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worksh[s86,jmc] Workshop proposals
Issues
1. overhead. I have decided not to pay overhead.
2. honoraria for speakers. No, in general.
3. Should AAAI be publisher of proceedings. No action at present.
4. They should report for Magazine.
List of sponsored workshops
f86.in[let,jmc]/437p
Workshops in AI sponsored by AAAI.
AAAI has a programme to sponsor workshops in particular areas of AI. So
far more than 20 have been sponsored. The format is not prescribed except
that this programme does not sponsor large conferences.
Here are some policies.
1. Up to $10K can be approved per workshop.
2. No honoraria for speakers or overhead to institutions will be paid.
3. Any workshop emphasizing commercial technology must be neutral
among the suppliers of relevant technology, e.g. people from the
different suppliers should be contacted and should have equal opportunity
to submit papers.
4. Proposals for science oriented workshops should be sent to
John McCarthy.
Electronic mail to JMC@SU-AI.STANFORD.EDU is preferred, but U.S.
mail to
Professor John McCarthy
Computer Science Department
Stanford, CA 94305
will also work. If you get impatient you can phone (415)723-4430.
5. Proposals should contain approximations to the following:
a. budget.
b. subject, detailed enough to evaluate relevance to AI
and possible overlap with other workshop proposals.
c. conditions of participation including how papers
and attendees are to be selected.
d. when and where if this is known.
e. program committee if this is known
6. Correspondence should be copied to AAAI-OFFICE@SUMEX.STANFORD.EDU
or to
Ms. Claudia Mazzetti, Executive Director
AAAI
445 Burgess St.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
You can phone her at (415)328-3123.
7. After McCarthy has approved the proposal further arrangements should
be made with Mazzetti at the AAAI office. This includes transfer of
money and possible help with publicity and workshop preprints and
publication.
8. After the workshop is finished there should be a report suitable
for publication in AI Magazine.
9. There should also be a financial report to the AAAI office, and
unexpended money is to be returned to AAAI.
10. AAAI assumes no financial responsibility for any debts or other
financial obligations that may be incurred by workshop organizers nor any
liabilities for their actions.
Priorities:
basic ai science
workshops not conferences
it wouldn't otherwise be held
ad hoc conference
Finished
Third International Conference on AI and Education
They want $20K, will only give 10, no honoraria and no overhead.
aaai-office@sumex,bonar@isl1.RI.CMU.EDU/cc
Third International Conference on AI and Education
Jeffrey Bonar and Stellan Ohlsson at the University of Pittsburgh
I have decided to give them $10K. This is to include neither overhead
nor honoraria for speakers. I'll send you a copy of their proposal.
They will be in touch with you.
1987 May 8,9 10 Pittsburgh
see s86.in[let,jmc]/565p with message from Bill Clancey
2nd Knowledge Acquisition Workshop
week before AAAI-87 in Seattle, 1987 July 6-10
Janusz Kowalik
aaai-office@sumex
2nd AAAI Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition for Knowledge Based Systems.
I have decided to support Kowalik's second workshop. I see you
have a copy of the proposal. That will be $5K. Please inform him.
e86.out[let,jmc]/226p
s86.in[let,jmc]/522p contains a proposal by Pelletier
declined June 20
see s86.in[let,jmc]/565p with message from Bill Clancey
aaai-office@sumex
Workshop on Complex Learning
by J.A. Self, University of Lancaster
I have decided to support this workshop as requested at $2500.
I'll send a copy of his letter.
Letter proposal from Wilks for support of TINLAP3. Asks $5K.
I'll ask Pereira what he thinks. He'll be back Thurs. or Fri.
request filed in chron under tinlap3
Sept. 2. Agreed to support workshop.
I have decided to support this one. A copy of the letter is on its
way, and Brown will phone you.
Sept. 8
letter from Frank Brown, U. of Kansas
1F1BROWN%UKANVAX.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
w. on Logical Solutions to the Frame Problem
U. of Kansas, 2 days in March 1986, agreed Sept. 8
Aug. 19
letter from Phil Cohen and Martha Pollack requesting $10K for
interdisciplinary workshop on Intention, Communication and Discourse
for March 1987. (re: aaai workshop), 859-4840, pcohen@sri-kepler
Cohen inquired Sept. 9. Called again Sep 17, committed $10K, said
no honoraria.
