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Highly recommended, please distribute to people you think might be
interested.
F I N A L C A L L for P A R T I C I P A T I O N !
Finnish Artificial Intelligence Days
STeP 2000 Aug 28-31.2000, Espoo&Helsinki, FINLAND
Late Registration Deadline August 27 or on-site.
The conference consists of four one-day symposia:
Conference language is English (but Aug31 in Finnish)
Day 1: Aug. 28 "Feedback"
Day 2: Aug. 29 "AI of Today"
Day 3: Aug. 30 "...Tomorrow..."
Day 4: Aug. 31 "... and Future" (this day in Finnish)
The main conference takes place during the two days, August 29-30, and
during that time distinguished plenary speakers will cover different
branches of concurrent AI:
Heikki Mannila: "Global and local modeling in data analysis"
Erkki Oja: "Data analysis, visualization, and hidden
factor discovery by unsupervised neural learning"
Henry Tirri: "Science of uncertainty: On the convergence
of mathematical statistics, information theory, and computer
science"
There will be a panel discussion on
"Computer Consciousness". A heated discussion is expected!
For more information look at the web pages:
PROGRAM ->
Final Program: http://Saato014.hut.fi/Hyotyniemi/STeS/STeP2000/Program.htm
REGISTRATION ->
Registration form:
http://Saato014.hut.fi/Hyotyniemi/STeS/STeP2000/RegistrationForm.pdf
Excellent Demos!!
http://Saato014.hut.fi/Hyotyniemi/STeS/STeP2000/Demos.htm
Ken Feingold's HEAD (Courtesy of KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art,
Helsinki)is on display during the conference!
Look at the video and you want to talk with it!
http://www.kiasma.fi/outoaly/en/token.htm
This is an addendum to the official program:
S P E C I A L W O R K S H O P O N A G E N T S :
The preliminary program of STEP 2000 Agent Session (Aug 29) is as follows:
15.00 - 15.20
Definition and Usage of a Software Agent
Santtu Toivonen, Sonera
15.20 - 15.40
Monads
Kimmo Raatikainen, University of Helsinki, Department of
Computer Science
15.40 - 16.00
Software Agents in Computer Telephone Integration
Saku Kaukonen, University of Oulu, MediaTeam
16.00 - 16.20
Experiences with Mobile Agents in Personal
Mobility Support
Henryka Jormakka, VTT
W E L C O M E !
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