[*** NOTE TIME IS TUESDAY MORNING 10 am, LOCATION E351]


                     UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE
                 COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM
                                   
                               presents
                                      
                         "Intelligence by Design"
                                      
                               speaker:
                               
                        Dr. Joanna J. Bryson                          
                 (Computer Science, University of Bath) 
                                      
                    20 April 2004 (***Tuesday***)
                                      
                     Lecture Theatre ** E351 **
                     Hatfield, College Lane Campus
                         **  10 - 11 am **

                                      
              Coffee/tea and biscuits will be available.
                                      
                    Everyone is Welcome to Attend
                          [Space Permitting]
                                      
Abstract:
 
 One of the dark secrets of AI is that, with all our progress in
 learning and development, it still requires a lot of programming to
 make a working humanoid agent.  In this talk I will explain why this
 is true.  I will also present a methodology, Behavior Oriented Design,
 for optimising the amount of work the designers do with respect to the
 amount of learning the agent can do for itself.  I will show some of
 the agents I've developed with this methodology, including:
 
 * - new models of primate task learning,
 * - new models of primate social behaviour,
 * - old robot & maybe some old VR video (just to be flashy).
 
 For supporting papers, see:
 
 http://www.cs.bath.ac.uk/~jjb/web/publications.html

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Hertfordshire Computer Science Research Colloquium Abstracts
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