Approved 1986 Sept 22 for $10K
s86.in[let,jmc]/447p contains message from Kirsh about foundations
workshop. msg.msg[1,jmc]/169p,e86.in[let,jmc]/169p
e86.in[let,jmc]/506p has tentative schedule
aaai-office@sumex
Workshop in Foundations of AI approved
I have approved this workshop being organized by David Kirsh for $10K.
He will be in touch with you. kirsh not kurtz
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Subject: machine learning workshop
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From: Pat Langley <langley@CIP.UCI.EDU>
John - Could you tell me the status of our proposal for the 1987 Machine
Learning Workshop? We're in no rush to get funds, but it would be good
to know whether we can count on AAAI for partial support. Pat
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replied sept 22 asking for another copy of the proposal.
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langley@CIP.UCI.EDU
workshop
I have your proposal. I'll decide in a day or two about the secretary
part, but AAAI is good for the $5K anyway.
langley@CIP.UCI.EDU,aaai-office@sumex/cc
workshop
I consulted two people who have run workshops and they agree that
1/5 of a secretary is reasonable. Therefore, I have decided to
fund your full request for the 1987 Machine Learning Workshop of $9950.
Please make all further arrangements with Claudia Mazzetti at the
AAAI office. She is AAAI-OFFICE@SUMEX in addition to being reachable
by phone and U.S. Mail.
From: John Grefenstette <gref@nrl-aic>
I am serving as program chairman for the 2nd International
Conference on Genetic Algorithms and Their Applications.
The Conference is tentatively scheduled for July 28-31, 1987
at MIT. We are seeking nominal support ($2K) from AAAI
in order to subsidize student registration fees.
f86.in[let,jmc]/99p
msg.msg[1,jmc]/99p
approved 1986 Oct 15
From: George Wied
I have decided to turn down your request for a grant of $7500 from
AAAI to support the First International Conference on Artificial
Intelligence Systems (Expert Systems) as Diagnostic Consultants for the
Cytologic and Histologic Diagnosis of Cancer.
letter dated oct 15, reply is wied.1[let,jmc] dated oct 27
from Joshi for additional summer money
msg.msg[1,jmc]/49p
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Supported 1986 Oct 27
Turned down 1987 Mar 24 as insufficiently related to AI
*
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Subject: [MARY%UK.AC.UMIST.CCL%UK.AC.UMIST@ac.uk: AAAI funding for workshops]
To: jmc@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
Telephone: (415) 328-3123
Postal-Address: 445 Burgess Drive, Menlo Park, CA 94025
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John,
For your review...
Claudia
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Subject: AAAI funding for workshops
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 87 10:07:58 +0000
From: MARY%UK.AC.UMIST.CCL%UK.AC.UMIST@ac.uk
Dear Claudia Mazzetti,
I sent you a net message about two weeks ago, enquiring about
the conditions for AAAI workshop funding, and notifying you of my
intention to submit an application for support for our forthcoming
Manchester workshop on "Computing Japanese". In case that message has
disappeared in transit, I'm appending it to this, and also including a
the full application. (I'd be grateful if you could acknowledge
receipt) --
Date: Tue, 10 Mar 87 16:45:14 +0000
From: mary
Dear Claudia Mazzetti,
We are holding a small invited workshop on 'Computing Japanese'
here in Manchester, in the Centre for Computational Linguistics,
UMIST, next September. Some funding has been promised, but not enough
to cover our intended programme (L.4,600 of an estimated total of
L.15,000). I have been encouraged by Don Walker to apply to you (as
well as to ACL) for financial support: the point of this message is to
ask for confirmation, a) that such an application would be in order, b)
that you are the appropriate addressee, and c) that netmail is an
acceptable medium. I would be grateful also for some indication of the
approximate sum it would be reasonable to ask you for.
