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AISB Workshop on AI Education - Goals, Courses and Resources
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FIRST CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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University of Sheffield
Sheffield, England

April 3 or 4, 1995

Society for the Study of
Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB)

Workshop Committee

Michael Rosner, IDSIA, Lugano/University of Malta (Principle Organiser)
Paolo Cattaneo, IDSIA, Lugano
Dean Allemang, PTT Research Labs, Bern, Switzerland
Ben du Boulay, Sussex University
Anneke De Roeck, Essex University
Giorgio Ingargiola, Temple University, Philadelphia
Arthur Stutt, The Open University, Milton Keynes
Gheorghe Tecuci, George Mason University, USA/Romanian Academy
Dan Tufis, Romanian Academy, Bucharest



This workshop is intended to clarify some of the issues surrounding AI
education. It is aimed at those involved with teaching AI, AI
practioners with an educational leaning, and developers of educational
materials for AI. At the workshop we will try to focus the discussion
around the following three themes:

- Goals of AI Education: what skills do we expect an AI course to
impart? Can we resolve the conflict between the need for AI-literate
graduates (this includes graduates from other disciplines such as
linguistics, philosophy, engineering, statistics etc) to deal with real
world problems and the need to pursue pure research?  how does this
link up with what we teach and how we teach it? 

- Anatomy of the AI Curriculum: AI comprises a large number of
different subfields; at the same time, the most interesting AI
problems are inherently interdisciplinary. What is the relationship
between "core" AI subjects and interdisciplinary problems, and how
this might relate to a syllabus. What are the experiences of those
currently involved with teaching specific AI courses.

- Resources for AI Education: it is now possible to lay hands upon
somebody's version of practically anything over the internet. Yet the
utility of all this material for teaching purposes is without doubt
less than it ought to be due to compatibility problems, lack of
indexing, and lack of guidelines for would-be contributors. The aim
here is to to formulate some recommendations for improving the nature,
quality and diffusion of such resources. 

We solicit papers on the above themes for 20 minute presentations + 10
minutes discussion. Plain ascii text abstracts should be submitted by
email (subject line "aisb workshop" not more than 2 pp.) to the
principle organiser. Authors of accepted abstracts will have
approximately one month to submit final versions of papers (up
to ten pages, self-contained Latex, Ascii or Postscript). 

Proposals for demonstrations of existing work are likewise welcome:
please be specific about time and hardware/software requirements.

There will also be a limited number of workshop places for
participants interested in the theme who do not wish to be included in
the formal programme. Further information from the principle organiser

Deadlines:

2 page email abstracts or
indication of interest:     23rd January 1995 (**revised date**)
Notification of acceptance: 6th February 1995
Final papers:               3rd March 1995

Michael Rosner, IDSIA, Corso Elvezia 36, 6900 Lugano, Switzerland
tel. +4191 22 88 81; fax. +4191 22 89 94; email aisb@idsia.ch
(principle organiser)




