MACKFEST

SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE

SUNDAY JULY 22, 2007

(Before AAAI)

A symposium to celebrate Alan Mackworth's contributions

to the field of computational intelligence and to UBC.

AGENDA

1:00 - 2:45 pm	Invited Talks: Session 1 But Alan, Life is a Constraint Satisfaction Problem! Eugene Freuder, University College Cork What is the Granularity Problem? Randy Goebel, University of Alberta The Glory of Network Consistency Bill Havens, Simon Fraser University
2:45 - 3:15 pm	Coffee Break
3:15 - 5:00 pm	Invited Talks: Session 2 What Diagnosis Has to Do with Saturn's Moons Johan de Kleer, PARC On Robots Seeing Jim Little, University of British Columbia From Smart Matter to Cyber Physical Systems: Evolution of Embedded Systems Ying Zhang, PARC
5:00 - 6:00 pm	UBC Lab Tours
6:00 - 7:00 pm	Cocktails, Cecil Green Park House
7:00 pm onwards	Banquet with Open Mic Talk by Richard Rosenberg, University of British Columbia

Note: There will be an open mic at the evening session at Cecil Green
Park House. If you are unable to attend, please send your thoughts,
photographs, videos, etc.! Email: mackfest@cs.ubc.ca

LOCATIONS

Afternoon:
Hugh Dempster Pavilion - Room 110
6245 Agronomy Road
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Evening:
Cecil Green Park House
6251 Cecil Green Park Road
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REGISTRATION FEE

CAD $75.00 per person
(includes afternoon and evening sessions & banquet)

Note: Spouses are most welcome but need to register
to attend the banquet.

REGISTRATION DEADLINE (EXTENDED!): MONDAY, JULY 16, 2007

Register Now!

We thank ICICS for supporting MackFest.