Talks and Transformation

compactifications and representations of transformation semigroups

this thesis deals essentially (but not from all aspects) with the extension of the notion of semigroup compactification and the construction of a general theory of semitopological nonaffine (affine) transformation semigroup compactifications. it determines those compactification which are universal with respect to some algebric or topological properties. as an application of the theory, it is i...

Invited Talks and Panels

Artificial intelligence focuses on agents carrying out tasks in an environment. Consider the evolution of the agent-task-environment triple. In Good Old Fashioned AI and Robotics (GOFAIR), a single agent typically solved a puzzle in a fully-observable, fully-predictable world. Constraintbased agents were initially proposed in that paradigm. Robot soccer, developed in our lab in 1991, caught on ...

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Over the past few months, NASA has been in the news numerous times both for the exciting discoveries of the pair of Mars Rovers as well as the country’s “Vision for Space Exploration.” This vision focuses on the joint human and robotic exploration of the solar system starting with a return to the moon and then the human exploration of Mars. In addition, the vision includes a continued array of ...

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Much progress has been made in recent years in the area of information retrieval, in particular as embodied in Internet search engine technology. Much progress has also been made in probabilistic, graph-theoretic AI. What are the possibilities for bringing these two lines of research together — for viewing large-scale information retrieval as a core enabling technology for AI systems, and for a...

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