The Science & Society Distinguished Public Talks series continues Thursday, Oct. 9 with a talk presented by George Luger, professor of computer science, psychology and linguistics at the University of New Mexico. Luger’s talk, titled Modern Artificial Intelligence and the Stochastic Tradition, will be held at 5 p.m. in the Conference Center, rm. G at the UNM Continuing Education building located at 1634 University Blvd., N.E. The talk is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served at 4:30 p.m.
Photo: George Luger
Probabilistic forms of representation and reasoning have become important components of modern artificial intelligence (AI) technology. What is this change and how have earlier successes and failures of AI research brought it about? Luger’s will consider several concrete examples of diagnostic and prognostic reasoning and discuss probabilistic solutions for these problems.
After the talk, a discussion of why the stochastic approach has brought about both practical computational results as well as supported a modern (epistemological) analysis of the nature of intelligence itself will take place.
The Science & Society Distinguished Public Talks Co-sponsored by the Albuquerque Section of the Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Sigma Xi (the Scientific Research Society), the Department of Physics & Astronomy, the College of Arts & Sciences, the School of Engineering, the University Honors Program and the Division of Continuing Education.