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