Yours with thanks,
Mary McGee Wood
(arpa: mmw%uk.ac.umist@cs.ucl.ac.uk)
==========================
Submission to the American Association for for Artificial
Intelligence for funding for a workshop on "Computing Japanese",
to be held at the Centre for Computational Linguistics,
University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in
September 1987 in association with the UMIST Alvey/ICL Japanese
translation project
Research on computational treatments of the Japanese
language is now widespread both geographically and in its
practical and intellectual direction. The research effort in
Japan is being carried out on a major scale, while active
interest in the US and the UK is growing rapidly. Work is under
way on parsing, lexicography, speech recognition and synthesis,
discourse, and translation; the linguistic theories which have
informed computational grammars of Japanese include (at least)
Categorial Grammar, Description Theory, Generalized Phrase
Structure Grammar, Lexical-Functional Grammar, Lexicase Grammar,
and Systemic Grammar. Our Alvey- funded English-to-Japanese
machine translation project in the Centre for Computational
Linguistics, UMIST should be seen as a contribution to these
wider overall national and international enterprises.
To bring together some of the many researchers in this
field, we are seeking sponsorship for a small invited workshop on
"Computing Japanese" which will be held here in Manchester next
September. Such a workshop would provide a valuable opportunity
for an exchange of ideas within this specialized but
international field. Research in the U.S. and Britain can only
benefit from contact with distinguished colleagues from overseas;
the Japanese research effort is notable for both its scale and
quality, and undeservedly unfamiliar in the West.
A provisional schedule of topics and possible participants
is appended. On a rough initial costing, we will need a total of
c L15,000. Of this, we have been awarded L4,000 by the Great
Britain - Sasakawa Foundation, earmarked for travel expenses for
Japanese participants, and L600 by the Department of Languages
and Linguistics, UMIST. International Computers Limited (ICL)
have agreed in principle to provide some L2-3,000. Applications
have been made to the Association for Computational Linguistics,
the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the
Simulation of Behaviour, and the Economic and Social Science
Research Council, but all these bodies have strictly limited
funds available.
Thus we would like to ask for the sum of $5,000 from the
American Association for Artificial Intelligence to support this
workshop. This contribution would very significantly enhance the
quality of the occasion, both in the number of participants who
could be accommodated and the scale of our organization and
hospitality. We would of course be happy to offer the Association
copies of the proceedings, and/ or to invite a representative to
participate, if this were to be welcome.
The Alvey/ICL workshop on "Linguistic Theory and Computer
Applications" which was held at UMIST in September 1985 was
agreed by all participants to have been outstandingly successful,
and has led to a number of significant continuing contacts for
the Centre and within the wider international natural language
processing community. Full transcripts of that meeting,
originally produced as a CCL/UMIST report and an Alvey document,
are now being commercially published by Academic Press, who have
expressed a similar interest in the present proposal; although
we would be equally happy with other forms of publication.
An invited workshop on "Computing Japanese" would make an
inherently worthwhile contribution to research and development in
an important and expanding international field, and would foster
valuable links among researchers in advanced natural language
processing in Britain, the United States, and Japan. We hope
therefore that this request for funding will be received
sympathetically.
Mary McGee Wood
(Coordinator, the UMIST
Japanese project)
23 March 1987
CCL, UMIST
P.O. Box 88
Manchester M60 1QD
U.K.
arpa:mmw%uk.ac.umist@cs.ucl.ac.uk
Provisional plan and costing:
Date: 1 - 3 September 1987
Format and topics:
I. Linguistic theories and the syntax of Japanese
(1 hour presentation plus 1 hour discussion for each)
1. Categorial Grammar - Mary Dalrymple
2. Description Theory - Mitch Marcus
3. Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar - Takao Gunji
4. Lexical-Functional Grammar - Hideki Yasukawa
5. Lexicase Grammar - Stan Starosta
6. Systemic Grammar - John Bateman
II. Topics and applications
(80 minutes presentation plus 1 hour discussion for each PAIR)
1. Discourse
a. In Japan -
b. Elsewhere - Megumi Kameyama
2. Speech and intonation
a. In Japan -
b. Elsewhere - Mary Beckman
3. Lexicography
a. In Japan - __, EDR
b. Elsewhere - Frank Knowles
4. Translation
a. Japanese - English - Jun-ichi Tsujii
b. English - Japanese - Peter Whitelock
Provisional list of possible participants (maximum 30)
U.K.:
From CCL, UMIST:
Mary McGee Wood joint local
Natsuko Holden organizers
Paul Bennett
Brian Chandler
Heather Horsfall
J. McNaught
Elaine Pollard
J. C. Sager
Harold Somers
From the Sheffield Japanese - English translation project:
Mary Gillender
Malcolm James
George Jelinek
Branimir Boguraev, Cambridge
Steven Isard, Sussex
Frank Knowles, Aston
Nick Ostler, Scicon
Graeme Ritchie, Edinburgh
Russ Thomas, Warwick
Henry Thompson, Edinburgh
Peter Whitelock, Edinburgh
__, Alvey
__, ICL
__, Longman
Europe:
Rod Johnson, Geneva
Japan:
Shinya Amano, Toshiba
John Bateman, Kyoto
Takao Gunji, Osaka
Kuniaki Mukai, ICOT
Makoto Nagao, Kyoto
Hirosato Nomura, NTT, Tokyo
Hozumi Tanaka, Tokyo I. T.
