Confirmed Invited Speakers

Sheldon Klein

Computer Sciences Department, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin, US

SHELDON KLEIN is a Professor of Computer Sciences & Linguistics at U. of Wisconsin, Madison, US and is currently teaching courses titled, "Natural Language & Multimedia" and "Analogy in Language, Culture & Cognition." His background includes a Ph.D. Linguistics, UC-Berkeley, US, 1963.; AI Research Group, System Development Corp. 1961-64; Asst. Prof. of Linguistics & Comp Sci, Carnegie-Mellon (CIT), US 1964-66; Assoc. Prof. Comp. Sci, & Linguistics, U. Wisconsin, US, 1966-73; IREX Sr. Scholar, Machine Translation Laboratory, Foreign Languages Institute, Moscow, 1973; Visiting Director of Studies, L'Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales, Paris, France 1976-77; Visiting Prof., Faculty for Linguistics and Literary Studies, U. Bielefeld, Germany, 1977-78; Visiting Fellow, Clare Hall & Archaeology Dept., Cambridge U., England 1988; Visiting Life Member in Residence, Clare Hall, Cambridge U., England 1995; Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; Fellow, American Anthropological Association; American Assoc. for Artificial Intelligence, Assoc. for Computational Linguistics, Cognitive Science Society, Linguistic Society of America, Society for Linguistic Anthropology, Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, & Sigma Xi. For related details: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~sklein/sklein.html

Stephen Nachmanovitch

Free Play Productionsm,Los Angeles, US

STEPHEN NACHMANOVITCH is an author, musician, computer artist, and educator. Born in 1950, he studied at Harvard, US and the University of California, US where he earned a Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness for an exploration of William Blake. His mentor was the anthropologist and philosopher Gregory Bateson. He has taught and lectured widely in the United States and abroad on creativity and the spiritual underpinnings of art. Since 1976 he has given solo improvisation concerts on violin, viola, and electric violin, and has presented workshops at many conservatories and universities. He has performed internationally, and has had numerous appearances on radio, television, and at music and theater festivals. He has collaborated with other artists in media including music, dance, theater, and film, and has developed programs melding art, music, literature, and computer technology. He has published articles in a variety of fields since 1966, and is the author of ``Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art'' (Putnam, 1990). In recent years he has created computer software including The World Music Menu and Visual Music Tone Painter. He is currently working on a new book on creativity called Genius & Magic. He lives with his wife and two sons in Los Angeles, US. see http://www.freeplay.com

Gérard Sabah

LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, FRANCE

GÉRARD SABAH graduated from the `Ecole Polytechnique' in 1971 and entered the CNRS in the same year. Besides his engineering degree from the Polytechnique, further degrees include a 'Diplome d'etudes Approfondies' (DEA) in 1972, then a 'Doctorat de 3eme cycle' (1975) (subject: automatic learning of pattern recognition operators) and a 'Doctorat d'etat es Sciences' (1978) on Natural Language Understanding by Computers. He is currently a Research Director at CNRS, and the head of the Language and Cognition group at LIMSI (Laboratoire d'Informatique et de Mecanique pour les Sciences de l'Ingenieur: Computer Sciences and Mechanics for Engineering Laboratory). He is the author of the two volumes 'L'intelligence artificielle et le langage' (vol. 1: Knowledge Representation; vol. 2: Understanding Processes), published by Hermes, Paris. His present interest is the study of the cognitive processes in natural language understanding, acquisition and generation. The main activities of his group (currently about 25 people) concern multi-agent architectures for text analysis and understanding, flexible parsing, dialogue processing, reasoning mechanisms, generation and learning. Until recently he was responsible of the natural language pole of the Man-Machine Communication PRC (National Programme of Co-ordinated Research) and responsible for the Cognitive Science Network in southern Paris, a network of universities and research laboratories working in Cognitive Science. He has also been the president of the French Association for Cognitive Research. He is presently member of the AFIA (French Association for Artificial Intelligence - member of the ECCAI federation) bureau and editor in chief of its journal. see: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/gs/

Ipke Wachsmuth

Faculty of Technology, University of Bielefeld, GERMANY

IPKE WACHSMUTH has held the chair of Knowledge-Based Systems/ Artificial Intelligence in the Faculty of Technology at the University of Bielefeld, Germany for the past ten years. He holds a Master's degree in mathematics (Dipl.-Math.), obtained in 1975 from the Technical University of Hanover, Germany, where he also obtained his Ph.D. (Dr.rer.nat) in 1980 for research in cellular automata synchronization, and a Habilitation degree in Computer Science which he obtained from the University of Osnabrueck, Germany, in 1989, for research on knowledge base organization. Before coming to Bielefeld, he held faculty and project leader positions in the Department of Mathematics/Computer Science and the Linguistics Department at the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. He was also assistant professor in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at Northern Illinois University in 1981-83 and research fellow in the LILOG group at IBM Germany in 1986- 88. Prof. Wachsmuth has a strong multidisciplinary commitment and has published in the fields of cellular automata, cognitive learning research, intelligent tutoring systems, natural language understanding, AI technology assessment, expert and agent systems, large knowledge bases, virtual reality, and gestural interaction. His current research activities cover virtual environments, dynamic knowledge representations and multi-agent techniques in the context of multimodal human-machine communication. Among many other professional services, Ipke Wachsmuth chaired the 19th Annual German AI Conference in 1995 and is the chair for the 4th Conference of the German Cognitive Science Society to take place in Bielefeld, 1999. see: http://www.techfak.uni-bielefeld.de/~ipke/

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