Informatics Jamboree 2000 Programme

Locations

Apart from exceptions noted below, all lectures will be held in
Psychology Lecture Theatre F21
7 George Square

Some abstracts to talks are available

Pizza Lunch and Poster Session (daily)
Psychology Concourse
7 George Square

Wednesday 24th May
Chair: Michael Fourman
9:30 Rich Caruana Unabridged Learning and Multitask Learning
10:30 Hua Cheng Aggregation in a GA-based Text Planner
11:00 Simon Colton The Automatic Invention of Integer Sequences.
11:30 Coffee
12:00 Ian Miguel Dynamic Flexible Constraint Satisfaction and its Application to AI Planning.
13:00 Pizza Lunch
Chair: Samson Abramsky
14:00 Simon King New models for automatic speech recognition
14:30 Bruce McAdam Program Repair with Type Isomorphisms
15:00 Jane Neumann Holistic Transformation of Holographic Reduced Representations 
15:30 Tea Raeburn Room, Old College
Chair: Gordon Plotkin
16:00 Joe Halpern Knowledge and Common Knowledge in Multi-Agent Systems Reasoning Law Lecture Theatre 183, Old College
Following the Milner lecture there will be a reception at Edinburgh Research and Innovation 15 South College Street
Thursday 25th May
Chair: Bonnie Webber
9:30 Rich Caruana Semi-Supervised Clustering
10:30 Peter Wiemer-Hastings
11:00 Sonia Schulenberg An Evolutionary Approach to Modelling the Behaviours of Financial Traders
11:30 Coffee
12 Joe Halpern Plausibility Measures and Default Reasoning
13:00 Pizza Lunch
Chair: Colin Stirling
14:00 Bridget Hallam Simulating Classical Conditioning using a Neuro-Connector Net
14:30 Marta Arias Learning first-order Horn expressions
15:00 Josh Singer Local Search on Random 2+p-SAT
15:30 Tea
Chair: Johanna Moore
16:00 Rich Caruana Medical Informatics, Machine Learning, and Case-based Explanation
Friday 26th May
Chair: Gordon Brebner
9:30 David Schmidt Proving Properties about Abstractions and Refinements
10:30 Jessica Chen-Burger How do you know it is right ?
11:00 Judy Robertson Using a Virtual Environment as a Story Preparation Activity
11:30 Coffee
12:00 Sue Becker A Neural Model of Spatial Cognition 
13:00 Pizza Lunch
Chair: Alan Bundy
14:00 Mike Ramscar How At Least One English Irregular May Have Snuck In: Rules and Similarity in Inflection and Cognition
14:30 Paul Bailey
15:00 Hassan Kamal An ATMS-based architecture for Systemic Sentence Generation
15:30 Christian Ionitoiu Knowledge lambda-calculus
16:00 Joe Halpern Probability update: Conditioning vs. Cross-entropy
18:00 Bar opens Prestonfield Room, Pollock Halls
19:00 Ceilidh
20:00 Jamboree Posters and Talks Prizegiving
23:00 Curfew


 

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