Jun-ichi Tsujii, Kyoto
Hideki Yasukawa, Matsushita
__, Advanced Telephony Research
__, Electronic Dictionary Research
U.S.A.:
Mary Beckman, Ohio State
Mary Dalrymple, Stanford
Megumi Kameyama, MCC, Texas
Mitch Marcus, AT&T Bell Labs
Stan Starosta, Hawaii
Masaru Tomita, Carnegie-Mellon
Approximate costing (in L. sterling):
Participants from U.K. : 18?
from Japan : 6?
from U.S. : 6?
Subsistence: 18 people x L.30 x 2 days (UK) = 1080
12 x L.30 x 3 = 1080
Travel - 10 x 40 = 400
6 x 800 = 4800
6 x 1200 = 7200
Extras - photocopying, telephone, &c &c : 400
Possible total = L.15,000
Promised to date:
Definitely : L.4,000 (The Great Britain - Sasakawa Foundation)
600 (Dept. of Language and Linguistics, UMIST)
Provisionally : L.2,000 - 3,000 (International Computers Limited)
Other outstanding applications:
Association for Computational Linguistics
Economic and Social Science Research Council
Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the
Simulation of Behaviour
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Touretzky proposal accepted 1987 July 21
s87.in[let,jmc]/591p Connectionist school proposal from Touretzky
∂21-Jul-87 0128 TOURETZKY@C.CS.CMU.EDU connectionist summer school
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Subject: connectionist summer school
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I never got a reply to this. Did the original message reach you?
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From: Dave.Touretzky@C.CS.CMU.EDU
Subject: connectionist models summer school
To: jmc@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
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John,
Last year Geoff Hinton, Terry Sejnowski and I organized a nine day
Connectionist Models Summer School at CMU. We are seeking funds to hold
another one in 1988. The original summer school, which cost a little under
$30,000, was sponsored by a grant from the Sloan Foundation. For the next one
we are hoping to find three sponsors willing to share the expense. We already
have a tentative commitment from Lee Giles at AFOSR for $10,000.
The first summer school brought together 40 students, including 5 from Europe,
and sixteen tutors and guest lecturers. We received nearly 150 applications
for the available places. The increasing interest in connectionism, the
continuing shortage of researchers in this area, and the enthusiasm of the
first set of attendees lead us to believe that it ought to be repeated.
The primary goal of the summer school is to nurture and train new
connectionists, mainly graduate students, but also junior faculty members. The
people we seek have already begun working in the area, but are isolated and
would thus benefit from an intensive exposure to some of the leaders of the
field. The faculty of the first summer school consisted of Dana Ballard and
Jerry Feldman from Rochester, David Rumelhart and Pat Churchland from UCSD,
Paul Smolensky from UC Boulder, Andy Barto from UMass, Christof Koch from MIT,
Jim Anderson from Brown, David Tank from AT&T Bell Laboratories, Robert Hummel
from NYU, David Willshaw from the Medical Research Council (Edinburgh), Scott
Fahlman and Jay McClelland from CMU, plus Hinton, Sejnowski, and me. The
program was divided between tutorial lectures in the morning and small
discussion groups in the afternoon, each led by a faculty member. There was
also time set aside for demos in the evenings, and several attendees used our
local computing facilities to conduct research.
Would AAAI be interested in co-sponsoring the 1988 summer school? I spoke with
Raj and Claudia about it, and they suggested that funding might be arranged
through the workshop program you administer. If you would agree to contribute
$10,000, I would have no trouble raising the remainder. Please let me know
what you think.
