cs298-11

The Berkeley Initiative in Soft Computing (BISC)

COURSE ANNOUNCEMENT
CS 298-11

BISC Seminar on Soft Computing

For the BISC Seminars (Fall 2002- Present)

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~shawnc/bisctalks_fall_02.html

BISC Seminars 2000-2002

Speaker	Title	Affiliation	Location, Date, Time
M.Farina	From Paretooptimality to fuzzyoptimality in manycriteria optimization Problems	STMicroelectronics Srl	May 21, 2002 380 Soda Hall 3:00-4:00 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 380 Soda Hall 3:00-4:00 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

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

For Comments and Suggestions; Please Send Email to: mailto:%20nikravesh@cs.berkeley.edu