Semester 2 1998

July 1998

July 6   From Missionaries To Cannibals and Back Again
Dr Pat Riddle, Computer Science Department, Auckland University

July 7   Model Based Refinement of Search Heuristics
Dr Mike Barley,Computer Science Department, Auckland University

 July 13    An introduction to nonmonotonic logic and belief revision
Professor Willem Labuschagne, Computer Science and Information Systems, University of South Africa

 July 24   Four-way quicksort
Dr Richard O'Keefe, Department of Computer Science, University of Otago

July 31  Issues of EIS Software Design
Professor David Swayne, William Evans Visiting Fellow, Professor of Computing and Information Science,
University of Guelph

August 1998

August 6  The NSF/ARPA/NASA Digital Library Initiatives and The Alexandra DigitalLibrary Project
Professor Terence R Smith,Director, Alexandra Digital Library Project, University of California
Santa Barbara, USA

 
August 13  Information Systems Management in a Harsh Environment
Dr  Stewart Fleming, Papua New Guinea

 
August 28  Towards a Computing Curriculum for Environmental Science
Professor David Swayne, William Evans Visiting Fellow, Professor of Computing and Information Science,
University of Guelph

August 28 Bringing information science and neurobiology together:  Computational Models of Grating and Bar Cells
Professor Nikolay Petkov, Head of Computer Science, Department at Groningen University, The Netherlands

August 28  Towards a Computing Curriculum for Environmental Science
 Professor David Swayne, William Evans Visiting Fellow

September 1998

September 3   Intelligent decision making and guidance systems
Elie Sanchez, University of Marseille, France

 
September 4   Truth-Qualification and Fuzzy Relations. Application to Natural Languages and Medical Diagnosis
Elie Sanchez, University of Marseille, France

 
September 8   Weighted Queries and Fuzzy Information Retrieval Systems
Elie Sanchez, University of Marseille, France

September 18   Initial Results from a Clock Synchronisation Test Bed
Dr Paul Ashton, Department of Computer Science, University of Canterbury

October 1998

October 2   Effective Programming
Bob Parslow and Associate Professor Geoff Wyvill, Department of Computer Science, University of Otago

 
October  9   Fuzzy neural networks, evolving fuzzy neural networks and how genetic algorithms can help
Associate Professor Nik Kasabov and Mike Watts

 
October  28   Data mining and knowledge discovery in databases - an overview
Murray MacKinnon, Chartered Statistician, Vancouver

November 1998

November 27   Associative Memories for Technical Systems
Professor Guenther Palm, Department of Neural Information Processing, Computer Science Faculty,
University of Ulm, Germany

December 1998

December  1   Knowledge Acquisition in Biological andArtificial Neural Networks
Associate Professor Robert Miller (on biological neurons) and other members of the CBIS Theme

 
December 2   Neurosymbolic Integration for Adaptive Autonomous Vehicles
Prof Guenther Palm, Department of Neural Information Processing, Computer Science Faculty
University of Ulm, Germany

 
December 16   Spoken language acquisition in humans and machines
Dr John Taylor, Linguistics Department, University of Otago and other CBIS Theme members