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Conference heron::euro_swas_ai

Title:Europe-Swas-Artificial-Intelligence
Moderator:HERON::BUCHANAN
Created:Fri Jun 03 1988
Last Modified:Thu Aug 04 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:442
Total number of notes:1429

282.0. "Next AI Forum --- Valbonne or Avignon?" by ULYSSE::ROACH (TANSTAAFL !) Wed Feb 20 1991 09:53

    Ladies and Gentlemen of the European AI Competency Circle,
    
    It is time for us to start planning for the next AI Forum. We noticed that 
    the Forum would normally fall in near proximity to the Avignon'91 show 
    during the last week of May. It is also our hope to have the various 
    countries from around Europe represented in our Exhibition booth at the 
    show. This leaves us with a couple of questions (problems?).
    
    o if the show and the Forum were a month or so apart, would your country 
      be able to be represented at both?
    
    o if not, which would you prefer to attend - Avignon or a forum in 
      Valbonne?
    
    o how would you feel about combining the two; i.e., attend the technical 
      sessions and exhibition and share booth duty with other competency 
      circle members?
    
    We would like to raise Digital's participation at Avignon to a full 
    European event. However, at the same time, we want to meet the needs and 
    expectation of you, the AI Competency Circle community. Your "quick" 
    feedback would be appreciated. We would like to make a final decision
    early next week so that we can set the wheels in motion.
    
    Please let your desires be known here, or directly to 
    
    George (yippee::) Mcgregor @VBO
    or
    Pat (yippee::) Roach @VBO
    
    Cheers!
    
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282.1 my 2 centsULTX03::2548moduladaplisprologopsimulalgolTue Feb 26 1991 14:515
IMHO we should keep the 2 events (Avignon and AI-Forum) unrelated.
The only thing I would suggest is planning the AI-Forum just before
or after Avignon. This saves those of us who want to attend both
events, a ticket.
						Hans de Hartog
282.2Contents of next forumULYSSE::MCGREGORMon Mar 04 1991 15:2425
    Now that Gulf War hostilities have ended, and travel restrictions may
    be somewhat eased, I would like to rapidly plan the next competency
    circle meeting. 
    
    Given a summer timeframe (June?), what would you like to see as topics?
    
    The feedback from the last meeting suggests that we should try to cover
    a small number of topics in some depth, rather than cover many topics. 
    
    Here is my suggested agenda for 4 days;
    
    Trainings in the following:
    
    	- a C-based Shell (e.g. KBMS)
    	- a constraint-based reasoning language (e.g Prolog III)
    	- a KB system methodology (e.g KADS)
    
    Discussions of
    
    	- marketing issues/competitive update
    	- update of the AI&DPM task-force
    
What do you urgently need to know about?!
    
    George
282.3Sur le pont d'Avignon, on Y danse tout en rondKETJE::VANDEVYVERLuc Van de Vyver 856-7577Mon Mar 11 1991 14:2439
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I vote for some detail in the (some) presentations. 

Maybe not an in depth training, but MORE than the standard presentation.

Besides the marketing/eis discussions, I think we need to get something 
practical, in terms of immediate usefullness,  out of the seminars.

This helps justifying the travel.

Therefor I vote for KBMS/PROLOG/G2/KADS/LASER/... indepths & handsons.

What about Vax Decision Expert version 2.0 and it's Unix version ...
A long expected up-date/grade would be welcome.


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About the Avignon event, I agree with Hans in .1.
These days we have to justify every travel with business, and for the Avignon-
participation I can not (yet) find any justification (help is welcome)

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Some CC's ago, we've discussed the a travelling CC-meeting. Every country would
host a meeting. This would give some more people the opportunity to participate.
It could be used as publicity for the technology, or it could give us 
(cc-members) the opportunity to have a look at Digitals own applications (Ayr,
Galway, Edinburg, ...).

What's the CC's opinion on this?

btw. we're opening an office in Prague, what about that for the next meeting :-}



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Luc