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Subject: Brian Smith talks at UofT May 7-8 on AI and Cog. Sci.
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Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 14:55:33 EDT
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Announcing two seminars at the University of Toronto, May 7-8, 1987:

McLUHAN CENTRE COGNITIVE SCIENCE SEMINAR --- Thursday May 7th

 Speaker: Brian Cantwell Smith (Xerox PARC, CSLI, and Stanford)
 Title: "Formal Symbol Manipulation: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone"
 Time: Thursday, May 7th, 4pm
 Place: McLuhan Centre, The Coach House, 39A Queens Park Crescent


AI SEMINAR --- Friday May 8th

 Speaker: Brian Cantwell Smith (Xerox PARC, CSLI, and Stanford)
 Title: "Designing a Situated Inference Engine"
 Time: Friday, May 8th, 11am
 Place: Sandford Fleming Building, Room 1105, 10 King's College Circle

                          ABSTRACT

According to the "situated" perspective, the structure of both language
and reasoning arise out of mutual constraints between a system and its
embedding environment.  The Situated Inference Engine is a pilot project
exploring this perspective in the context of a simple scheduling system.
In this talk I will review the situated perspective, introduce the SIE,
present the language it will use to communicate with its users, and
discuss our current conception of its internal architecture.



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