Thanks, -- Dave
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Inquiries that aren't proposals yet
e86.in[let,jmc]/427p from Bonnie Webber, answered Sept 22
sept 12
sjg intends a proposal for another non-monotonic workshop
Workshop on learning pre-proposal from Sleeman and Buchanan
s86.in[let,jmc]/585p
aaai-office@sumex
another
I have a pre-proposal from Derek Sleeman and Bruce Buchanan for
a workshop on learning around the time of IJCAI-87 to be held in
Aberdeen. No action needed yet as I've asked for detailed proposal.
Nov 26, letter from Veronica Dahl to Claudia
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To: aaai-office@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
Subject: AIM Workshop 1987
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From: <IRA@UWAFRODO.BITNET>
Subject: AIM Workshop 1987
To: aaai-office@sumex-aim.stanford.edu
X-Original-To: aaai-office@sumex-aim.stanford.edu, IRA
To: Claudia Mazzetti, AAAI office
From: Ira Kalet, University of Washington
Subject: AIM Workshop
I am organizing an Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Workshop for 1987
along the lines of earlier AIM workshops, but in a slightly more abbreviated
format, only one day. I would like to know if the date we have selected
would pose any problem in regard to AAAI-87. We chose this date in order
to facilitate attendance at both the AIM Workshop and AAAI-87, which is
why the organizing falls on me.
In addition, we would like to know if AAAI can provide support for this
workshop. Our specific needs are to be able to fund some graduate student
travel, provide a hosted lunch, and also to do a paper mailing to the AAAI-M
mailing list to supplement the on-line mailing. I expect the amount would be
similar to past workshops.
Following is a copy of the latest version of the AIM Workshop announcement
and the tentative program.
I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Ira Kalet
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN MEDICINE - AIM WORKSHOP 1987
July 12, 1987
University of Washington
Seattle, Washington
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
The Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) Workshop has been an
annual tradition for nearly a decade. The community of researchers active in
applying artificial intelligence techniques in the medical domain has each
year met to hear reports on the current status of ongoing projects, to see and
critique demonstrations of running systems, and to discuss issues of
importance to their research. This group, though relatively small, has had a
substantial positive effect on the broader field of artificial intelligence,
particularly in the areas of expert systems and knowledge representation.
The small size of the group (fewer than 100 attendees) has made it
possible for this workshop to fulfill an important community-building
function, as opportunities are provided for graduate students and other young
researchers to meet and talk informally with senior figures in the field.
Earlier AIM Workshops have been held in several centers of research
activity, including Stanford, Rutgers, MIT, the University of Pittsburgh, Ohio
State University, and the National Library of Medicine. In 1987, the Workshop
will be hosted by the University of Washington, just prior to the National
Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-87) in Seattle, Washington. It is
hoped that this will give Workshop participants ongoing opportunities for
contact and facilitate participation in AAAI-87.
The 1987 AIM Workshop program will be only a single day, and will
emphasize small informal meetings and discussion. A short plenary session in
the morning will be followed by a series of topical discussion groups. We
hope this format will give ample opportunity for new voices to share their
ideas and work, as well as for more experienced investigators to offer
guidance and commentary.
Participation is by invitation, and will be limited to about 90
participants. This year, to help us identify those who would most benefit
from as well as contribute to the workshop, we are asking that those
interested in attending submit an extended abstract, no more than two pages
(1000 words), describing their work, plans or interest in artificial
intelligence in medicine, to the Workshop Chair, Ira Kalet, Radiation Oncology
Department, M/S RC-08, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195.
The deadline for abstracts is March 15, 1987. Invitations will be issued
by April 15, 1987.
We are also looking for topical group discussion leaders. If you
would like to lead a discussion group, please contact the Workshop Chair.
Some support to assist in defraying expenses for student attendees
may be available. Contact the Workshop Chairman for further information.
