hi, would the following talk announcement be of interest to the FMT group? thanks, ram On the occasion of World Logic Day, January 14, 2025, the DLMPST Commission on Logic Education invites you to a webinar by Professor Moshe Vardi. Date: January 14, 2025 Time: 0700 CST, 1300 GMT, 1400 CET, 1830 IST, 2100 (Beijing) Zoom Link: URL: https://cmi-ac-in.zoom.us/j/89055168551?pwd=7SeShMDEKSLw1wy6ZaZj4JEa0hiuqE.1 Meeting ID: 890 5516 8551 Passcode: gangesha Talk details: Machine Learning and Logic: Fast and Slow Thinking Moshe Y. Vardi Rice University Computer science seems to be undergoing a paradigm shift. Much of earlier research was conducted in the framework of well-understood formal models. In contrast, some of the hottest trends today shun formal models and rely on massive data sets and machine learning. A cannonical example of this change is the shift in AI from logic programming to deep learning. I will argue that the correct metaphore for this development is not paradigm shift, but paradigm expansion. Just as General Relativity augments Newtonian Mechanics, rather than replace it -- we went to the moon, after all, using Newtonian Mechanics -- data-driven computing augments model-driven computing. In the context of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning and logic correspond to the two modes of human thinking: fast thinking and slow thinking. The challenge today is to integrate the model-driven and data-driven paradigms. I will describe one approach to such an integration -- making logic more quantitative. I will conclude by discussing implications for computer-science education. Speaker Bio: Moshe Y. Vardi is a University Professor, and the George Distinguished Service Professor in Computational Engineering at Rice University. He is the author and co-author of close to 800 papers, as well as two books. He is the recipient of several scientific awards, is a fellow of several societies, and a member of several honorary academies. He holds ten honorary titles. He is a Senior Editor of Communications of the ACM, the premier publication in computing, focusing on societal impact of information technology. -- R Ramanujam
hi, can the following talk announcement please be sent on the FMT group? many thanks, ram --- The DLMPST Commission on Logic Education https://dlmps.org/pages/commissions.php invites you to a webinar on logic education by Professor Maria Manzano. Date: Apr 8, 2025 Time: 1000 EST, 1200 GMT, 1400 CET, 1930 IST, 2200 (Beijing) Zoom link: https://cmi-ac-in.zoom.us/j/89497108451?pwd=rLl7QvAfnfJHTxp5h6ZVoZzyGuvNQQ.1 Meeting ID: 894 9710 8451 Passcode: udayana Talk details: Tools for teaching logic Maria Manzano Salamanca, Spain I will tell you about the European ALFA project on Tools for Teaching Logic that we had last century and about the International TTL Congresses that we held in 2000, 2006, 2011, 2015, and 2023. The first goal of the ALFA project was to share our experience as teachers among Aracne members. We proposed: (1) the preparation of a metabook (with hypertext version), (2) the design of an on-line dictionary of logic terms, (3) the investigation of the existing software for the teaching of logic, (4) the translation of both elementary and interdisciplinary texts and software, (5) to help potential authors to write lecture notes, (6) the dissemination of our project both within our academic community and outside it (high school), thus bolstering a good image of Logic and (7) to support women’s participation in higher education. The network we created was interdisciplinary and included professors and researchers from philosophy, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics. Some of the results of the project can be consulted on the Aracne website (aracne.usal.es.) and others in the Summa Logicae digital library (logicae.usal.es) Speaker Bio: María Gracia Manzano Arjona is a Spanish philosopher specializing in mathematical logic and model theory. Manzano earned her Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Barcelona. Her dissertation, Sistemas generales de la lógica de segundo orden [General systems of second-order logic], was supervised by Jesús Mosterín. She is a professor of logic and the philosophy of science at the University of Salamanca. She is the author of several books on logic and model theory. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_Manzano ---- -- R Ramanujam
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