Talk by Koen V. Hindriks, TU Delft, Wednesday 9 September 2015 9:30-10:30 at DTU Compute.
Title: Language Design for Cognitive Agents and Artificial Intelligence
Abstract: Currently, no language exists that provides programmers with integral support for programming autonomous decision systems. In AI, sophisticated algorithms for automated planning, reasoning with knowledge, decision making, and/or learning have been developed. But using these algorithms and integrating them into an intelligent system is a challenging engineering task. I will explore the idea of using a novel abstraction mechanism of cognitive modules that encapsulate AI algorithms as the main building block of a new programming language for AI. We argue that this approach where complex AI algorithms of today become the basic programming abstractions of tomorrow can address the AI engineering challenge. Moreover, such abstraction mechanisms also can provide a basis for verifying the reliability of autonomous decision systems.
Host: Associate Professor Jørgen Villadsen (AlgoLoG)
Bio: Koen Hindriks (1971) is Associate Professor within the Interactive Intelligence section in Department of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science at Delft University of Technology. He has published more than 100 papers on agent technology and has designed and developed the agent programming languages 3APL and GOAL.