Schedule

Celebration Event at the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) and the 25th anniversay of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies (OSGK)

In the Audience Hall of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research

Thursday, November 17, 1994

Programme

  • 10.00 am
    Vice-Chancellor and Federal Minister Dr. Erhard Busek
    Welcome and opening
  • 10.10 am
    Prof. Dr. Robert Trappl,
    Director, Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna
    Introduction and Overview
  • 10.20 am
    Prof. Dr. Valentin Braitenberg
    ret. Director, Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen:
    Searching for Language Mechanisms in the Brain
  • 11.10 am
    Prof. Dr. Dr. Franz Josef Radermacher
    Director, Research Institute for Applied Knowledge Processing, Ulm:
    Chances as Risks of Innovations, the Example of Automatising Cognitve Processes
  • 12.00 pm
    Lunch break
  • 1.30 pm
    Prof. Dr. Patrick Winston
    Director, Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachussetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA:
    The Thinking Machine: From Wild Dreams to High-Impact Applications and Exciting Science
  • 2.30 pm
    Coffee break
  • 3.00 pm
    Dr. Gerhard Widmer
    Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Vienna:
    Artificial Intelligence and Musicology: The Computer Learns Musical Expression
  • 3.30 pm
    Prof. Dr. Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
    Director, MIRALAB, University of Geneva:
    The Creation of a Virtual World with Virtual Actors (the EU Project HUMANOID)
  • 4.20 pm
    Coffee break
  • 4.50 pm
    Willi Dorner and Sonja Balaz:
    Excerpt from "Col Legno" (Dance Performance)
  • 5.00 pm
    Prof. Dr. Robert Trappl, Vienna:
    Current Research in Artificial Intelligence in Austria and its International Relevance: 152 projects in 30 minutes
  • 5.30 pm
    Reception by the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies in the Entrance Hall to the Audience Hall.

Accompanying programme

  • During all breaks: Demonstrations of AI systems (VIE-PNN and VieNet2) on workstations and PCs, as well as the video series Introduction to Artificial Intelligence in eight parts.
  • Demonstration of the OFAI World-Wide-Web information server and the world-wide access to current AI inofmrations
  • Exhibition of publications of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies and the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence
  • Documentation: 25 Years OSGK, 10 Years OFAI