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CS 298-11

BISC Seminar on Soft Computing and Search Engines

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Speaker	Title	Affiliation	Location, Date, Time
Masoud Nikravesh	Introduction to the BISC Program. All you want to know about BISC in one hour?	BISC Program, EECS- UC Berkeley And Imaging and Informatics NERSC-LBNL	August 31, 2004 405 Soda Hall 4:00-5:30 pm
Masoud Nikravesh	BISC-DSS and Information Systems in the Enterprises References: Book Chapters BISC-DSS Presentation	BISC Program, EECS- UC Berkeley And Imaging and Informatics NERSC-LBNL	September 7, 2004 405 Soda Hall 4:00-5:30 pm
Lotfi A. Zadeh	Web Intelligence, World Knowledge and Fuzzy Logic	BISC Program, EECS- UC Berkeley	September 14, 2004 405 Soda Hall 4:00-5:30 pm
Shuhua Liu	Text Summarization -- In Search of Effective Ideas and Techniques	Department of Information Systems, Åbo Akademi University, Finland & BISC Program, EECS- UC Berkeley	September 21, 2004 405 Soda Hall 4:00-5:30 pm
Souad Souafi-Bensafi	Decision Tree using Evolutionary Techniques: GA-GP-Based Fuzzy Decison Tree Model	BISC Program, EECS- UC Berkeley	September 28, 2004 405 Soda Hall 4:00-5:30 pm
Marti Hearst	The Failure of Clustering in Search User Interfaces	SIMS- UC Berkeley	October 5, 2004 405 Soda Hall 4:00-5:30 pm
Barbara Diaze	Soft computing methodology applied to time series analysis	BISC Program, EECS- UC Berkeley	October 12, 2004 405 Soda Hall 4:00-5:30 pm
Prof. Tomohiro Takagi	BeMySearch: Concept-Based Search Engine for MultiMedia	Meiji University, Director for Soft Computing Institute and Visiting Fellow BISC Program, EECS- UC Berkeley	October 19, 2004 405 Soda Hall 4:00-5:30 pm
Amit Sheth	Semantics – the implicit, the formal and the powerful (with a case study in Glycomics)	Computer Science, University of Georgia Director: Large Scale Distributed Information System Lab	October 26, 2004 606 Soda Hall 1:30-2:30 pm
Presidential Election	Presidential Election	No Lecture	November 2, 2004 No Lecture
Peter Norvig	Director of Search Quality, Google™	Director of Search Quality, Google™	November 9, 2004 306 Soda Hall HP Auditorim 4:00-5:30 pm
Dragomir R. Radev	Social network analysis of text	University of Michigan	November 10, 2004 380 Soda Hall HP Auditorim 1:00-2:30 pm
Masoud Nikravesh	NeuFCSearch-Search Based on PNL- Neuroscience References: Fuzzy Conceptual Search and Matching; 2001 NeuSearch, 2004; PNL and Neuroscience Approach	BISC Program, EECS- UC Berkeley And Imaging and Informatics NERSC-LBNL	November 2004 405 Soda Hall 4:00-5:30 pm
Interview with Prof. Zadeh	Q&A with Prof. Zadeh	BISC Program, EECS- UC Berkeley	November 19, 2004 360 Soda Hall 2:00-4:00 pm
Stuart Russell	Uncertainty in an unknown world	Director, Center for Intelligent Systems EECS-Computer Science Division University of California	November 23, 2004 405 Soda Hall 4:00-5:30 pm
Fredric C Gey, PhD	Recent Research in Cross-language Document Search Interests: Cross-language Information Retrieval Social Science Databases	Data Archivist and Assistant Director UC Data Archive & Technical Assistance (UC DATA) University of California, Berkeley	November 30, 2004 405 Soda Hall 4:00-5:30 pm
FLINT-CIBI 2003	Computational Intelligence for the Internet and Bioinformatics (FLINT-CIBI 2003)	BISC Program EECS Department, CS Division UC Berkeley	December 14-19, 2003
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

nikravesh@cs.berkeley.edu and bisc-requests@cs.berkeley.edu

For Comments and Suggestions; Please Send Email to: nikravesh@cs.berkeley.edu