Just to remind you of the event coming up this Saturday involving Gilles Fauconnier, Ashwin Ram, and Mark Turner (plus yours truly). I hope there will be a significant presence from CSLI, since this seems right up your alley. -- Doug Hofstadter ========================================================= ARE COMPUTERS APPROACHING HUMAN-LEVEL CREATIVITY? ------------------------------------------------- A Series of Five Public Symposia Prompted by Some Striking Recent Developments in Artificial Intelligence Stanford University, Fall 1997 Organized and moderated by Douglas Hofstadter Sponsored by the Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities (CCARH) with support from the Office of the Associate Dean for Humanities Each symposium will bring together world experts in a particular field in which human creativity shines; all will deliver short talks expressing their view about the degree to which computers have become genuinely creative in that field, after which there will be a panel discussion with audience participation. The organizer will moderate the panels, as well as participating as a panelist himself. Symposium II: Language and Literature Saturday, October 18, Law School, Room 290, 10AM-3PM (coffee at 9:30) * Gilles Fauconnier, Cognitive Science, UC San Diego Author of "Mental Spaces" and other books on language's cognitive underpinnings * Ashwin Ram, Computer Science, Georgia Tech Developer of science-fiction-reading program ISAAC; author on case-based reasoning * Mark Turner, English, University of Maryland Author of "The Literary Mind" and other books on the mutual relevance of literature and cognitive science