CMA

Lovelace Lecture 2010

"What will a companionable computational agent be like?"

Presented by Professor Yorick Wilks, Oxford Internet Institute at Balliol College.

Date: Wednesday 7 July 2010
Time: 18:30pm Registration for 19:00pm lecture
Venue: The Cavendish Conference Centre, London

The lecture is free and open to all.

The lecture will look at the state of the art in modelling realistic conversation with computers over the last 40 years. Ask what we want in a long-term conversational agent and will distinguish several functions for such agents. The lecture will discuss the prospects for machine learning in the conversational modelling field and progress to date on incorporating notions of emotion into AI systems.

Join us:

A canapé reception* will follow the lecture offering the opportunity to meet with the speaker and network with friends, colleagues and peers. *A small charge applies

For further information please visit: www.bcs.org/lovelace/lecture