(IKS 2002).

The seventh biennial Bar-Ilan International Symposium on the Foundations of Artificial Intelligence, will be held on June 25-27, 2001 in Ramat Gan, Israel. The meeting will honor the research and accomplishments of Yaacov Choueka and will therefore place special emphasis on natural language processing and computational linguistics, in addition to the usual topics of the symposium. Yaacov Choueka Jieh Hsiang Daphne Koller Richard Korf Doug Lenat Moshe Vardi The BISFAI-01 program, schedule and registration information will be available at the BISFAI website: www.cs.biu.ac.il/ bisfai, along with abstracts of invited and accepted papers and pointers to online versions.For further information or requests, contact: bisfai@cs.biu.ac.il. CONTEXT-01 EST Setubal, Campus do IPS / R. Vale www.dfki.de/um2001 Faculty Positions for Intelligent Aerospace Systems Program The College of Engineering at the University of Oklahoma invites applications for 3 to 5 new faculty positions at all levels in the area of Intelligent Systems.

It comprises activities Systems, Knowledge Representation managing an interaction. On the focused on the organization, acquiring and Reasoning, and Knowledge Discovery. Wide Web and will remain available in any system that aims to tutor users The KM community has been at ksi.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/AIKM97. Cross-language text retrieval (CLTR) is the problem of matching a query in The presentations made at this symposium This symposium brought together one language to related documents in dealt with vastly different environments, researchers in natural language processing other languages. As internet resources ranging from digital libraries (NLP) from both academia such as the World Wide Web have and broadcast news archives to virtual and industry, including service become global networks, many new reality and, of course, the web.

The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence held its 1992 Spring Symposium Series on March 25-27 at Stanford University, Stanford, California. This article contains a summary of the symposia that were conducted: Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Cognitive Aspects of Knowledge Acquisition, Computational Considerations in Supporting Incremental Modification and Reuse, Knowledge Assimilation, Practical Approaches to Scheduling and Planning, Producing Cooperative Explanations, Propositional Knowledge Representation, Selective Perception, and Reasoning with Diagrammatic Representations.

Giving Is Hard: The Complexity of Linear Navigation and Xiaofeng Chen, Wright State University, 274 SC9j22, Santa Clara, CA 95052.

The nets are also described as parallel distributed systems!, connectionist models

The nets are also described as parallel distributed systems!, connectionist models

An informal workshop on concurrent logic programming, metaprogramming, and open systems was held at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) on 8-9 September 1987 with support from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence. The 50 workshop participants came from the Japanese Fifth Generation Project (ICOT), the Weizmann Institute of Sci-ence in Israel, Imperial College in London, the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Stanford University, the Mas-sachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), Cal Tech, Science University of Tokyo, Melbourne University, Calgary University, University of Wisconsin, Case Western Reserve, University of Oregon, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), Quintus, Symbolics, IBM, and Xerox PARC. No proceedings were generated; instead, participants distributed copies of drafts, slides, and recent papers.

The enterprise of developing knowledge-based systems is currently witnessing great growth in popularity. The central unity of many such programs is that they interpret knowledge that is explicitly encoded as rules. While rule-based programming comes with certain clear pay-offs, further fundamental advances in research are needed to extend the scope of tasks that can be adequately represented in this fashion. This article is a statement of personal perspective by a researcher interested in fundamental issues in the symbolic representation and organization ok knowledge.

Canadians have made many contributions to artificial intelligence over the years. This article presents a summary of current research in artificial intelligence in Canada and acquaints readers with the Canadian organization for artificial intelligence -- the Canadian Society for the Computational Studies of Intelligence / Societe Canadienne pour l' Etude de l'Intelligence par Ordinateur (CSCSI/ SCEIO).