Misc. July 2010 News

July 2010- Keith McGreggor and Maithilee Kunda organize the AAAI-2010 workshop on Visual Representation and Reasoning in Atlanta. Keith also gives a talk on “A Fractal Analogy Approach to Raven’s Test of Intelligence” to the workshop.

Ashok Goel gives the keynote talk on “Meta-Reasoning for Self-Adaptation in Intelligent Agents” to the AAAI-2010 workshop on Meta-Cogniton.

Ashok Goel gives an invited talk on “Reflection in Action” to the AAAI-2010 workshop on Goal-Directed Autonomy.

Joshua Jones gives a talk on “Effects of Faulty Knowledge Engineering on Structured Classification Learning” to the AAAI-2010 workshop on Abstraction, Reformulation and Approximation.

Julia Svoboda joins DILab as a post-doctoral fellow. She will work on the EMT project on learning about complex systems in middle school science.

Papers accepted to CogSci 2010

The following two papers have been accepted for publication in Proc. 2010 Cognitive Science Conference:

Ashok K. Goel, Swaroop S. Vattam, Spencer Rugaber, David Joyner, Cindy E. Hmelo-Silver, Rebecca Jordan, Sameer Honwad, Steven Gray, Suparna Sinha. Functional and Causal Abstractions of Complex Systems. To appear in Proc. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cogntive Science Society, Portland, August 2010.

Maithilee Kunda, Keith McGreggor & Ashok Goel. Taking a Look (Literally!) at the Raven’s Intelligence Test: Two Visual Solution Strategies. To appear in Proc. 32nd Annual Meeting of the Cogntive Science Society, Portland, August 2010.

Kunda and McGreggor participate in AI symposium

November 5-6, 2009- Mathilee Kunda and Keith McGreggor participate in the the AAAI Fall Symposium on Multi-representational Architectures for Human-level Intelligence in Washington, DC, and present the “Addressing the Raven’s Progressive Matrices Test of ‘General’ Intelligence.”

Paper accepted to 2010 IMFAR Conference

February 22, 2010- The following has been accepted for presentation to the 2010 IMFAR conference:

Maithilee Kunda, Keith McGreggor & Ashok Goel. Can the Raven’s Progressive Matrices Intelligence Test be Solved by Thinking in Pictures? To be presented to the Tenth Annual International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR-2010), Philadelphia, May 2010.