Venue: Thompson Board Room
IEE
Savoy Place
London
(Nearest Tube: Embankment and Waterloo)
Time: 6.30 - 7.30
Guest Speaker: Prof. Nigel Shadbolt (University Of Nottingham)
Title
Beyond Brute Force and Ignorance: Prospects for Knowledge Acquisition
This talk will discuss the critical importance of techniques and methods for knowledge acquisition. It will review the history of the topic and attempt to explain why important conceptual advances are still to make an impact on the large scale enterprise of knowledge management and knowledge engineering. It will consider recent developments in knowledge acquisition and compare these to similar trends in other disciplines.
Professor Nigel Shadbolt
Nigel Shadbolt is the Allan Standen Professor of Intelligent Systems at the University of Nottingham and Director of the Department of Psychology's Artificial Intelligence Group. His PhD was from the Univeristy of Edinburgh's Department of Artificial Intelligence. He joined the Department of Psychology at the University of Nottingham in 1983. In 1985 he formally established the Artificial Intelligence Group.
Professor Shadbolt has over 100 publications, of which the majority are in research. A long standing area of research is knowledge acquisition and expert systems. Another major research interest has been in planning and autonomous systems. Professor Shadbolt is a member of the Committee of the British Computer Society Specialist Group on Expert Systems. He advises National and International bodies on research and science policy in the area of intelligent systems. He is also co-founder and a Director of Epistemics Ltd, company specialising in Knowledge Engineering Software and consultancy.
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