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Contributors to this Issue

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Rick Briggs, author of "Knowledge Representation and Inference in Sanskrit: A Review of the First National Conference," is a senior engineer at Delfin Systems, 1349 Moffett Park Drive, Sunnyvale, California 94089. Briggs is currently working on natural language processing, numeric and symbolic coupling, and expert system development in the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at Delfin Systems. Lindley Darden, who wrote "Viewing the History of Science as Compiled Hindsight,lI is an associate professor in the departments of philosophy and history and a member of the graduate faculty in the Committee on the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Maryland, College Park. She is currently serving in the second year of a halftime research appointment at the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies. Her mailing address is Department of Philosophy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742.


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See Toward the Principled Enganeering of Knowledge. Expert Systems: Where are we? And where do we go from here? Feigenbaum, Edward A, See Signal-to-symbol transformation: HASP/SIAP case study. Research in Progress Vol IV, No. 4, p. 58, Winter, 1983 THE AI MAGAZINE Spring 1984 83 K Minsky, Marvin Why People Think Computers Can't.


A Graduate-Level Expert Systems Course

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The course size is limited to 20. It is run as a 14-week course, with one 3-hour class per week. One goal of the course is to examine a number of expert, knowledgebased, problem-solving systems, looking at each system in some depth. Another important goal is to make comparisons across systems in a domain-independent way. An attempt is made to relate systems by their problem-solving capabilities rather than merely by the AI techniques used.


A Framework for Representing and Reasoning about Three-Dimensional Objects for Vision

AI Magazine

The capabilities for representing and reasoning about three-dimensional (3-D) objects are essential for knowledgebased, 3-D photointerpretation systems that combine domain knowledge with image processing, as demonstrated by 3-D Mosaic and ACRONYM. Three-dimensional representation of objects is necessary for many additional applications, such as robot navigation and 3-D change detection. Geometric reasoning is especially important because geometric relationships between object parts are a rich source of domain knowledge. A practical framework for geometric representation and reasoning must incorporate projections between a two-dimensional (2-D) image and a 3-D scene, shape and surface properties of objects, and geometric and topological relationships between objects. In addition, it should allow easy modification and extension of the system's domain knowledge and be flexible enough to organize its reasoning efficiently to take advantage of the current available knowledge.


Pattern matching is not enough

#artificialintelligence

When analysts and media write about artificial intelligence (AI), most of them unfortunately only talk about machine learning. In doing so, they mention AI and machine learning in the same breath and thus equal AI with one single technology. This is wrong and a concerning progress. In particular, it is confusing the market during a time when 58 percent of organizations worldwide (according to Forrester) are still researching AI. However, AI is more than just machine learning and consists of several different components that provide intelligent solutions.


Poincaré Embeddings for Learning Hierarchical Representations

Neural Information Processing Systems

Representation learning has become an invaluable approach for learning from symbolic data such as text and graphs. However, state-of-the-art embedding methods typically do not account for latent hierarchical structures which are characteristic for many complex symbolic datasets. In this work, we introduce a new approach for learning hierarchical representations of symbolic data by embedding them into hyperbolic space -- or more precisely into an n-dimensional Poincaré ball. Due to the underlying hyperbolic geometry, this allows us to learn parsimonious representations of symbolic data by simultaneously capturing hierarchy and similarity. We present an efficient algorithm to learn the embeddings based on Riemannian optimization and show experimentally that Poincaré embeddings can outperform Euclidean embeddings significantly on data with latent hierarchies, both in terms of representation capacity and in terms of generalization ability.


Analogy and Relational Representations in the Companion Cognitive Architecture

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This includes the physical world, where qualitative representations have a long track record of providing human-level reasoning and performance (Forbus 2014), but also in social reasoning (for example, degrees of blame [Tomai and Forbus 2007]). Qualitative representations carve up continuous phenomena into symbolic descriptions that serve as a bridge between perception and cognition, facilitate everyday reasoning and communication, and help ground expert reasoning. We close with some lessons (Forbus, Klenk, and Hinrichs 2009) is on higher-order learned and open problems. In Newell's (1990) timescale proposed that analogy involves the construction of decomposition of cognitive phenomena, conceptual mappings between two structured, relational representations. Thus to the other, based on the correspondences), and a we approximate subsystems whose operations occur score indicating the overall quality of the match. For which one is trying to reason about, and hence inferences example, in Companions constraint checking and are made from base to target by default.


Danny Bobrow: A Personal Recollection

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Meeting the challenges loved ideas, and loved to create the tools and environments of developing very large (for the day) systems on for people to solve problems. He made creative computers with minuscule main memory, he led them connections -- he was a true collaborator and to push the state of the art in virtual memory and operating friend. I was lucky to be one of the earliest beneficiaries systems, going from software to hardware paging, of the skill Terry Winograd has characterized as eventually producing TENEX.


Problem-Solving Skills for University Success Coursera

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About this course: In this course, you will learn how to develop your Problem Solving and Creativity Skills to help you achieve success in your university studies. After completing this course, you will be able to: 1. Recognise the importance and function of problem solving and creative thought within academic study and the role of critical thought in creative ideation.


On the adoption of abductive reasoning for time series interpretation

arXiv.org Artificial Intelligence

Time series interpretation aims to provide an explanation of what is observed in terms of its underlying processes. The present work is based on the assumption that common classification-based approaches to time series interpretation suffer from a set of inherent weaknesses whose ultimate cause lies in the monotonic nature of the deductive reasoning paradigm. In this document we propose a new approach to this problem based on the initial hypothesis that abductive reasoning properly accounts for the human ability to identify and characterize patterns appearing in a time series. The result of the interpretation is a set of conjectures in the form of observations, organized into an abstraction hierarchy, and explaining what has been observed. A knowledge-based framework and a set of algorithms for the interpretation task are provided, implementing a hypothesize-and-test cycle guided by an attentional mechanism. As a representative application domain, the interpretation of the electrocardiogram allows us to highlight the strengths of the proposed approach in comparison with traditional classification-based approaches.