De Kleer agreed Institute for the Learning Sciences, university laboratories to real-world that model construction can be difficult Troy Heindel of the Gensym Corporation development efforts, state-of-the-art but noted that the overhead involved (formerly of NASA Johnson research in model-based reasoning in developing structural, Space Center [JSC]), Ben Kuipers of (MBR), and an overview of relevant functional, or causal models is not the University of Texas at Austin, research and applications activities in worse than that associated with developing Ethan Scarl of Boeing Computing the European Space Agency (ESA).

Allen Newell was one of the founders and truly great scientists of AI. His contributions included foundational concepts and ground-breaking systems. His career was defined by the pursuit of a single, fundamental issue: the nature of the human mind. This article traces his pursuit from his early work on search and list processing in systems such as the LOGIC THEORIST and the GENERAL PROBLEM SOLVER; through his work on problem spaces, human problem solving, and production systems; through his final work on unified theories of cognition and SOAR.

The interdisciplinary makeup allowed for an expansion of the scope of Glymour's One notable extension was the move from android epistemology to android ethics. "they can know everything we know Margaret Boden presented her work Hayes and Ford were responding Participation was limited to 40 If the first two workshops on to the debate in Scientific American researchers selected from several disciplines human and machine cognition are (January 1990) between Searle and (principally computer science, representative, these meetings will the Churchlands about whether a philosophy, and psychology); become hotbeds of constructive and machine could think. Ironically, although this approach makes for much-needed debate. They focus on from the perspective of Hayes and stimulating discussion, it has resulted the foundational and methodological Ford, Searle and the Churchlands are in a competitive review process concerns of those who want to forge essentially in agreement, diverging (about a 10-percent acceptance rate). It is just a theories about the necessary in U.S. politics, the theme of the fact of life that there isn't much material basis (biological versus parallel) Second International Workshop on agreement about methodology and for intelligence. They both Human and Machine Cognition was, foundational issues within these two make specific implementation features What do androids know, and when fields. The positions covered One feature of the workshop that for intelligence. As might be expected, a wide range: "They can know facilitated and, at times, obstructed Paul Churchland objected to this only what androids can know: Android fruitful discussion was its highly interdisciplinary grouping.

The Lockheed Corp. (Calabasas, CA) to reduce operator stress in such a Engineers at Southwest Research and AT&T (New York, NY) have signed situation. The system is now in use by work on a neural network system. ERAAM (Malakoff, France) has developed and route planning systems are Tractor manufacturer Caterpillar the Traffic Data Management among the systems being developed. Rosh Intelligent Systems Inc. (Needham, developed with Carnegie Mellon or rejecting orders referred by its Lam The system will eliminate neural network chip. Inc. (San Jose, CA), to read virtually The neural network listens offices nationwide.

There is substantial evidence that AI technology can meet the requirements of the large potential market that will exist for knowledge-based software engineering at the turn of the century. In this article, which forms the conclusion to the AAAI Press book Automating Software Design, edited by Michael Lowry and Robert McCartney, Michael Lowry discusses the future of software engineering, and how knowledge-based software engineering (KBSE) progress will lead to system development environments. Specifically, Lowry examines how KBSE techniques promote additive programming methods and how they can be developed and introduced in an evolutionary way.

As a communication scholar, I am This latest computer revolution well aware that many traditionalists has taken shape only within the view the respective disciplines of past five years. My recently completed These two revolutions have been master's thesis argues against this operating independently with limited view. Many concepts from the field success, instead of together with The workshops on Artificial Intelligence of communication have been used by potentially phenomenal success. The and Statistics have broadened the flow artificial intelligence researchers and multimedia revolution has successfully of information between the two fields scholars in the development of AI. broken into the marketplace on and encouraged interdisciplinary work. The central argument of my perspective all levels, but lacks the key component General Chair: R.W. Oldford (U. is that artificial intelligence is (symbolic reasoning) needed for Waterloo); man Program Chair: P. Cheese Sponsers: Sot. for A.I. and potential to provide the current multimedia By transcending traditional Stats., Int'l Ass. for Stat.

An effective to develop an abstract UI model which solution to this problem must have three encompasses the essence of those systems.

The Department of Computer Science at Louisiana State University (LSU) has been involved in robotics research since 1992 when the Robotics Research Laboratory (RRL) was established as a research and teaching program specializing in autonomous mobile robots (AMRS). Researchers at RRL are conducting high-quality research in amrs with the goal of identifying the computational problems and the types of knowledge that are fundamental to the design and implementation of autonomous mobile robotic systems. In this article, we overview the projects that are currently under way at LSU's RRL.

July Conference Highlights m An AI Art Exhibition will showcase robot weighing in at 300 lbs., from the use of AI in serious works SRI; Bert and Ernie, midget-sized Again this year, AAAI is staging the of art. AIon-Line, five audience-interactive Technologies, untethered and battery with the National Conference on Artificial AI user panels, will offer practical powered, from NASA-JSC; William, a Intelligence, with 19 deployed learning on key business and feel-its-way robot from MIT and JPL; applications selected for presentation organization issues, based on case Flash, a Denning mobile platform from entries from around the world. A series of invited speakers and guidance from MITRE; Flash dimension to the conference, panels will complement the refereed Zorton, a walking machine designed promising give-and-take discussions papers and introduce areas of to compete in the robotic decathlon, about AI in operation. AI research that have unusual from Ecole Polytechnique of Montreal; AAAI-92 offers a series of technical interest and application. The of Southern California/Information The AAAI Robot Rules capture the National Conference is the year's Sciences Institute, and Peter spirit of the competition, indicating, largest meeting ground for those Szolovits, Associate Professor of Computer "It will not be slick, polished...there interested in AI, from scientific, academic, Science at the Massachusetts will be a certain amount of chaos, and business communities. This year's program is particularly There is a serious purpose, diverse, with concentration on research AAAI To Include New Dean noted, "to bring together areas results that bridge the gaps between AI Robotics Competition of AI including those working in perception, the different AI technologies and the AAAI will have its first AI Robotics Highlights, including AAAI-92 National Conference in San facilitate this and to make 34 focused technical sessions, with Jose, California July 12-16, 1992.

On Monday, 15 July 1991, prior to the Ninth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-91) in Anaheim, California, over 50 scientists and engineers attended the AAAI-91 Workshop on Intelligent Multimedia Interfaces. The purpose of the workshop was threefold: (1) bring together researchers and practitioners to report on current advances in intelligent multimedia interface systems and their underlying theories, (2) foster scientific interchange among these individuals, and (3) evaluate current efforts and make recommendations for future investigations.