Alvey Lectures (6 Parts)

Synopsis

A series of lectures on intelligent knowledge-based systems (IKBS), each by a leading UK expert on the topic.

Language

English

Medium

Video; Videocassette. VHS. col. 60, 5 x 120 min.

Year of production

1984

Availability

OUT OF DISTRIBUTION

Subjects

Information technology

Keywords

artificial intelligence; computers; expert systems; medical diagnosis; production management

Credits

Cast

Tim O’Shea

Sections

Title

IKBS - setting the scene

Synopsis

1: In his introductory lecture Dr Howe, Head of the Department of Artifical Intelligence at Edinburgh University and Chairman of the Alvey IKBS Advisory Group, gives an overview of the present status of IKBS techniques, concentrating on the UK.

Title

Expert system for medical diagnosis, An /Introduction to production systems, An

Synopsis

2: Dr Alan Bundy introduces expert systems by describing the structure and operation of MYCIN, a well-known program for medical diagnosis and therapy. Dr Richard Young uses simple examples to show the power, and the deficiencies of production rule systems

Title

Logic programming/Expert systems - some user experience

Synopsis

3: Professor Kowalski distinguishes between the full potential of logic programming and the present state of development of PROLOG. He uses as an example an expert system shell written in PROLOG called APES. Assisted by Mark Segot of Imperial College he d

Title

Dealing with uncertainty/Building complex Expert Systems

Synopsis

4: Dr John Fox, a leading authority on medical expert systems, discusses the various attempts to solve the key problems of dealing with noisy data or with rules in expert systems that are not always reliably true. Dr Max Bramer reviews the weaknesses of s

Title

Image understanding/Machine learning - the state of the art

Synopsis

5: Professor John Frisby uses a single example of an industrial computer vision problem as the context within which to describe both low-level and high-level visual processes. The unsolved problems in the area are carefully defined. Dr O'Shea concentrates

Title

Natural language processing/Artificial intelligence programming languages

Synopsis

6: Dr Karen Sparck-Jones describes a number of approaches to natural language processing. She deals with this area at a variety of levels ranging from vocabulary and grammatical rules to meaning and pragmatics. Professor Aaron Sloman reviews the most popu

Production Company

Name

BBC Open University Productions

Distributor

Name

Open University Customer Services

Web

http://www.open.ac.uk External site opens in new window

Phone

01908 858 786

Fax

01908 858 787

Address

PO Box 188
Milton Keynes
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