UNM CS Student Conference proceedings now available

[Leigh Fanning]

A few folks mentioned interest in the proceedings and information on
lunch places.

The proceedings have been posted with the talk schedule here:

http://cs.unm.edu/~csgsa/conference/

The location is the new Centennial Engineering building on the west
end of campus, bordering University Blvd, just north of Central Ave.

Lunch options are heavily concentrated around Central and Harvard,
a 5 minute walk from the engineering complex.  There is a Satellite
coffee shop, the ever angst ridden RB Winnings coffee shop with good
sandwiches, El Patio (Mexican), Kai's (Chinese), Olympia (Greek),
several other quick sandwich places, and two Indian restaurants
on Yale, a block west of Harvard.

Leigh

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Melanie Mitchell, Portland State University and Santa Fe Institute                                                                                                                                                        
Thursday, 8 April, 2010
11 am - 12:00 pm
Centennial Engineering Center auditorium

Enabling computers to understand images remains one of the hardest
open problems in artificial intelligence.  No machine vision system
comes close to matching human ability at identifying the contents of
images or visual scenes or at recognizing similarity between different
scenes, even though such abilities pervade human cognition.  In this
talk I will describe research---currently in early stages---on
bridging the gap between low-level perception and higher-level image
understanding by integrating a cognitive model of perceptual
organization and analogy-making with a neural model of the visual
cortex.

Bio: Melanie Mitchell is Professor of Computer Science at Portland
State University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
She attended Brown University, where she majored in mathematics and
did research in astronomy, and the University of Michigan, where she
received a Ph.D. in computer science, working with her advisor Douglas
Hofstadter on the Copycat project, a computer program that makes
analogies.  She is the author or editor of five books and over 70
scholarly papers in in the fields of artificial intelligence,
cognitive science, and complex systems.  Her most recent book,
"Complexity: A Guided Tour", published in 2009 by Oxford University
Press, was named by Amazon.com as one of the ten best science books of
2009.

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[Nick Thompson]

All,

I had a look at procedings (see below) and it looks like if you ever had an
interest in finding out what the computer science department at UNM is on
about, this would be a tremendously efficient way.  The way these student
conferences usually work, in my experience, is that each faculty member has
students presenting on a range of problems within that faculty member's
interests, so it is a good chance to see what each faculty member is
thinking about.

It might also be a way to recruit graduate students to Complex projects, or
vice versa.  

I might meet the Unique Opportunity Rule.

Nick  

Nicholas S. Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Ethology,
Clark University ([hidden email])
http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/
http://www.cusf.org [City University of Santa Fe]

> [Original Message]
> From: Leigh Fanning <[hidden email]>
> To: <[hidden email]>
> Date: 4/7/2010 11:32:48 AM
> Subject: [FRIAM] UNM CS Student Conference proceedings now available
>
>
> A few folks mentioned interest in the proceedings and information on
> lunch places.
>
> The proceedings have been posted with the talk schedule here:
>
> http://cs.unm.edu/~csgsa/conference/
>
> The location is the new Centennial Engineering building on the west
> end of campus, bordering University Blvd, just north of Central Ave.
>
> Lunch options are heavily concentrated around Central and Harvard,
> a 5 minute walk from the engineering complex.  There is a Satellite
> coffee shop, the ever angst ridden RB Winnings coffee shop with good
> sandwiches, El Patio (Mexican), Kai's (Chinese), Olympia (Greek),
> several other quick sandwich places, and two Indian restaurants
> on Yale, a block west of Harvard.
>
> Leigh
>
> ---
>
> Melanie Mitchell, Portland State University and Santa Fe Institute      

> Thursday, 8 April, 2010
> 11 am - 12:00 pm
> Centennial Engineering Center auditorium
>
> Enabling computers to understand images remains one of the hardest
> open problems in artificial intelligence.  No machine vision system
> comes close to matching human ability at identifying the contents of
> images or visual scenes or at recognizing similarity between different
> scenes, even though such abilities pervade human cognition.  In this
> talk I will describe research---currently in early stages---on
> bridging the gap between low-level perception and higher-level image
> understanding by integrating a cognitive model of perceptual
> organization and analogy-making with a neural model of the visual
> cortex.
>
> Bio: Melanie Mitchell is Professor of Computer Science at Portland
> State University and External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute.
> She attended Brown University, where she majored in mathematics and
> did research in astronomy, and the University of Michigan, where she
> received a Ph.D. in computer science, working with her advisor Douglas
> Hofstadter on the Copycat project, a computer program that makes
> analogies.  She is the author or editor of five books and over 70
> scholarly papers in in the fields of artificial intelligence,
> cognitive science, and complex systems.  Her most recent book,
> "Complexity: A Guided Tour", published in 2009 by Oxford University
> Press, was named by Amazon.com as one of the ten best science books of
> 2009.
>
> ============================================================
> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org

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