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V sredo 21. aprila bo ob 13:00h v Veliki predavalnici IJS
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(prvo nadstropje glavne zgradbe), 221. Solomonov seminar.
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Posnetki preteklih seminarjev so na <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://videolectures.net/solomon/">http://videolectures.net/solomon/</a>
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Predaval bo Mark Greaves is podjetja Vulcan (<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.vulcan.com/">http://www.vulcan.com/</a>), <br>
ki je podjetje v lasti soustanovitelja Microsofta Paula Allena, ki
financira <br>
visokotehnoloske projekte z visokim pricakovanim vplivom ("high
impact"). <br>
Mark bo predstavil project Halo, ki sodi po mojem mnenju v tem casu <br>
med najambicnoznejsime projekte s podrocja umetne inteligence.<br>
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Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc.<br>
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Title: An Introduction to Project Halo</div>
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<div>Abstract: In this talk, I will describe Project Halo, a
large-scale research program in artificial intelligence sponsored by
Paul Allen’s Vulcan Inc.. Project Halo has three parts: 1) an expert
system called AURA for knowledge formulating and question
answering in science; 2) an advanced reasoning system called SILK for
default and higher-order inference; and 3) a social semantic web
platform called Semantic MediaWiki+ (SMW+) for effectively building the
large basic knowledge base that is necessary for the
other two parts to work. I will briefly describe the first two of these
parts, but I will spend most of my time describing Project Halo’s work
in on SMW+. SMW+ combines semantic web technology and wiki-based
social mechanisms, and marries the structure and
flexibility of a database to the crowd sourcing power of a wiki. I
will show several examples of SMW+, and conclude by describing Vulcan’s
Ultrapedia prototype, in which we show what Wikipedia might look like
if it was built with a semantic wiki.</div>
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<div>Bio: Dr. Mark Greaves is currently Director of Knowledge Systems
at Vulcan, Inc. Vulcan is the private asset management company for Paul
Allen (co-founder of Microsoft, <a href="http://www.vulcan.com"><font
color="#0000ff"><u>www.vulcan.com</u></font></a>).
At Vulcan, Mark oversees advanced research in large knowledge bases and
advanced web technologies, including Project Halo (<a
href="http://www.projecthalo.com">www.projecthalo.com</a>).
Formally, Mark was at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
(DARPA),
the central research and development organization of the US Department
of Defense. At DARPA, he served as Director of the Joint Logistics
Technology Office, and Program Manager in the Information Exploitation
Office. He formulated and directed advanced research
programs on semantic web technology, formal ontology specification,
logistics and supply chain control technologies, and the application of
software agent technology to problems of distributed control of complex
systems-of-systems. Prior to coming to DARPA,
Mark worked on advanced programs in software agent technology at the
Mathematics and Computing Technology group of Boeing. His main
research interests are in mathematical logic, semantic web, and
software agent technology, about which he has published two
books and several papers. Mark holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University.</div>
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