, by a one-day AI funding seminar. The titles of the seven symposia were as follows: An informal reception was held on Thursday, November 5. A general plenary session, in which the highlights of each symposium were presented, was held on Friday, November 6. The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind requires that we better understand at a computational leve...

to the Cell multiprocessor J. A. Kahle M. N. Day H. P. Hofstee C. R. Johns T. R. Maeurer D. Shippy This paper provides an introductory overview of the Cell multiprocessor. Cell represents a revolutionary extension of conventional microprocessor architecture and organization. The paper discusses the history of the project, the program objectives and challenges, the design concept, the architectu...

What reasoning patterns do agents use to choose their actions in games? This paper studies this question in the context of Multi-Agent Influence Diagrams (MAIDs). It defines several kinds of reasoning patterns, and associates each with a pattern of paths in a MAID. We asks the question, what reasoning patterns have to hold in order for an agent to care about its decision? The answer depends on ...

This paper discusses archive data and its specific attributes, as well as the requirements for storing, cataloging, managing, and retrieving archive data. We discuss how MAID (Massive Array of Idle Disks), and particularly our enhanced implementation of MAID, are particularly well suited for the storage of long-term archive data. Finally, we present an overview of the Revolution 220A file archi...

Somehow, living organisms deal with a complex world. This is the basis for the AI hope of smart systems worthy of that designation. But we have been unsuccessful at this so far. Here I will argue that a closer — but straightforward — look at human reasoning suggests an implementable strategy for °exible commonsense reasoning. The notion of an anomaly — something that deviates from expectations ...

Integrated design synthesizes combinations of options to take advantage of interactions that maximize multidisciplinary value. As resources become further constrained, options more numerous and goals increasingly complex, it is more critical and more challenging for design teams to find these integrated solutions. Theory proposes the integration of transformation, flow, and value (TFV) views as...

An interesting approach towards human-level intelligence has been proposed at BICA 2011 [1]. Namely, it is proposed that an intelligent artificial BICA agent would be able to win a political election against human candidates. The current work proposes another approach. Our approach is based on the fact that the most serious cognitive processes are processes of scientific cognition. The backgrou...

This paper describes an investigation of potential advantages and pitfalls of applying an asynchronous design methodology to an advanced microprocessor architecture. A prototype complex instruction set length decoding and steering unit was implemented using self-timed circuits. [The Revolving Asynchronous Pentium® Processor Instruction Decoder (RAPPID) design implemented the complete Pentium II...

periodontitis (pd) is known to be one of most prevalent worldwide chronic inflammatory diseases. there are several treatments including antibiotics for pd; however, since drug resistance is an increasing problem, new drugs particularly derived from plants with fewer side effects are required. the effects of trans-anethole on il-1 β and tnf-α level in a rat model of pd were investigated and comp...

conclusions given the importance of physical activity, and given that most women are at the pre-contemplation stage of the trans theoretical model, it seems necessary to devise educational interventional plans for the promotion of physical activities among women referred to health centers. patients and methods this was a cross-sectional study with 310 randomly selected females referred to healt...