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Le séminaire iPAC du 22 mai 2013 aura lieu dans l'Amphi du LORIA (Nancy) à 13h30.

Orateur: Stuart RUSSELL, Computer Science Division, University of California, Berkeley and LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie.

L'orateur est soutenu par, et cette présentation est donnée sous les auspices de, la Chaire Internationale de Recherche Blaise Pascal financée par l'état et la Région d'île de France, gérée par la Fondation de l'école Normale Supérieure

Titre : Unifying logic and probability: A "New Dawn" for Artificial Intelligence?

Transparents : au format PDF.

Résumé :
Logic and probability are ancient subjects whose unification holds significant potential for the field of artificial intelligence. A recent cover article in New Scientist went so far as to announce an "Intelligence Revolution" and a "New Dawn for AI". This talk will explain some of the underlying technical ideas and their application.

Bio :
Stuart Russell is Professor (and former Chair) of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and holds the Smith--Zadeh Chair in Engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. He currently holds the Chaire Blaise Pascal in Paris, hosted by the Universite Pierre et Marie Curie. He is a fellow of AAAI, ACM, and AAAS and winner of the IJCAI Computers and Thought Award and the ACM Karl Karlstrom Outstanding Educator Award. His book "Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach" (with Peter Norvig) is the standard text in artificial intelligence. He is also an Adjunct Professor of Neurosurgery at UCSF and a consultant to the UN on global nuclear explosion monitoring.