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Spring 2002: COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT CS 298-11
Thursday 4:00 - 5:30 PM;  Room: 320 Soda Hall; Credit: 1-2 Units, S/U
Speaker
Title
Affiliation
Location, Date, Time
M.Farina  From Pareto­optimality to fuzzy­optimality in 
many­criteria optimization Problems 

STMicroelectronics Srl
May 23, 2002
320 Soda Hall
4:00-5:00 pm
Laszlo T. Koczy HIERARCHICAL FUZZY SYSTEMS AND RULE INTERPOLATION Budapest University of Technology and Economics 
and
Szechenyi Istvan University (Gyor)
Hungary
May 20, 2002
320 Soda Hall
4:00-5:00 pm
Ashok Deshpande Fuzzy logic application to Nitrate Risk Assessment  Distinguished Visiting Professor
Indian Institute of Environment Management (IIEM) New Mumbai, India
Former Deputy Director National Environmental Engineering Research Institute (NEERI), India      
May 16, 2002
320 Soda Hall
4:00-5:00 pm
Jeremy Rosenblatt
(David  Warthen) 
BISC Distinguished Lecture Series 
Ask Jeeves- Search Is More Than Just Search  Chief Technology Officer
Ask Jeeves, Inc.
May 9, 2002
380 Soda Hall
4:00-5:30 pm
Danuta Rutkowska Neuro-fuzzy architectures with hybrid learning as intelligent computational systems Department of Computer Engineering
Technical University of Czestochowa
Czestochowa, Poland
May 9, 2002
380 Soda Hall
3:00-4:00 pm

Chris Ding (Joint work with Xiaofeng He,
Hongyuan Zha, Parry Husbands, Horst Simon)
Web Comminity Discovery via Unsupervised Learning  Lawrence Berkeley National Lab April 25, 2002
310 Soda Hall
4:00-5:30 pm
Prof. Dr. Mihai Nadin Anticipation: The End is Where We Start From BISC Program; EECS-CS-UC Berkeley
Chair of Computational Design, University of Wuppertal, Germany
April 18, 2002
320 Soda Hall
4:00-5:30 pm
Christine Wahmkow Storage management by evaluation of access frequency  BISC Program; EECS-CS-UC Berkeley
Fachhochschule Stralsund
University of Applied Sciences
Department of mechanical engineering
April 4, 2002
320 Soda Hall
4:00-5:30 pm
BISC Strategic Meeting 
(by invitation only)
Assessment and New Directions for Research, 
FUZZY PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS, FUZZY RELATIONAL EQUATIONS
BISC Program March 15-18, 2002
Soda Hall
Asa Ben-Hur  A Method For Detecting Structure In Clustered Data BIOwulf Technologies March 14, 2002
320 Soda Hall 
4:00-5:30 pm
Mori Anvari Ontologies and the Semantic Web EECS-CS Division, UC Berkeley March 7, 2002
320 Soda Hall 
4:00-5:30 pm
Andreas  Nuernberger Visualizing Document Collections for Analysis and Search BISC Program,  UCBerkeley Feb. 28, 2002
320 Soda Hall 
4:00-5:30pm
Peter Norvig
BISC Distinguished Lecture Series 
Building Better Search Engine Director of Machine Learning
Google Inc.
320 Soda Hall
Jan 31, 2002
4:00-5:30pm
Lotfi A. Zadeh A Prototype-Centered Approach to Adding Deduction  Capability to Search Engines -- The Concept of Protoform EECS-CS Division 
University of California-Berkeley
320 Soda Hall
Feb 7, 2002
4:00-5:30pm
Masoud Nikravesh Intelligent Search Engine Based on Conceptual Semantic Indexing EECS-CS Division 
University of California-Berkeley
320 Soda Hall
Feb 14, 2002
4:00-5:30pm
FLINT2002 Fuzzy Logic and the Internet (FLINT 2002)
NAFIPS 2002
New Orleans, LA
June 27-29, 2002
FLINT2001 Fuzzy Logic and the Internet (FLINT2001) BISC Program 
EECS Department, CS Division
UC Berkeley
August 14-August 18, 2001

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Spring 2002
COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
CS 298-11

BISC Seminar on Soft Computing
Spring 2002
Course Control  No:   27046
1-2 units
1 hour 1/2 lecture

DESCRIPTION: Soft computing (SC) is an associate of computing methodologies centered on fuzzy logic (FL), neurocomputing (NC), evolutionary computing (EC), machine learning (ML) and probabilistic variety of conceptual and computational tools for conception, design, construction and utilization of information/intelligent systems. The basic premise underlying soft computing is that its constituent methodologies are for the most part complementary and synergistic rather than competitive. The guiding principle of soft computing is: Exploit the tolerance for imprecision, uncertainty and partial truth to achieve tractability, robustness, low solution cost and better rapport with reality. Representative of the topics discussed in the Seminar are: Qualitative and approximate reasoning; computing with word; manipulation of perceptions, intelligent control; intelligent information systems; expert systems; chaotic systems; image analysis and image understanding; speech and natural language processing; planning; learning; search; data mining; and decision analysis.

PREREQUISITES: The course is self-contained. No prior knowledge of soft computing methodology is required.

INSTRUCTIRS: Lotfi A. Zadeh and M. Nikravesh, with participation of guest lecturers. Dr. M. Nikravesh will serve as BISC administrator.

TIME AND PLACE: Thursday 4:00-5:30 PM, 320 Soda Hall

Lotfi A. Zadeh: zadeh@cs.berkeley.edu,
M. Nikravesh: nikravesh@cs.berkeley.edu

Tel: (510) 642-4959 Fax: (510) 642-1712 Room: 729 Soda Hall
Tel: (510) 643-4522     Room: 199 MF Cory
 



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