Conference heron::euro_swas_ai

135.0. "You may want to put this in your notes file" by HERON::ROACH (TANSTAAFL !) Mon Sep 25 1989 11:16

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                                        Date:     21-Sep-1989 04:05pm CET
                                        From:     ORCIUCH
                                                  ORCIUCH@YIPPEE@HERON@MRGATE@VALMTS@VBO
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TO:  ROACH@A1NSTC


Subject: You may want to put this in your notes file

From:	YIPPEE::GOULNIK      "no planning is bad planning" 21-SEP-1989 15:51:33.74
To:	@EAITC
CC:	GOULNIK
Subj:	EuroPACE Programme for Advanced Continuing Education


	Please find attached a short description of the EuroPACE� offerings
	for the academic year 1989-1990 (FY90) starting on October 2nd. It
	covers such IT fields as AI or S/W engineering, as well as Advanced
	Manufacturing. I think we (as a group) should try and get hold of most
	of the courses described below.
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�European Programme of Advanced Continuing Education


EuroPACE
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	Advanced continuing education programmes recorded at various
	universities around Europe, broadcast by satellite and sponsored
	by British Telecom, Bull, HP, IBM, Philips, DIGITAL Europe and others.

|	Arrangements can be made with the training centre in Valbonne to
|	either watch the programs live or get the recorded tapes, as well
|	as the accompanying course material.
	

	
			1989-1990  OFFERINGS�
			--------------------
		
		Starting in October 89, closing in June 1990

			Artificial Intelligence
			Software Engineering
			Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
			Live Events

			Technology Management�
			Telecommunications�
			Microelectronics�

		� see Course Catalog for details
		� not covered here


ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

	Neural Nets, Cognition and AI  (5 hours)
		G.Nicholis,I.Prigogine: U.Brussels, I.Amari: U.Tokio,
		G.Toulouse: ENS Paris, T.Kohonen: U.Finland.

	Relating task features to expert systems solutions  (4 hours)
		J.McDermott: CMU, L.Steels: U.Brussels, 
		B.Wielinga, J.Breuker: U.Amsterdam

	Natural language systems  (8 hours)
		H.Uszkoreit, W.Wahlster: U.Saarbr�cken.

	Neural Networks  (6+12 hours)
		F.Fogelman &al.: U.Paris

	Logic Programming with PROLOG and expert systems  (20 hours)
		R.Kowalski &al.: Imperial College.
	
	Knowledge Engineering  (20 hours)
		L.Steels: U.Brussels, 


SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

	Techniques for real time software design & tutorial examples  (12 hours)
		Peter van Santen, Roger Prowse: Brunel Univ.

	Practical Management of Software Projects  (8 hours)
		Tony Burbridge: T.R. Burbridge Associates.

	Summer School on Software Engineering in ESPRIT	 (8 hours)
		B.Dion  (CERICS), C.Ghezzi  (Politecnico di Milano),
		G.Khan  (INRIA), D.Potier  (EuroPACE)

	Autumn School 1989, Thomson Campus  (26 hours)
		R.Azencott: ENS PAris, D.Hirschberg: EuroPACE.

	Introduction to formal specification techniques  (6 hours)
		J.E.Nichols: Oxford Univ.

	The Z notation and method  (10 hours)
		J.E.Nichols: Oxford Univ.

	Software quality, metrics and testing  (6 hours)
		Peter van Santen &al.: Brunel Univ.



ADVANCED MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES

	Management Overview  (5x2 hours)

		John Addy: IBM, J.Rogerson: Cranfield Inst.of Techn.,
		H.J.Bullinger: Fraunhofer Inst.,W.Germany, P.Bunce: CAMI.

		o  Strategy for a changing manufacturing environment
		o  Total quality methods
		o  People and skills in manufacturing
		o  Activity based costing
		o  Implementing Japanese manufacturing outside Japan

	Elements of Advanced manufacturing technologies  (4x8 hours)

		A.Weatherall: IBM, J Browne: Galway Univ.,
		R.Steinhilper, C.M.Claussen: Fraunhofer Inst.,W.Germany,
		M.Brady: Oxford Univ., A.Gieles: Philips.

		o  CIM architectures
		o  Material resource planning  (JIT, OPT, etc.)
		o  Flexible manufacturing systems
		o  Vision systems in manufacturing
		


LIVE EVENTS

	ESPRIT Technical week in BRUSSELS.
	  (November 30)