[Solomonov Seminar] [E8] 216. Solomonov seminar

[Marko Grobelnik]

V sredo 21. aprila bo ob 13:00h v Veliki predavalnici IJS
(prvo nadstropje glavne zgradbe), 221. Solomonov seminar.
Posnetki preteklih seminarjev so na http://videolectures.net/solomon/

Predaval bo Mark Greaves is podjetja Vulcan (http://www.vulcan.com/),
ki je podjetje v lasti soustanovitelja Microsofta Paula Allena, ki 
financira
visokotehnoloske projekte z visokim pricakovanim vplivom ("high impact").
Mark bo predstavil project Halo, ki sodi po mojem mnenju v tem casu
med najambicnoznejsime projekte s podrocja umetne inteligence.

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Mark Greaves, Vulcan Inc.

Title:  An Introduction to Project Halo
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.
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, _www.vulcan.com_ 
<http://www.vulcan.com>). At Vulcan, Mark oversees advanced research in 
large knowledge bases and advanced web technologies, including Project 
Halo (www.projecthalo.com <http://www.projecthalo.com>).  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.

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