Events 
| CRC Colloquium |
| Montag, 05.05.2008 16:00 - 18:00 | |
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Leonid I. Perlovsky Harvard University, and Air ForceResearch Lab., leonid@seas.harvard.edu. What are the mechanisms of interaction between language and cognition? The talk briefly reviews past mathematical difficulties of modeling the mind and new mathematical techniques of dynamic logic and neural modeling fields, which overcome these difficulties. Mechanisms of concepts, emotions, instincts, imaginations, intuitions are described; they are inseparable from perception and cognition. Engineering appli¬cations illustrate orders of magnitude improvement in model-based pattern recog¬nition, data mining, fusion, financial predictions. Dynamic logic is extended to language and mechanisms of joint operations of language and cognition. It turned out those human abilities could only evolve jointly. The last part of the talk moves to future research directions: roles of beautiful, music, sublime in the mind, cognition, and evolution. I relate dynamic logic to the knowledge instinct, which drives the mind to understand the world, and argue that instinct is even more important than sex or food. The Nobel Prize in Economics, 2003 is related to the Biblical story of the fall. Mathematical models of the mind and cultures bear on contemporary world, and may be used to improve mutual understanding among peoples around the globe and reduce tensions between cultures. Biography Dr. Leonid Perlovsky, Visiting Scholar at Harvard, Principal Research Physicist and Technical Advisor at the Air Force Research Lab. leads Semantic Web project and other research programs. From 1985 to 1999, as Chief Scientist at Nichols Research, a $0.5 B high-tech organization, he led the corporate research in intelligent systems, neural networks, and sensor fusion. He served as professor at Novosibirsk and New York Universities and participated as a principal in startups developing tools for text understanding, biotechnology, and financial predictions. His company predicted the market crash following 9/11 a week before the event, detecting activities of Al Qaeda traders, and later helped SEC looking for these guys. He delivered invited keynote plenary talks and tutorial lectures around the globe, published more then 280 papers, 10 book chapters, a monograph “Neural Networks and Intellect,” Oxford University Press, 2000 (currently in the 3rd printing) and 2 books with Springer in 2007. Dr. Perlovsky organizes conferences on Computational Intelligence, leads IEEE NNTC Task Force on “The Mind and Brain,” serves as Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions for Neural Networks, Editor-at- Large for “Natural Computations,” and Editor-in-Chief for “Physics of Life Reviews.” He received several National and International Awards, including Gabor Award, International Neural Network Society 2007; and McLucas Award, the USAF 2007 (the highest AF scientific award). |
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| contact-person: | Alexander Mehler |
| homepage: | ariadne.coli.uni-bielefeld.de |