IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Central New England Chapter Tuesday, January 11, 2005 Informal Discussion: 6:00 PM Program: 6:30 PM COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE INTEGRATING LANGUAGE AND COGNITION Presented by Leonid I. Perlovsky Air Force Research Laboratory 80 Scott Rd., Hanscom AFB, MA 01731 Leonid.Perlovsky@hanscom.af.mil ABSTRACT During the last decades computational intelligence methods have been developed taking advantage of the known mechanisms of the mind and brain. Much is known; still the knowledge is far from complete. Among the big unknowns are relationships between cognition and language: do we think with words? Or are words just labels used at the end of the thinking process? Dr. Perlovsky will review the known mechanisms of cognition and suggest a computational mechanism that the mind might use for integrating cognition and language. Mathematics is related to results of other sciences studying the mind and brain. Mathematical descriptions of recognition and fusion, conscious and unconscious, imagination, symbols, concepts, and emotions, including aesthetic emotion, will be briefly discussed. SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY Dr. Leonid Perlovsky is Principal Research Physicist and Technical Advisor at the Air Force Research Laboratory/SNHE. Previously, from 1985 to 1999, he served as Chief Scientist at Nichols Research, a $500 million high-tech organization, leading the corporate research in information science, intelligent systems, neural networks, optimization, sensor fusion, and algorithm development. In the past he served as professor at Novosibirsk University and New York University. He participated as a principal in commercial startups developing tools for text understanding, biotechnology, and financial predictions. He published about 50 papers in refereed scientific journals and about 180 papers in conferences, organized academic/engineering conferences, delivered invited keynote plenary talks, and authored a book "Neural Networks and Intellect: model-based concepts," Oxford University Press, 2001. Dr. Perlovsky serves on IEEE Neural Network Technical Committee, Computational Intelligence Society Multimedia Tutorial Committee, IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence 2006 Operating Committee, as General Chair for IEEE KIMAS conference, Chair IEEE Boston Computational Intelligence Chapter, and as Editor-in-Chief for an Elsevier journal, "Physics of Life Reviews." MEETING INFORMATION The IEEE Robotics and Automation Society will meet on Tuesday, January 11, 2005, at Wellesley High School at 6:00 PM for informal discussions and for the formal presentation between 6:30 and 7:30 PM. The group will have a no-host dinner afterwards at Bertucci's, where more conversations can take place with the guest speaker. The meetings are open to the general public, and all are welcome at the dinner afterwards. For more information, contact Rich Maynard at chair@robotics-boston.org. DIRECTIONS From Route 128, take either Route 9 or Route 16 west. From the junction of Routes 9 and 16, follow Route 16 (Washington Street) west past the Wellesley Hills commuter rail station (within walking distance of the school), then turn left onto Rice Street. Wellesley High School is on the left. Parking is available in a lot just beyond the school. For a web map showing the location of Wellesley High School, go to the Yahoo map site at http://maps.yahoo.com/ and enter the following information in the indicated locations: Address: 50 Rice St City, State or ZIP: Wellesley, MA The star marker is misplaced slightly to the south. Imagine it about 1 cm toward the top of the map at Rice St. The GPS coordinates for Rice St in front of the entrance to the high school building are approximately as follows: N 42 18.137' W 71 16.811' The GPS coordinates for the parking lot in front of the entrance to Bertucci's are approximately as follows: N 42 18.492' W 71 16.691' For more information about our Section and Chapter, visit our web site at our registered domain URL http://www.robotics-boston.org/