Program Committee, AIM Workshop 1987
Ira J, Kalet, University of Washington (Chairman)
(206) 548-4107
IRA@UWAFRODO (BITNET)
IRA%UWAFRODO.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU (ARPANET)
Jack Smith, Ohio State University
(614) 293-5220
JSMITH%OSU-20@OHIO-STATE.ARPA (ARPANET)
Peter Szolovits, MIT
PSZ@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU (ARPANET)
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At this point I see a program roughly as follows:
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AIM WORKSHOP 1987 (80-90 invited participants)
8:30 AM to 10:30 AM - Plenary Session
four 30 minute (20 + questions) talks, the best of the abstracts
10:30 to 10:45 AM - coffee break
10:45 AM to 12:15 PM - Small Group Discussions I (6 parallel groups, 15 each)
12:15 to 1:30 PM - Banquet Lunch
1:30 to 3:00 PM - Small Groups II
3:00 to 3:15 PM - Coffee Break II
3:15 to 4:45 PM - Small Groups III
PARTICIPATION:
Participation will be by invitation only, and all invitations
will be either:
a. on review of an extended abstract (no more than 2 pages) - this should
describe work completed or in progress, or in the planning stages to allow for
some new people who may only just be getting started. Acceptance of an
abstract will mean an invitation to participate, but only the 4 best abstracts
will be presented. Abstracts will also be used to make assignments to topical
discussion groups.
b. to someone we know who can serve as a discussion leader or facilitator.
c. to someone we know who is a significant resource person whose participation
would be valuable.
(for b. and c., invitees will not need to submit abstracts.)
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A few weeks ago I had sent a request for support of the Theoretical
Issues in Conceptual Information Processing Workshop being planned in
U of Maryland for early June. Since a number of planning activities
will need to be initiated, it will be helpful to hear about AAAI support
that was requested in my ealrlier message. If the message is lost,
pl. let me know, and I'll remail my copy of it.
f86.in[let,jmc]/565p
reply outgo.msg[1,jmc]/61p 1987 april 21
s87.out[1,jmc]/70p,s87.in[1,jmc]/133p
Thanks.
Chandrasekaran
-------Agreed to $5K April 22.
Sloman proposal on foundations msg.msg[1,jmc]/14p,s87.in[let,jmc]
april 21 reply outgo.msg[1,jmc]/60p,s87.out[let,jmc]
he will propose again later
Cheeseman's third workshop, $5K→$3K
msg.msg[1,jmc]/37p,s87.in[let,jmc]/37p
Sullivan proposal msg.msg[1,jmc]/110p, $5K
intelligent interfaces
Gale proposal, letter in tchron→$5K
Bell Labs, AI and statistics
Michael Reinfrank msg.msg[1,jmc]/206p→$10K
non-monotonic reasoning
Don Walker proposal for linguistics workshop support
msg.msg[1,jmc]/226p→$5K
aaai-office@sumex
Workshop approvals
I have decided to approve the following workshops, and this empties
my stack.
Cheeseman $3K (note that this is less than requested)
Sullivan on intelligent interfaces → $5K
Gale on AI and Statistics
Reinfrank on non-monotonic reasoning → $10K
Walker on linguistics workshops → $5K
I'll communicate with the proposers and they will contact you.
∂04-Jul-87 2345 Kahn.pa@Xerox.COM Workshop support from AAAI
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From: Ken Kahn <Kahn.pa@Xerox.COM>
Subject: Workshop support from AAAI
To: JMC@SAIL.STANFORD.EDU
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I am mailing you the following letter through the postal service, but
thought I might get a faster response if I sent it electonically too.
Dear John,
I am writing you because I understand you are responsible for AAAI
support for workshops.
A group of us here at PARC in the Knowledge Systems Area under Mark
Stefik are organizing a small informal workshop on concurrent
committed-choice logic programming, meta-programming, and open systems
on September 8 and 9. We are taking advantage of the fact that many
researchers in logic programming will be at the Fourth IEEE Symposium on
Logic Programming in San Francisco the week before. We are not planning
on providing any transportation or living expenses but would like to
provide breakfasts, lunchs, and coffee for the participants. We are
expecting about 20 to 40 participants. Xerox is organizing and
providing the meeting facilities We are writing you to ask for a $1000
from AAAI to cover our expenses for this workshop. We would be glad to
write a workshop report for the AI Magazine if desired.
Enclosed is a draft of the announcement for the workshop which we will
be sending out soon.
We are inviting only people who know a good deal about languages like
Concurrent Prolog, Guarded Horn Clauses, or Parlog. If you are
interested in participating or know anyone at Stanford who is don't
hesitate to let me know. If you have any questions please contact me
(Kahn.pa@Xerox.Com).
Sincerely,
Kenneth M. Kahn
cc: Ms. Claudia Mazzetti
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We are pleased to announce that Xerox PARC will host a workshop on
concurrent committed-choice logic programming, meta-programming, and
open systems programming on September 8 and 9 (the first business days
after the Fourth IEEE Symposium on Logic Programming in San Francisco).
