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   From: nc@alum.mit.edu   
      
   We are seeking expressions of interest in participating in a proposed   
   AAAI 2004 Fall Symposium on a promising new approach to  artificial   
   intelligence research we call "Achieving Human-Level Intelligence   
   through Integrated Systems and Research".  At the end of this message   
   is a brief description of the symposium.  If you would potentially be   
   interested in attending please respond with your name and affiliation   
   to nc@alum.mit.edu before October 15.  This is only an expression of   
   interest and there would be no obligation to participate.  The   
   symposium would take place in Washington, DC in November of 2004.   
      
   Nick Cassimatis   
   Patrick Winston   
      
      
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   Achieving Human-Level Intelligence  through Integrated Systems and   
   Research   
      
   Achieving human-level artificial intelligence will require systems and   
   research to be integrated from not only several subfields of the   
   artificial intelligence research community, but from other fields   
   interested in cognition.  We propose to gather researchers working   
   across the boundaries of their subfields to explore new computational   
   techniques and research methodologies for integrating research results   
   to produce more intelligent systems.   
      
   There has been substantial progress in some of the subfields of   
   Artificial Intelligence during the past three decades, but the field   
   overall is moving toward increasing subfield isolation and increasing   
   attention to near-term applications, retarding progress toward   
   comprehensive theories and deep scientific understanding, and   
   ultimately, retarding progress toward developing the science needed   
   for higher-impact applications.   
      
   Some recent trends in artificial intelligence research, for example   
   cognitive robotics and computer vision research informed by human   
   visual processing, have begun to reverse this trend towards   
   fragmentation.  Because the human mind is both an example of an   
   integrated system that uses multiple representational and   
   computational techniques and because it by definition exhibits   
   human-level intelligence, these researchers have found it useful to   
   look towards fields such as linguistics, psychology and neuroscience   
   for inspiration and constraints on their theories.   
      
   We propose to gather together researchers interested in achieving   
   human-level artificial intelligence through integrated systems and   
   multi-disciplinary research to discuss recent progress and proposed   
   future work towards this goal.   
      
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