup
    UMass
    "Options: A framework for temporal abstraction in reinforcement learning"

    Milos Hauskrecht
    Brown
    "Structure-based approaches to large stochastic planning problems"

    William D. Smart
    Brown
    "Getting Learning to Work on Real Robots"

    Weixiong Zhang
    ISI/USC
    "Phase Transitions, Computational Complexity and Flexible Problem Solving"

    Claire Cardie
    Cornell
    "An Empirical Approach to Noun Phrase Coreference for Information Extraction and Text Summarization"

    Rina Dechter (Distinguished Speaker)
    U.C. Irvine
    "Adaptive Time-Space Allocation for Automated Reasoning"

  • 98-99

    Irina Rish
    U.C. Irvine
    "Efficient Reasoning in Graphical Models"

    David Pennock
    U. Michigan
    "Representing and Forming Aggregate Probabilities: From Graphical Models to Market Mechanisms"

    Michael R. Brent
    Johns Hopkins
    "Probabilistic Computational Models of Language Acquisition"

    John Zeleznikow
    La Trobe
    "Knowledge discovery in law"

  • 97-98

    Ana Maguitman
    U. Nac. del Sur
    "Formalization and use of the concept of relevance in logic systems"

    Onn Shehory
    CMU
    "Design of multiagent systems"

    Jon Doyle
    MIT
    (AI Seminar) "Qualitative Preferences"

    Lynn Stein
    MIT
    (AI Seminar) Remarks on TOTO

    Steve Cousins
    Xerox PARC
    "The Digital Library Integrated Task Environment (DLITE)"

    Piotr Gymtrasiewicz
    Texas, Arlington
    TBA

    Craig Boutilier
    UBC
    "The Dynamics of Reinforcement Learning in Cooperative Multiagent Systems"

  • 96-97

    Alberto Segre
    Iowa
    "A Structured Pattern Matching Approach to Shotgun Sequence Assembly"

    Barbara Grosz
    Harvard
    "Modelling Collaboration for Human-Computer Communication"

    Joe Halpern
    Cornell
    "Knowledge and Common Knowledge in Multi-Agent Systems"

    Stu Shapiro
    SUNY Buffalo
    "Use of Deixis by a Computational Cognitive Agent"

  • 95-96

    Stuart Russell
    UC Berkeley
    "Rationality and Intelligence"

    Tuomas Sandholm
    UMass Amherst
    "Negotiation among Computationally Limited Self-Interested Agents"

  • 94-95

    Barry Kalman
    WU
    "State, Fractals and Recurrence"

    Paul Cooper
    Northwestern
    "Causal Scene Understanding: Vision for Action"

    Steve Hanks
    U Washington
    "Three Steps Toward a Decision-Theoretic Planning Agent"

    Georg Dorffner
    U Vienna (AUSTRIA)
    "Categorization and Conceptualization: Aspects of a Neural Network Model"

    Munindar Singh
    MCC
    "Multiagent Systems"

    Curry Guinn
    Duke
    "Improving The Efficiency of Human-Machine Dialog: A Computational Model of Variable Initiative and Negotiation in Collaborative Problem-Solving"

    Keith Decker
    UMass Amherst
    "Environment Centered Coordination in Multiagent Systems"

    Henry Prakken
    Free University Amsterdam (NETHERLANDS)
    "From Logic to Dialectics in Legal Argument"

  • 93-94

    Patrick Hayes
    Illinois
    "How Many Kinds of Representation Are There?"

    Andrew Laine
    Florida
    "Multiscale Wavelet Frames for Image Analysis and Enhancement"

    Steve Lytinen
    DePaul
    "Information Extraction from Natural Language Text"

    Katia Sycara
    CMU
    "The Nature of Negotiation"

    Gerhard Fischer
    Colorado
    "Beyond Human-Computer Interaction: Designing Useful and Usable Computational Environments"

    Claire Cardie
    UMass Amherst
    "Domain-Specific Knowledge Acquisition for Conceptual Sentence Analysis"

    Ethan Munson
    Berkeley
    "The PROTEUS system for multimedia presentation"

    Anne Johnstone
    WU
    "I'm Sorry Dave. I Can't Let You Do That: Speaking to Automated Agents"