Participation is by invitation only. The purpose of the workshop is to
promote informal scientific interchanges between members of various
laboratories doing research centered around committed choice logic
programming languages such Guarded Horn Clauses and KL1 at ICOT, Parlog
at Imperial College, FCP at Weizmann Institute of Science, and Vulcan at
Xerox PARC. Other topics of interest include meta-programming to
support programming abstractions and issues related to programming large
open distributed systems. The format of the workshop will consist of
informal presentations and discussions of work in progress.
Presentations given at the Fourth SLP are not to be repeated. There
will be several panel discussions on topics such as the different
proposals for dataflow synchronization in these languages, the role of
meta-programming in supporting abstractions, and why it is that there
are several indepenent implementation efforts for different dialects of
concurrent logic programming languages (or are they committed choice
programming langauges or open systems programming languages?).
Live demonstrations of software is encouraged. Available computers
include Xerox computers running Xerox Common Lisp, Vaxes under Unix
4.2BSD, Sun 3's, IBM PC's, and Macintoshes (SE and II).
We will not be covering participants' transportation or living expenses.
We are expecting between 20 and 40 participants. If you are interested
in coming, or know someone who might be, please send a letter or
electronic message indicating what you would like to talk about or demo
to:
Kenneth Kahn
Xerox PARC
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(415) 494-4390
or
ArpaNet: Kahn.pa@Xerox.Com
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Here's the preliminary list of invitees:
Ehud Shapiro, Weizmann Institute
Shmuael Klinger, Weizmann Institute
Vijay Saraswat, CMU
Leon Sterling, Case Western Reserve
Keith Clark, Imperial College
Steve Gregory, Imperial College
Andrew Davison, Imperial College
M. Huntbach, Imperial College
Mitsuhiro Kishimoto, Fujitsu
Y. Takayama, ICOT
A. Okumura, ICOT
Y. Kimura, ICOT
H. Seki, ICOT
T. Chikayama, ICOT
Kazonuri Ueda, ICOT
K. Furukawa, ICOT
Fernando Pereira, SRI
Tony Kusalik, Univ. of Saskatchewan
Leon Alkalaj, UCLA
Richard O'Keefe, Quintus Compter Systems
Bill Kornfeld
Lee Naish, Melbourne University
G. Levi, University of Pisa
Walter Wilson, IBM
M. Maher, IBM
Carl Hewitt, MIT
Will Clinger, Tektronics
Mark Miller, Xerox PARC
Danny Bobrow, Xerox PARC
Curtis Abbott, Xerox PARC
Ken Kahn, Xerox PARC
Eric Tribble, Xerox PARC
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workshop support
AAAI will grant $1,000 to your "small informal workshop on concurrent
committed-choice logic programming, meta-programming, and open systems
on September 8 and 9". Please arrange details with Claudia Mazzetti
at the AAAI office.
∂03-Aug-87 2207 stefik.pa@Xerox.COM Open Systems Workshop
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From: Mark stefik <stefik.pa@Xerox.COM>
Subject: Open Systems Workshop
To: JMC@Sail.Stanford.EDU
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John,
Did you receive the request Bernardo Huberman and myself for AAAI to
sponsor a workshop on Open Systems (costing $5-7K) next January?
Originally, we were interested in a much greater sponsorship (covering
travel) and at Claudia's advice submitted it to Raj Reddy. He approved
a trimmed down version, but then Claudia suggested that we get your
approval too, in your role as chairman of the workshops.
I think that we are in limbo pending your approval. Have you decided?
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stefik.pa@xerox.com,aaai-office@sumex
AAAI will support the workshop on Open Systems for up to $7K. Please
make all further arrangements with Claudia Mazzetti.
∂26-Jul-87 1447 norvig%cogsci.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU A proposal for a AAAI-sponsored workshop
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From: norvig%cogsci.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Peter Norvig)
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To: JMC@sail.stanford.edu
Subject: A proposal for a AAAI-sponsored workshop
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Proposal for AAAI Sponsorship
of a Workshop on
Knowledge Representation
in the UNIX Help Domain
*** Subject of the Workshop
Knowledge representation is a central problem within Artificial
Intelligence (AI). Almost all AI programs, be they natural
language processors, expert systems, or any other type, make use of
knowledge representation techniques. Up to now, it has been hard
to compare the details of the various approaches, and to evaluate
their performance, since they have been developed to deal with
different tasks in different domains. We have recently found that
there is a ``critical mass'' of international researchers working
in the domain of Intelligent User Interfaces to the UNIX operating
system. We have identified twenty-one groups in France, England,
Germany, Israel and the United States working on aspects of this
problem.
