Report on the First National Conference on Knowledge Representation and Inference in Sanskrit

This conference is analogous to the ancient texts but little procedural consultation of philosophers and cognitive information), we had to rely on the This report is a review of the First psychologists by computer scientists pandits to whom the oral tradition had National Conference on Knowledge in the beginnings of AI. been passed. Representation and Inference in Western psychology and philosophy is The conference was inspired by Sri Sanskrit, Bangalore, India, 20 through quite different from the Indo-Aryan Paramananda Bharathi Swamiji and 22 December, 1986 The conference tradition: the former has its basis in was organized by Dr. H. N. Mahabala was inspired by an article that Aristotelian logic and the scientific (president, Computer Society of India; appeared in the Spring 1985 issue of method, whereas the latter is also chairman, Indian Institute of AI Magazine--"Knowledge based on introspection and internal Technology) and others. The conference Representation in Sanskrit and experience Nevertheless, both these was attended by the vice-chairman Artificial Intelligence." Virtually text.The purpose of AI in this context every institute of science, mathematics is to derive a "method" for natural language and engineering was represented. A working group has been created to was implicit; it was not the focus.