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Subject: Connectionist Forum at U of Toronto, 31 March
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Date: Tue, 10-Mar-87 11:04:55 EST
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   CONNECTIONISM AND COMPUTATION: MODELS OF MIND IN THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES
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Monday, March 30, 1987, West Hall, University College, University of Toronto

Sponsored by: The McLuhan Program in Culture and Technology
	      The Specialist Program in Cognitive Science and
	      Artificial Intelligence.
	      Dept. of Psychology, University of Toronto
	      Dept. of Computer Science, University of Toronto

PROGRAM:

 9:30 Geoffrey Hinton, Dept. of Computer Science, Carnegie-Mellon
      University and University of Toronto.

      "What's in a Symbol?  Representing Hierarchical Structures in
      Connectionist Networks"

10:45 David Kirsh, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, M.I.T.

      "Some Mechanisms of Thought"

      LUNCH

2:00 Paul Smolensky, Dept. of Computer Science, University of
     Colorado.

     "On the Relation Between Symbolic and Connectionist Computation"

3:15 Zenon Pylyshyn, Center for Cognitive Science, University of
     Western Ontario

     "What are Connectionist Models About?"

4:30 Discussion


For further details contact Sylvia Wookey, McLuhan Program in Culture and
Technology, 39a Queens Park Circle, Toronto, Ont., M5S 1A1,  416-978-7026.
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\\\\   Graeme Hirst    University of Toronto	Computer Science Department
////   utcsri!utai!gh  /  gh@ai.toronto.edu  /	416-978-8747