ISI AI Seminars

                Organized by Yolanda Gil (gil@isi.edu)

			    1996 Schedule

Jan 9   Raymond J. Mooney, University of Texas at Austin
(Tue)   "Inductive Logic Programming for Natural-Language Learning"

Jan 11  Larry Hunter, National Library of Medicine  
(Thu)   "Learning by Cultural Coevolution"

Jan 16  Henry Lieberman, MIT Media Laboratory
(Tue)   "Letizia: An Agent that Assists Web Browsing"

Feb 8   Tom Mitchell, Carnegie Mellon University
(Thu)   "Machine Learning and Information Agents"

Mar 15  Larry Matthies, Jet Propulsion Laboratory
        "Mars Microrover Navigation: Performance Evaluation 
         and Enhancement"

Apr 1   Joost Breuker, University of Amsterdam
(Mon)   "Structure of and access to the CommonKADS Library 
         of Problem Solving Methods"

Apr 12  Richard Korf, UCLA
        "Automatic Discovery of Admissible Heuristic Functions"

Apr 23  Jaime Carbonell, Carnegie Mellon University
(Tue)   "Automated Text Summarization"

May 10  James Lester, North Carolina State University 
        "Generating Natural Language Explanations from
         Large-Scale Knowledge Bases"

Jun 7   Martin Greenberger, IBM Professor of Computers and
         Information Systems; Danny Hillis, Disney Fellow and 
         Vice President, Research and Development for Walt 
         Disney Imagineering; Alan Kay, Apple Fellow and 
         Regents Professor at UCLA 
        "The Future of Computing and the Media: Travels into 
         the 21st Century"
        NOTE: This talk is part of the Jacob Marschak  
          Interdisciplinary Colloquium on Mathematics in the 
          Behavioral Sciences at UCLA, and will take place at 
          1PM in the Korn Convention Hall of the Anderson School
	  Building at UCLA. 

Jun 21  Brad Allen, Limbex Corporation
        "WebCompass: A Metasearch and Metadata Extraction Agent for 
          the Web"

Jul 12  Pat Langley, Institute for the Study of Learning and 
                     Expertise, and Stanford University
        "Learning to Sense Selectively in Physical Domains"

Jul 26  Richard Maclin, University of Minnesota-Duluth
        "Incorporating Advice into Knowledge-Based Neural Networks"

Sep 11  Bruce Croft, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
(Wed)   "Information Retrieval: What Do We Do for the Next 40 Years?"

Oct 4   Gil Tidhar, Australian AI Institute
        "SWARMM: Modelling Air Mission Teams"
8th floor conference room

Oct 11  Wei-Min Shen, Jafar Adibi, Bonghan Cho, Gal Kaminka, Jihie Kim,
         Behnam Salemi, and Sheila Tejada, USC/ISI
        "YODA: The Young Observant Discovery Agent"
8th floor conference room

Oct 18	Chunnan Hsu, Arizona State University
	"Learning Effective and Robust Knowledge for Semantic 
	 Query Optimization"

Oct 24	Carla Brodley, Purdue University 
(Thu)	"Improving the Quality of Training Data for Inductive Learning"
1:30 pm

Nov 1   John McCarthy, Stanford University
        "Applications of Formalized Contexts"
8th floor conference room

Nov 13	Bonghan Cho, USC/ISI
(Wed)	"Efficient Production Match and CSP Solving"
2 pm

Nov 22  Hans Chalupsky, USC/ISI
        "STELLA -- Painless Symbolic Processing in C++"

ISI AI Seminars will be held on Fridays at 10:30 am in the 
11th floor east-side conference room, unless otherwise indicated.