  • 92-93

    David Touretzky
    CMU
    "Neural Representation of Space Using Sinusoidal Arrays"

    DSC: Gadi Pinkas
    WU
    "Making Connectionist Networks Logical: Symbolic Knowledge Representation in Connectionist Networks"

    James Allen
    U Rochester
    "A Plan-Based Model of Dialog in The Trains Project"

    Chris Riesbeck
    Northwestern
    "Programs That Can't, Teach: How AI Can Change Education"

    Larry Hunter
    NLM
    "Planning to Discover: Machine Learning, The Internet, and Computational Biology"

    DSC: Nilesh Jain
    WU
    "Preference Acquisition through Reconciliation of Inconsistencies"

    MS: Umesh Berry
    WU
    "A Computational Model for Turn-Taking in Dyadic Telephone Conversations"

    Ronald Loui
    WU
    "Arguments as Games"

    Barry Kalman and Stan Kwasny
    WU
    "It's The Training, Stupid!"

    Anne Johnstone
    WU
    "Simulating and Automating Spoken Dialogue Systems"

  • 91-92

    Dana Ballard
    U Rochester
    "Learning Visual Behaviors"

    Jon Barwise
    Indiana
    "Visual Representations and Valid Reasoning"

    David Touretzky
    CMU
    "Connectionism and Symbol Processing"

    Peter Haddawy
    Wisconsin
    "Representing and Reasoning about Plans under Uncertainty"

    MS: Nilesh Jain
    WU
    "A Decision-Analytic Model for Ranking and Evaluating Radiotherapy Treatment Plans"

    Toomas Timpka
    Linkoeping (SWEDEN)
    "Towards a Pragmatics for Medical Hypermedia Systems"

    Stu Shapiro
    SUNY Buffalo
    "A Natural Language Instructable Actor"

    John Dinsmore
    WU
    "Subproofs in Theorem-Proving"

    Lynn Stein
    MIT
    "Representation and Reactive Systems"

    Carol Strohecker
    Mitsubishi
    "Why Knot?"

    Catherine Marshall
    Xerox PARC
    "Aquanet: Hypertext That Holds Your Knowledge in Place"

    DSC: Rosanne Gamble
    WU
    "Developing Reliable, Concurrent Rule-Based Programs"

    Kevin Ashley
    Pitt
    "Reasoning with Cases in AI"

  • 90-91

    Robert Port
    Indiana
    "Connectionist Models for Auditory Pattern Recognition"

    Hector Geffner
    IBM
    "Reasoning with Defaults: A Unifying View"

    Thorne McCarty
    Rutgers
    "Intuitionistic Logic Programming"

    Larry Harris
    AI Corp.
    "Merging Expert Systems and Natural Language Technology into a High Productivity Programming Language"

    Jon Doyle
    MIT
    "Rational Belief Revision"

    Mark Musen
    Stanford
    "Automated Generation of Custom-Tailored Knowledge-Acquisition Tools"

    John Searle
    UC Berkeley
    "Minds, Brains and Computers"

    Jon Barwise
    Indiana
    "Visual Tools for Problem Solving on The Computer"

  • 89-90

    William Ball
    WU
    "Eleventh IJCAI Videotape Program"

    Robert Allen
    BELLCORE
    "Neural Networks and High-Level Cognition"

    DSC: Guillermo Simari
    WU
    "A Mathematical Treatment of Defeasible Reasoning and Its Implementation"

    Marianne Winslett
    Illinois
    "Updating Logical Databases"

    Jordan Pollack
    Ohio State
    "Recursive Distributed Representations"

    Peter Cheeseman
    NASA
    "On finding The Most Probable Model"

    Hennie Daniels
    Tilburg (NETHERLANDS)
    "Qualitative Methods in Economics"

    DSC: Kanaan Faisal
    WU
    "Connectionist Deterministic Parsing"

    James Allen
    U Rochester
    "It's Time for Planning"

    MS: David Harker
    WU
    "A Financial Planning Expert System"

    Anne Johnstone
    WU
    "Known You'd Tax Us: The Effects of Word Boundary Ambiguity on Parsing Phonemes into Words"

