{ "paper_id": "J80-3009", "header": { "generated_with": "S2ORC 1.0.0", "date_generated": "2023-01-19T03:07:00.406121Z" }, "title": "Consciousness and Machines", "authors": [ { "first": "Ms", "middle": [ "Carol" ], "last": "Sturgeon", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "James", "middle": [], "last": "Hendler", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Thomas", "middle": [], "last": "Kehler", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Paul", "middle": [], "last": "Michaelis", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Brian", "middle": [], "last": "Phillips", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Kenneth", "middle": [], "last": "Ross", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Harry", "middle": [], "last": "Tennant", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Lance", "middle": [], "last": "Miller", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "George", "middle": [], "last": "Heidorn", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Karen", "middle": [], "last": "Jensen", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Ibm", "middle": [ "T J" ], "last": "Watson", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Research", "middle": [], "last": "Center", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Bozena", "middle": [], "last": "Thompson", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Frederick", "middle": [], "last": "Thompson", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Roger", "middle": [ "C" ], "last": "Schank", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Pat", "middle": [], "last": "Hayes", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" }, { "first": "Yorick", "middle": [], "last": "Wilks", "suffix": "", "affiliation": {}, "email": "" } ], "year": "", "venue": null, "identifiers": {}, "abstract": "Productivity\" is this year's conference theme, and over 200 speakers have been scheduled in more than 60 learning sessions. The focus of these sessions will be directed at the way in which automation technologies can be harnessed and integrated to increase productivity and effectiveness of office workers. Sessions will include such topics as Feasibility Studies, Organizational Impact, Systems Architecture, Electronic Mail, Teleconferencing, and State-of-the-Art in Word Processing.", "pdf_parse": { "paper_id": "J80-3009", "_pdf_hash": "", "abstract": [ { "text": "Productivity\" is this year's conference theme, and over 200 speakers have been scheduled in more than 60 learning sessions. The focus of these sessions will be directed at the way in which automation technologies can be harnessed and integrated to increase productivity and effectiveness of office workers. Sessions will include such topics as Feasibility Studies, Organizational Impact, Systems Architecture, Electronic Mail, Teleconferencing, and State-of-the-Art in Word Processing.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Abstract", "sec_num": null } ], "body_text": [ { "text": "The other ACL session is a panel session, chaired by Norm Sondheimer, on the topic, \"Communicating with Computers in Natural Language -Future Promises,\" with the following four participants: ", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Applications", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The ACL will also hold a special one-day meeting in conjunction with the 1981 LSA Winter Meeting in New York City in December. More information about this will appear in later issues of the AJCL. This will be followed immediately by the Third Conference on Data Bases in the Humanities and Social Sciences (Joint Conference on Easier and More Productive Use of Computing Systems), May 20-22, also in Ann Arbor, sponsored by the Association for Computers in the Humanities and the University of Michigan. This conference has two facets: the quality of the human interface and the characteristics of data base applications. The conference is intended as integrating the insights of the social sciences, humanities, computer science, and human factors engineering. Abstracts for papers and panel discussions should be submitted by February 15, 1981, ", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 828, "end": 846, "text": "February 15, 1981,", "ref_id": null } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Medical Applications Donald Walker, SRI International", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The ACM Special Interest Groups on Programming Languages and Office Automation will jointly sponsor a Symposium on Text Manipulation, June 8-10, 1981, in Portland, Oregon. This symposium will deal with the variety of tools, techniques and programs that have been developed for creating and manipulating text, whether natural language text or programming language text. The emphasis is to be on ideas that can be generalized beyond the context in which they were originally developed. The conference chairman is:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Symposium on Text Manipulation", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Paul Abrahams ACM Symposium on Text Manipulation P.O. Box 161 Deerfield, Massachusetts 01342", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Symposium on Text Manipulation", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence will be held in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, August 24-28, 1981 . Topics of interest include natural language processing, knowledge representation, expert systems and cognitive science. Papers must be submitted to the program committee by March 1, 1981, in one of the following categories: papers (6,000 words max.), communications (1,200 words max.), and programs (500 words max.).", "cite_spans": [ { "start": 97, "end": 141, "text": "British Columbia, Canada, August 24-28, 1981", "ref_id": null } ], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Further details of the conference, registration information, etc., may be obtained from:", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "Liaison Officer University of Essex Wivenhoe Park Colchester CO4 3SQ, Essex, ENGLAND", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "The 1981 ACM Annual Conference will be held at the Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, California, November 9-11, 1981, and will feature presentations on a wide variety of topics that are of interest to today's computer professional. The program committee is soliciting contributions in the form of tutorials, proposals for panel discussions, and short technical papers or surveys. Work that addresses areas of practical importance is especially welcome. Technical papers should focus on innovations or recent advances, and should stress the connection between theory and application. Suggested topics include artificial intelligence, office automation, data base systems, and personal computing. ", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "ACM 1981 Annual Conference", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "In February 1980, a series of monthly workshops on the semantics of natural language and issues of representing knowledge was started at the IBM Systems Research Institute in New York City. The workshops are open to research workers and graduate students in the fields of artificial intelligence, cognitive psychology, computational linguistics, data base semantics, linguistics, philosophy, psycholinguistics, and symbolic logic. Nine meetings were held in 1980 with 17 speakers and about 100 attendees, many of whom came to nearly every session.", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "Workshops on Semantics and Representation of Knowledge being held in New York", "sec_num": null }, { "text": "American Journal of Computational Linguistics, Volume 6, Number 3-4, July-December 1980", "cite_spans": [], "ref_spans": [], "eq_spans": [], "section": "", "sec_num": null } ], "back_matter": [], "bib_entries": {}, "ref_entries": { "FIGREF0": { "type_str": "figure", "text": "copies of papers (maximum 12 double-spaced pages in length) should be submitted by March 7", "uris": null, "num": null }, "TABREF0": { "content": "
Business Applications
Larry Harris, Artificial Intelligence Corp.
Military Applications
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