Integration of Knowledge and Neural Heuristics

This article discusses the First International Symposium on Integrating Knowledge and Neural Heuristics, held on 9 to 10 May 1994 in Pensacola, Florida. The highlights of the event are summarized, organized according to the five areas of concentration at the conference: (1) integration methodologies; (2) language, psychology, and cognitive science; (3) fuzzy logic; (4) learning; and (5) applications. This trend has begun to pick up its momentum since the late 1980s, and both approaches have enjoyed many successful applications to real-world problems. This hybrid idea is largely a consequence of an increasingly strong belief that knowledge and neural models can complement each other beneficially. The growing community in this area convened at the First International Symposium on Integrating Knowledge and Neural Heuristics (ISIKNH) on 9 to 10 May 1994 in Pensacola Beach, Florida, for the first time on the international level.