More brain food for cognitive scientists....

[tshuma]

***SYMBOLIC SYSTEMS FORUM***

How Science Thinks: The Science and Engineering of Science and Engineering
Prof. Jeff Shrager
Associate Professor in Symbolic Systems, CommerceNet

Thursday, Nov. 29th, 2007
4:15-5:30 pm
Building 380, Room 380C (Math Corner)
MAP: http://campus-map.stanford.edu/index.cfm?ID=01-380
(Parking in nearby lots at no charge after 4 pm)

ABSTRACT:

For over three decades cognitive scientists have been studying how science works and how scientists think. What have we learned about scientific cognition and about science as a human activity? How has this informed cognitive science more generally? How has it helped us build semi-automated discovery systems and better tools to support scientific practice and facilitate discovery? How does this all play with the Web 24.0 vision? (**) In this talk I'll use some of my own, and a lot of other people's research to lead a guided tour to some partial answers to these interesting questions.

Jeff Shrager is consulting associate professor of Symbolic Systems. His work spans human and machine learning and development, and both computational and "wet" marine biology and drug discovery. He current leads the Health Care Initiative at CommerceNet which is using Web 24.0 technology (**) to build Virtual Pharmaceutical Companies to address rare and orphan diseases.

(** If Web 1.0 is the current web, Web 2.0 the social web, Web 3.0 the semantic web, and Web 4.0 the programmable web, then Web 24.0 (1*2*3*4) is be the programmable social semantic web. I just made this term up for this talk, but it's actually rather appropriate, as you'll see!)

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More upcoming events:

Dec. 6 SSP Forum: David C. Wilkins, Symbolic Systems Program, "Learning to Recognize Facial Emotions: Art Versus Psychology", 4:15-5:30 pm, 380-380C

Comments

[composerjk.livejournal.com]

I know Jeff. I should remember to pay more attention to the lists for these and other talks. On this side of things, I used to study cognitive and neural science (ages ago). Thanks for posting these periodically. :)

[hot-turkey.livejournal.com]

Cool! Jeff is one of my longest-standing friends in the whole world. My life has been intertwined with his to an amazing degree for over 20 years. He was the first person who interviewed me at PARC in 1985, we've worked together at 3 different jobs, and we even ended up buying the house he was living in in Pittsburgh, PA.