Date : 2024-06-17 => 2023-09-21
Lieu : LIASD, IUT de Montreuil, Université Paris8
Adresse : 140, rue de la nouvelle France 93100 Montreuil

Dear,

You are invited to attend a presentation by Professor Tommie Meyer (University of Cape Town, South Africa) as part of the monthly seminar organized by the EID team at LIASD, Université Paris 8. The seminar will be held at IUT Montreuil (Salle Visio)*, at 2:00 pm (Paris time).

The title of the talk is: Knowledge Representation and Reasoning: In the Age of Machine Learning.
Abstract: In this talk I’ll remind the audience that Machine Learning is one of a number of sub-disciplines of Artificial Intelligence (AI), and that it is important for the field as a whole to maintain and grow expertise in all aspects of AI. I will then proceed to practice what I preach by introducing Knowledge Representation and Reasoning as one of the pillars of AI. I’ll conclude with some suggestions on how Knowledge Representation and Reasoning can benefit from research in Machine Learning, and vice versa.

Bio: Tommie Meyer is the CAIR-UCT Research Chair in Artificial Intelligence, the director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Unit (airu.org.za) at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, and the co-director of the South African national Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (cair.org.za). Prior to his appointment at the University of Cape Town in 2015 he held positions at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research in Pretoria, South Africa, National ICT Australia (now Data61), the University of New South Wales in Australia, the University of Pretoria, and the University of South Africa. He is recognised internationally as an expert in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning. He is a SECAI Fellow (secai.org), a member of Council of the University of Johannesburg, a member of SAICSIT (saicsit.org), AAAI (aaai.org), the ACM (acm.org), and ASSAf (assaf.org.za/). He is one of only three South African Computer Scientists to have obtained an A-rating from the South African National Research Foundation.

You can join the conference remotely by following this (link)
Best regards

Nedra Mellouli and Sihem Belabbes.
* IUT de Montreuil, 140 rue de la nouvelle France, 93100 Montreuil (Google Map)