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From: "I. Dattani" <dattani@aloha>
Subject: SECOND BCS SGES EVENING LECTURE
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Attached is information about the second in the series of BCS SGES 
Evening Lectures. It will be held at the IEE on 27th November 1996 and 
everyone is welcome to attend. It is being given by Dr S. Muggleton and 
will be on Knowledge Discovery in Databases.

These Lectures are completely free and open to all to attend. You do not 
need to register in advance and you do not have to be a member of the 
Specialist Group on Expert Systems. 

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BCS SGES Evening Lecture - 27th November 1996

Venue: Thompson Board Room
IEE
Savoy Place
London
(Nearest Tube: Embankment and Waterloo)
Time: 6.30 - 7.30

Guest Speaker: Dr. S. Muggleton (Oxford University Computing Lab) 
Title: Knowledge Discovery in Databases 

Chair: Ilesh Dattani (Safety Systems Research Center, Bristol) 

Dr. S. Muggleton received his BSc in Computer Science at the University
of Edinburgh in 1982. His PhD research, on the topic ``Inductive 
Acquisition of Expert Knowledge'' was carried out at Edinburgh
University under the supervision of Prof. Michie. Dr. Muggleton was
awarded his PhD. in 1986 During the period 1986-1990 Dr. Muggleton was a 
Turing Institute Research Fellow. In 1990 he was awarded a SERC
Postdoctoral Fellowship and in 1993 an Advanced EPSRC Reseach
Fellowship. Dr. Muggleton was awarded an Honorary MA from Oxford in 1993. 
He has also been Fujitsu Associate Professor at the University of Tokyo 
and Director of Academic Research at the Turing Institute, Glasgow. 

Dr. Muggleton is presently an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow at the
Oxford University Computing Laboratory. In 1993 he was elected a Research 
Fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford and a Member of Congregation of the 
University of Oxford. 

ABSTRACT: 
Inductive Logic Programming (ILP) is now a well established field aimed 
at the inductive construction of logic programs from data. Unlike other 
machine learning techniques, the emphasis in ILP is on the use of 
logically encoded background knowledge to provide easily comprehended 
theories expressed in the language of the domain expert. When applied to 
chemical and biological databases this combination has led to a number of 
discoveries which have been refereed and published in top scientific 
journals. Additionally, when applied to natural language corpora, ILP has 
yielded high-accuracy parsers, with over 1000 lines of Prolog code 
generated in under 4 hours of computation. In both cases ILP acts as an 
assistant to experts who provide relevant background knowledge. Fundamental
advances in the technology of ILP have been developed on the basis of 
logic, probability and complexity theory. This lecture will review
applications of ILP together with some of the key theoretical advances
of the last few years.

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DO NOT HESITATE TO CONTACT THE ORGANISERS ie myself or Dave Dutton for 
any further information

with kind regards

Ilesh.

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Ilesh Dattani
SSRC (Safety Systems Research Centre)
Bristol
England.

Tel: +44 (0)117 954-5160
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