From mayer@heuristicrat.com Thu Nov 11 16:56:10 EST 1993 Article: 5060 of news.announce.conferences Xref: glinda.oz.cs.cmu.edu news.announce.conferences:5060 Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences Path: honeydew.srv.cs.cmu.edu!das-news.harvard.edu!noc.near.net!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!uunet!sparky!rick From: mayer@heuristicrat.com (Andrew Mayer) Subject: Announcement: Summer Institute on Probabilistic Reasoning in AI Message-ID: <1993Nov11.145114.21275@sparky.sterling.com> Sender: rick@sparky.sterling.com (Richard Ohnemus) Reply-To: mayer@heuristicrat.com Organization: Heuristicrats Research, Inc. Date: Thu, 11 Nov 1993 14:51:14 GMT Approved: rick@sparky.sterling.com Expires: Wed, 16 Feb 1994 08:00:00 GMT Lines: 81 X-Md4-Signature: c5f4e838d1dff36e48d9f28a2804d1a8 Summer Institute on Probabilistic Reasoning in Artificial Intelligence Corvallis, Oregon July 22 - 27, 1994 WHAT: An intensive short course in modern probabilistic modeling, Bayesian inference, and decision theory designed for advanced Phd students, recent Phds, and government and industry researchers. WHY: In the last decade, researchers have made significant breakthroughs in techniques for representing and reasoning about uncertain information. Many now feel that probabilistic reasoning and rational decision making provide a sound and practical foundation needed for a variety of problems in artificial intelligence. In fact, these techniques now form the basis of state-of-the-art applications in search, planning, machine learning, diagnosis, vision, robotics, and speech understanding. The field has reached a level of maturity where the basic techniques are well understood and ready for dissemination. At the same time, there is a wealth of potential applications and open research topics. Thus, the time is ripe to train the next generation of researchers. WHERE, WHEN, HOW: The first Summer Institute will be held at Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon from July 22-27, 1994. A distinguished faculty will lecture on foundations or probabilistic reasoning and decision theory, knowledge acquisition, learning, and inference methods. Case studies will be presented on implemented applications. The Institute will provide housing, and expects to be able to provide limited travel funds. The Institute is sponsored by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. WHO: Faculty Include: Jack Breese, Microsoft Wray Buntine, NASA Ames Bruce D'Ambrosio, Oregon State Thomas Dean, Brown Robert Fung, Lumina Decision Systems Othar Hansson, HRI & UC Berkeley David Heckerman, Microsoft Max Henrion, Lumina Decision Systems Keiji Kanazawa, UC Berkeley Tod Levitt, IET & Stanford Andrew Mayer, HRI & UC Berkeley Judea Pearl, UCLA Mark Peot, Stanford Ross Shachter, Stanford Michael Wellman, Univ. Michigan and others to be announced at a later date TO APPLY: For information and applications please contact the recruiting chair: Andrew Mayer Heuristicrats Research, Inc. 1678 Shattuck Avenue, Suite 310 Berkeley, CA 94709-1631 (510) 845-5810, x629 mayer@heuristicrat.com APPLICATIONS MUST BE RECEIVED BY FEBRUARY 15, 1994. Early application is encouraged to aid our planning process.