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A Few Highlights fromIJCAI 2001, Seattle, USA

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Summary of Conference

• 7 Days Program• 31 Workshops• 20 Tutorials• 4 IJCAI Awards• Keynote Address: Bill Gate• 8 Invited Talks and Panels• Technical Program

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Workshops

• 9 types of Workshops:

• Agent: 3

• Onto: 4

• Web: 2

• ML: 5

• CSP: 2

• KRR: 4

• Planning and Robots: 3

• Task (general): 4

• Others: 3

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Tutorials

• Knowledge Management• Agent Communication and Systems• Knowledge Mark-Up• Machine Learning from Text• Questions and Answering• Search algorithms, empirical methods, Lisp, NN, OR

and CSP, Computer Games

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Technical Program• Knowledge Rep and Reasoning: 21 (DL 8)• Planning: 15• Logic Programming and Theorem Proving: 10• Machine Learning and Data Mining:23• CBR: 5• Multi-Agent Systems: 27• Web Applications: 4• NLP and IR: 14• Planning: 15• Cog. Modelling, Games, Diagnosis, Uncertainty and

Probabilistic Reasoning, NN+GA, Search, Satisfiability and CSP.

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Highlights

• Knowledge Management

• Agent Communication for Knowledge Based E-Market

• Information Extraction

• The Hal 9000 Computer and the Vision of 2001: A Space odyssey - by David G Stork

• IJCAI Computers and Thought Award - by Daphne Koller

• Keynote Address: AI in the Computing Experience: Challenges and Opportunities - by Bill Gate

• RoboCup

• IJCAI Award for Research Excellence - by Donald Michie and more !!

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Cooking UpKnowledge Management

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Knowledge Management ProcessStefan Decker and Steffen Staab

• Knowledge Goals

• Knowledge Identification

• Knowledge Capturing

• Knowledge Structuring

• Knowledge Dissemination

• Knowledge Usage

• Knowledge Preservation• Knowledge Assessment

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AI Techniques used for Knowledge Management

• IR and IE• CBR• Knowledge Discovery• Onto-based KM• MetaData-based KM• Topic Maps• Visualisation Techniques• CommonKADS for KM

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UnleashAgent Communication

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Agent Communication for Knowledge Based E-Market

Benjamin Grosof and Yannis Labrou

• Intelligent Agents in Web E-Commerce

• Sales agents

• Buyer agents• Billions/Trillions of agents

• automatically perform knowledge gathering, reasoning, economic optimisation and bidding.

• The world is XML

• structured detailed descriptions

• Open standards

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Agent Communication and Semantic Web

• Agent Communication using a common language over the Web-wide scale

• Revolution of Internet:

• 1st generation: Internet

• 2nd generation: World Wide Web

• 3rd generation: Semantic Web

• "The Semantic Web approach proposes Languages for expressing info and relationships between info over time, they will accommodate formal system techniques for verification, inconsistency checking and reasoning." - W3C

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Tim Berners-Lee's Vision of Semantic Web

Unicode URI

XML + NS + XML Schema

RDF + RDF Schema

Ontology Vocabulary

Logic

Proof

Trust

Self-Desc.Doc

Data

Data

Rules

Dig

ital

Si

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ure

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The Hal 9000 Computer and the Vision of 2001: A Space odyssey

David G Stork

compare the film's computer science "visions" with current technological fact -- inparticular those related to its central character, the HAL 9000 computer, which couldspeak, reason, see, play chess, plan and express emotions.

In some domains reality has surpassed the vision in the film: computer chess, computerhardware, and graphics. In numerous others, reality has fallen far short: computerspeech, language, vision, lipreading, planning, and common sense. The film missedsome trends entirely: the film showed no laptops or PDAs, and HAL as large as a schoolbus but in reality computers instead got smaller.

David G. Stork is Chief Scientist at Ricoh Silicon Valley's California Research Centerand Consulting Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford University.

His most recent books include HAL's Legacy: 2001's computer as dream and reality(MIT Press) and Pattern Classification (2nd ed.) by R. O. Duda, P. E. Hart and D. G.Stork Wiley). His documentary, 2001: HAL's Legacy, will be [was first] broadcast onPBS in April 2001.

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• Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Probabilistic Reasoning, Machine Learning and Game Theory

IJCAI Computers and Thought Award Winner - Daphne Koller

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Keynote Address: AI in the Computing Experience: Challenges and

Opportunities Bill Gate

• User Profiling, Modelling and Paper Clips• Natural Language Understanding and Processing• Information Extraction• Image Processing and Understanding

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RoboCup

• Soccer Simulation• Small-sized Robot• Medium-sized Robot• Sony Legged Robot League

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Soccer Competition

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Sony Robots

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Coming Up in CISA

• The IJCAI Research Excellence Award Winner - Donald Michie - will give us a talk in the CISA seminar series on October 4th, 11am, FH Jim Howe's Room.

• "Discovery as Collaboration: it takes two (at least) to a Tango". http://www.aiai.ed.ac.uk/~dm/~dm.html

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Low Flying Fish in Seattle

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Good Bye Seattle