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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.

Alan Turing's decades-old question still influences artificial intelligence because of the simple test he proposed in his article in Mind. In this article, AI Magazine collects presentations about the first round of the classic Turing Test of machine intelligence, held November 8, 1991 at The Computer Museum, Boston. Robert Epstein, Director Emeritus, Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, and an adjunct professor of psychology, Boston University, University of Massachusetts (Amherst), and University of California (San Diego) summarizes some of the difficult issues during the planning of this first real-time competition, and describes the event. Presented in tandem with Dr. Epstein's article is the actual transcript of session that won the Loebner Prize Competition--Joseph Weintraub's computer program PC Therapist. In 1985 an old friend, Hugh Loebner, told me The intricacies of setting up a real Turing Test excitedly that the Turing Test should be made that would ultimately yield a legitimate into an annual contest. We were ambling winner were enormous. Small points were down a Manhattan street on our way to occasionally debated for months without dinner, as I recall. Hugh was always full of clear resolution. Turing, proposed a variation on a simple Four years later, while serving as the director parlor game as a means for identifying a of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies, machine that can think: A human judge an advanced studies institute in Massachusetts, interacts with two computer terminals, one I established the Loebner Prize controlled by a computer and the other by a Competition, the first serious effort to locate person, but the judge doesn't know which is a machine that can pass the Turing Test. If, after a prolonged conversation at Hugh had come through with a pledge of each terminal, the judge can't tell the difference, $100,000 for the prize money, along with we'd have to say, asserted Turing, that some additional funds from his company, in some sense the computer is thinking. Crown Industries, to help with expenses. The Computers barely existed in Turing's day, but, quest for the thinking computer had begun. I'll then describe that After much debate, the Loebner Prize Committee first event, which took place on November 8, ultimately rejected Turing's simple 1991, at The Computer Museum in Boston two-terminal design in favor of one that is and offer a summary of some of the data generated more discriminating and less problematic. Finally, I'll speculate The two-terminal design is troublesome for about the future of the competition--now an several reasons, among them: The design presumes annual event, as Hugh envisioned--and that the hidden human--the human about its significance to the AI community.

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.

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In preparation for the Summer tion needs as customer support, field Stone Webster (Boston, MA) and The Olympics in Barcelona, Telefonica de service, end-user computing, and Foxboro Co. (Foxboro, MA) plan to Espana S.A. (Madrid, Spain), the vendor technical support. Advisor, Stone Webster's real-time Macro*World Investor, a stock analysis developed a Spanish-language speech Foxboro system is at Weyerhaeuser's and data transformations while Spain will recognize the caller's Engineers' Design Institute for had previously been done by human company's customer support personnel The a specified roster of physical and on case-based reasoning. Currently in HSB is used to increase employee thermodynamic properties for the production, the Support Management productivity for both instructors and chemical or mixture. ATT reportedly plans to support this market, such as memory implement a pilot project for Mellon close 31 of its operator centers, and cards, smart cards, tokens, tags, and Bank (Pittsburgh, PA) using Nestor's to lay off from 3,000 to 6,000 of its wireless communication, will also be credit card Fraud Detection System, a workers in the next two years ATT covered. The system is designed in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.

The Sixth Annual Knowledge-Based Software Engineering Conference (KBSE-91) was held at the Sheraton University Inn and Conference Center in Syracuse, New York, from Sunday afternoon, 22 September, through midday Wednesday, 25 September. The KBSE field is concerned with applying knowledge-based AI techniques to the problems of creating, understanding, and maintaining very large software systems.

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Human error is an Criticism should not be querulous, and umes of fast-changing increasingly important wasting, all knife and root puller, but guiding, sensory data that and addressable instructive, inspiring, a South wind, one needs to process concern in modernday not an East wind. Most institutions), and the automation that technology represents accidents waiting to surrounds us (for example, unfriendly computers happen. For example, in the Challenger explosion, We get by because humans excel at coping. the shortcomings of the O-rings had been High-technology accidents occur because known for several years. What feedback hundreds of alarms simultaneously all contributed strategy (for example, story telling, first-principle to the disaster. Likewise, when the lecturing) will most constructively correct British fleet was sent to defend the Falkland the human error? It was at this differences. However, there are no point that the Argentines released their missile models there or in the AI literature of errors and sank an unsuspecting British ship. The operator had The errors result from proficient task performers no inkling of the ramifications of the system practicing in a natural environment; they designs under the current operating conditions. New error and critiquing models operator has virtually no way out. The remarkable need to capture and reflect this difference. We computer-aided design (ICAD) to mitigate begin by examining the design process and such problems. Specifically, we examine the the cognitive difficulties it poses. The designer uses a interference problems are also increasingly variety of cognitive operators to generate a evident on civilian automobiles, airplanes, design, test it under various conditions, refine and ships that cram telephones, radios, computers, it until a stopping rule is reached, and then radar devices, and other electromagnetically store the design as a prototype or analog to incompatible devices into close help start a new process for the next design proximity. The design process is sufficiently complex domain are relevant to all engineering design that a correct and complete design applications that must factor any operational simply cannot be deduced from starting conditions (or manufacturability, sales, or other downstream) or simulation model results.

Integrated Language and Vision Systems, Scholarship Travel Program If you are interested in assisting AAAI at the national conference, New Mexico State University, Continued please contact AAAI at volunteer Dec. 1991 AAAI announces the continuation of @aaai.org. All inquiries should 1991 IFIP/KR Workshop its scholarship travel program for students include your name, address, telephone, Eleventh International Workshop on who want to attend the National advisor's name, and email Distributed Artificial Intelligence, Conference on Artificial Intelligence address. All requests to volunteer at Glen Arbor, Michigan, February 1992 in San Jose, California, 12-17 July AAAI-92 must be received by the 1992. First International Conference on and (2) are members of April 3 AAAI-92 Scholarship AI Planning Systems, University of AAAI. In addition, repeat scholarship Application Deadline Maryland, June 1992 applicants must have fulfilled the April 29 Al Magazine Summer Issue The Third International Conference volunteer and reporting requirements Calendar Deadline on Principles of Knowledge Representation for previous awards.