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Subject: brian smith's talk
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Date: Tue, 20-Jan-87 18:56:22 EST
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on clocks is actually this thursday, i believe. you intimated
in the digest that it had passed.

cheers,
peter


  [Rats! Mea culp.  Here is the correct listing.  -- KIL]

Date: Wed 14 Jan 87 17:45:10-PST
From: Emma Pease <Emma@CSLI.STANFORD.EDU>
Subject: CSLI Calendar, January 15, No.12

			
   2:15 p.m.		CSLI Seminar
     Classroom          The Semantics of Clocks
     Ventura Trailers  	Brian Smith
			(BrianSmith.pa@xerox.com)


                           NEXT WEEK'S SEMINAR
                         The Semantics of Clocks
                               Brian Smith
                               January 22

   Clocks participate in their subject matter.  Temporal by nature, they
   also represent time.  And yet, like other representational systems,
   clocks have been hard to build, and can be wrong.  For these and other
   reasons clocks are a good foil with which to explore issues in AI and
   cognitive science about computation, mind, and the relation between
   semantics and mechanism.
      An analysis will be presented of clock face content and the
   function of clockworks, and of various notions of chronological
   correctness.  The results are intended to illustrate a more general
   challenge to the formality of inference, to widen our conception of
   computation, and to clarify the conditions governing representational
   systems in general.