  • 88-89

    Michael Wellman
    WPAFB
    "The Trade-Off Formulation Task in Planning under Uncertainty"

    Kathryn Laskey
    DSC
    "Assumptions, Beliefs and Probabilities"

    Lokendra Shastri
    U Penn
    "Why AI Needs Connectionism? A Representation and Reasoning Perspective"

    Peter Jackson
    McDonnell
    "Diagnosis, Defaults and Abduction"

    Eric Horvitz
    Stanford
    "Computation and Inference under Scarce Resources"

    Mark Drummond
    NASA
    "Planning and Plan Execution"

    Greg Cooper
    Stanford
    "Coping with Computational Complexity in Medical Diagnostic Systems"

    Fahiem Bacchus
    Waterloo (CANADA)
    "Representing and Reasoning with Statistical Knowledge"

    Dana Nau
    Maryland
    "Multi-Goal Planning and Geometric Reasoning for Automated Manufacturing"

    Vipin Kumar
    Texas
    "Parallel Processing of AI Search Problems"

    Johanna Moore
    UCLA/USC
    "A Reactive Approach to Explanation in Expert and Advice-Giving Systems"

    Nigel Goddard
    U Rochester
    "The Interpretation of Visual Motion: Recognizing Moving Light"

    DSC: Andy Laine
    WU
    "High Speed Feature Based Stereo Matching"

  • 87-88

    Michael Williams
    Intellicorp
    "Pragmatics of Integrating Knowledge Bases with Relational Databases"

    Ralph Weishedel
    BBN
    "An Overview of an Extensible Architecture for Natural Language Interfaces"

    MS: Steve Cousins
    WU
    "Grammar-Based Techniques for Interface Design"

    Michael Kahn
    Stanford
    "Summarizing Time-Ordered Medical Data: Research in Temporal Reasoning and Representation"

    Ronald Loui
    Stanford
    "Next-Generation Non-Monotonic Reasoning"

    Tim Koschmann
    Xerox
    "Applications of AI in Chemistry: Conformational Analysis Using a Truth-Maintenance System"

    DSC: Georg Dorffner
    WU
    "This Talk Grammatical Not: Why Natural Language Processing Has To Go Sub-Symbolic"

  • 86-87

    Mark Musen
    Stanford
    "Facilitating Knowledge Acquisition Using a Visual Model of Domain Knowledge"

    Steven Tanimoto
    Washington
    "Parallel Architecture for Machine Vision"

    Gary Cottrell
    Rochester
    "A Connectionist Approach to Word Sense Disambiguation"

    Gary Cottrell
    UCSD
    "Image Compression by Back-Propagation: An Example of Extensional Programming"

    Stan Kwasny
    Indiana
    "Deterministic Parsing of Speech"

    Chung Wu
    USC
    "A Hierarchical Knowledge-Based System for Object Recognition"

  • 85-86

    Marvin Minsky
    MIT
    "Society of Minds"

    Barry Kalman
    WU
    "Introduction of Fractals in Computational Imaging"

    Susan Man
    BELLCORE
    "Use of AI Methods in Industry"

    Fred Bookstein
    Michigan
    "From Medical Images to The Comprehension of Form"

  • 84-85

    Robert Moore
    LMI
    "Applications of Expert Systems to Industrial Control"

    Eric Mjolsness
    CalTech
    "Fingerprint Hallucination and Visual Pattern Recognition as The Collective Behaviors of Neural Networks"

    MS: Keith Bennett
    WU
    "An Expert System for Diabetic Glucose Control"

    Bill Swartout
    USC
    "Explainable Expert Systems"

  • 83-84

    Wei Chung Lin
    Purdue
    "A Syntactic Approach to 3D Object Recognition"

    Bill Swartout
    USC
    "Explainable Expert Systems"

  • 82-83

    Frederick Furtek
    Draper Labs
    "Reasoning about Ongoing Behavior"

    Maynard Engebretson
    WU
    "Current Trends in Speech Synthesis and Speech Recognition"

    Stuart Goldkind
    WU
    "AI Planning Systems"
  • 81-82

    Barry Soroka
    USC
    "Robot Programming Languages"