From: LARRY KLAES (ljk4@msn.com)
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 13:03:33 PST
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Subject: Cornell News: Frankenstein and artificial intelligence forum
'Frankenstein' and the future of artificial intelligence is the focus
of a community forum at the Tompkins County Library, Nov. 7
FOR RELEASE: Oct. 29, 2002
Contact: Gary Stewart
Office: 607-255-4908
E-mail: gjs28@cornell.edu
ITHACA, N.Y. -- Communitywide and Cornell University Frankenstein
reading-and-discussion activities continue Thursday, Nov. 7, at 7
p.m. at the Tompkins County Public Library with a special community
forum. The focus of this fun and informative event will be artificial
intelligence and its practical applications. A panel with a wide
range of expertise will provide comments on the issue, and panel
members will take questions from the audience.
The forum, which is free and open to the public, should be of
interest to students from middle school and up, and it will feature:
Michael Babish, a graduate of Cornell with a master's degree in
computer science and the team leader for the 2000, 2001 and 2002
Cornell RoboCup championship robotic-soccer teams. RoboCup was
created to foster research in robotics and artificial intelligence.
Competitors design small robots that operate as a team, using vision
systems enabling the robots to detect the ball and distinguish
between their own players and their opponents in competitive matches.
Lillian Lee, Cornell associate professor in computer science, who
works in the area of natural language processing, focusing on
"knowledge-lean" methods for automatically learning linguistic
knowledge from essentially raw text. Her previous work has explored
automatic word clustering and word similarity determination.
Hod Lipson, Cornell associate professor in mechanical and aerospace
engineering. Prior to moving to Ithaca in 2001, he was a postdoctoral
researcher at Brandeis University's computer science department,
working on evolutionary computation and robotics, where he led the
Golem Project, creating the first physical artificial life forms.
Bob Walters, technology education teacher and department head at
DeWitt Middle School in Ithaca. Walters advises students who compete
in the National Technology Student Association Conference and has led
breakthrough work in the public school system in a number of areas,
ranging from computer applications to solar power.
The Nov. 7 forum will be moderated by Gary Stewart, assistant
director of community relations at Cornell. For more information,
phone (607) 255-4908 or e-mail <gjs28@cornell.edu>.
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The web version of this release may be found at
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/Oct02/Franken.forum.gs.html
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