Hello Futurists,

We are looking forward to seeing you on Wednesday.

On Weds. Dec. 6, 7-9 PM, the DC Future Salon will discuss "The Future
of Automated Program Learning"

with (soon-to-be-)Dr. Moshe Looks.


LOCATION: The usual ...
Bethesda-Chevy Chase Regional Services Center
4805 Edgemoor Lane
Bethesda, Maryland 20814
Phone: 240-777-8200
Directions: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/mcgtmpl....BCC/Welcome.asp


WHEN:
Wednesday, December 6, 2006
7:00 PM - 9 PM

DESCRIPTION:

Our speaker, Moshe Looks, has just finished up his PhD thesis at
Washington University in St. Louis, on the topic of "Competent Program
Evolution". In his thesis, Moshe presents a new approach to the
automated learning of computer programs, based on an algorithm called
MOSES (Meta-Optimizing Semantic Search). Some details on his work are
described at www.metacog.org .

While this work is somewhat technical, it is based on a number of
highly innovative conceptual ideas. My own highly biased opinion
(I'm on Moshe's thesis committee and participated in some of the MOSES
research) is that this work constitutes the next major step in
automated program learning -- the first one being the development of
"evolutionary programming" itself, by John Koza and others.

MOSES was developed with a view toward, among other applications,
integration into the Novamente Cognition Engine (www.novamente.net),
an integrated architecture for artificial general intelligence
(www.agiri.org).

Discussion can be expected to range beyond the particularities of
evolutionary learning, into such areas as the role of evolutionary
learning in artificial general intelligence, the possible role for
evolutionary learning in the brain (cf Gerald Edelman and William
Calvin's ideas), etc.


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