We propose to hold a workshop which would bring these researchers
together for the first time, and use the domain of Intelligent UNIX
Interfaces to explore and compare various knowledge representation
formalisms. We feel this would be very appropriate for sponsorship
by ICSI.
A detailed comparison of knowledge representation techniques would
be useful not only to the researchers involved, but also to the AI
community at large. Thus, we plan to publish the proceedings of
this workshop as a book. Both Springer Verlag and Addison-Wesley
have expressed preliminary interest in this project.
By Intelligent User Interface, we mean a system that allows a naive
user to ask questions, and answers in the manner of an expert in
the domain. Some of these systems also volunteer active advice --
they observe the user's actions, and suggest ways he or she could
achieve goals faster. An important part of this is modeling the
user's knowledge and beliefs.
All these systems make heavy use of a plan recognition and plan
generation component. We believe it is more useful to evaluate
knowledge representation languages with respect to a task, and
planning provides a common task to discuss. In the early days of
planning, the ``blocks world'' served as a common domain.
Experience has shown that the UNIX domain is more complex, for a
variety of reasons, and that it has spurred research into new
planning algorithms. This workshop would be the first to bring
together AI researchers working in the same domain -- for any
domain, not just UNIX. We believe that promoting the idea of
domain-based workshops would be of benefit to others, since it
would allow for direct comparison and evaluation of competing
knowledge representation schemes. Another benefit of the workshop
could be to identify for ICSI the most promising questions for
knowledge representation research in the future.
*** Budget
We have seen an enthusiastic response to our initial tentative
mailing about the workshop. We expect attendance by an average of
two researchers from each of the twenty-one groups. We propose to
grant an average of $1000 per group to offset travel and
accommodations expenses, for a total of $21,000. (This will vary
somewhat based on distance travelled, and on funds available to the
groups from other sources. Several groups have already raised
their own expense funding.) Local expenses (postage, conference
rooms, xeroxing, and support staff) will add $4000.
We are also seeking partial sponsorship and financial support from
the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley. We hope
that they will supply $15,000 and that AAAI will supply $10,000.
If less funding is available, we would have to decrease the
allowance to each group, and would expect a corresponding drop in
attendance and in the quality of the workshop.
*** Conditions of Participation
We would like to keep the workshop small to encourage discussion,
and to keep the issues focused. We believe we have contacted most
if not all research groups that are active in this narrow domain,
and thus are not seeking other participants. However, if AAAI has
some suggestions on further advertising a call for participation,
we would be willing to oblige.
*** When and Where
We plan to hold the workshop December 9-11, at or near the
University of California, Berkeley. Berkeley is an appropriate
site for this workshop for several reasons. Historically, Berkeley
supported development of UNIX in the form of BSD UNIX, and it was
also the site of the first Unix Consultant, UC. In addition, the
range of computers available at UC Berkeley will allow the various
groups to demonstrate their systems. We are in the process of
making local arrangements now.
*** Program Committee
The program committee consists of:
Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster, University of Saarbrucken, West Germany
Dr. Robert Wilensky, University of California, Berkeley, USA
Dr. Peter Norvig, University of California, Berkeley, USA
*** Other
If supported by AAAI, we agree to supply a report suitable for
inclusion in the AI Magazine. We also agree to furnish a financial
report, and return any unused funds to AAAI. We will mention AAAI
sponsorship in all written material related to the workshop. The
workshop will not emphasize commercial technologies.
Thank you for considering this proposal. We hope to hear from you
soon.
Peter Norvig
Aug. 3
norvig%cogsci.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU,aaai-office/cc
representation in the unix domain workshop
AAAI will support it with $10K. Please make all further arrangements
with Claudia Mazzetti.
Pending Proposals
Leslie Burkholder, cmu
"lb0q#"@andrew.cmu.edu
workshop material june 9
Les Gasser
msg.msg[1,jmc]/431p