Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!XEROX.COM!Shrager.pa From: Shrager.pa@XEROX.COM Newsgroups: comp.ai.digest Subject: Symposium on Computational Approaches to Scientific Discovery Message-ID: <19880926040513.6.NICK@INTERLAKEN.LCS.MIT.EDU> Date: 26 Sep 88 04:05:00 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 72 Approved: ailist@ai.ai.mit.edu ---- Forwarded Message Follows ---- Return-path: <@AI.AI.MIT.EDU,@KL.SRI.COM:Shrager.pa@XEROX.COM> Received: from AI.AI.MIT.EDU by ZERMATT.LCS.MIT.EDU via CHAOS with SMTP id 193283; 13 Sep 88 04:14:56 EDT Received: from KL.SRI.COM (TCP 1200200002) by AI.AI.MIT.EDU 13 Sep 88 04:19:22 EDT Received: from Xerox.COM by KL.SRI.COM with TCP; Tue, 13 Sep 88 01:13:21 PDT Received: from Semillon.ms by ArpaGateway.ms ; 13 SEP 88 01:13:14 PDT Date: Tue, 13 Sep 88 01:11 PDT From: Shrager.pa@Xerox.COM Subject: Symposium on Computational Approaches to Scientific Discovery To: ailist@sri.com Message-ID: <19880913081139.9.SHRAGER@ZONKER.parc.xerox.com> Line-fold: no Computational Approaches to Scientific Discovery Stanford University; January 7-8, 1989 Scientific discovery stands as a major open issue in Cognitive Science. What are the conditions for discovery and what knowledge is brought to bear? What roles are played by experimentation, observation, instrumentation, and culture in the discovery process? How are important discoveries noticed and how are they transmitted? Recently, significant progress has been made in the computational understanding of scientific discovery. In order to bring together the principal researchers in this field, and so move closer to a unified theory of scientific reasoning and discovery, a symposium on this topic will be held at Stanford University on January 7 (Saturday) and January 8 (Sunday), 1989. The symposium will cross several methodological boundaries, including Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and Philosophy of Science, and will cover a variety of scientific domains. Presentations will be through invitation, but to ensure participation by researchers without `contacts' and from a broad range of related fields, a small number of additional attendees will be invited. The ideal participant will have developed and tested (by implementation, experiment, etc.) a computational theory of scientific reasoning, preferably emphasizing some aspect of discovery. These might include: * Mechanisms of theory formation * Prediction and causal reasoning * Experimentation and instrument construction * The organization of scientific information * Sociological and cultural issues * Unified models of discovery Applicants should send a short research summary (**maximum** of two pages) describing their research efforts and interests in scientific reasoning or discovery to the program co-chair (see notes below) by: >> OCTOBER 15, 1988 << Program co-Chairs: Jeff Shrager Xerox PARC 3333 Coyote Hill Rd. Palo Alto, CA 94304 Shrager@Xerox.com Phone: 415/494-4338 Pat Langley University of California at Irvine langley@CIP.UCI.EDU [Please direct queries and applications to Jeff Shrager. Applications *must* be submitted in HARDCOPY via U.S.Mail (or in person). Other queries may be made by netmail, telephone, in writing, or in person.]