National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Neuroscience Institute Seminar


Speaker:Steve Smale (Fields medalist)
Date:12 December (Thursday) 2002
Place: conference room (4th floor) of Tokyo Waterfront building,
AIST(National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology)

Program:
15:00-15:50
Mathematical foundation of learning

First talk. will be about dealing with data and the mathematics of
intelligence both machine and human. We will seek to understand some
universal laws of learning.

15:50-16:10
break

16:10-17:00
Evolution of language

Second talk. Learning mechanisms will be the basis for a dynamic of
linguistic states.  Conditions will be obtained for the evolution in a
linguistic society to converge to a common language.

For details including access information, please visit the Web page
http://www.neurosci.aist.go.jp/math-neuro/seminar-7.html


Yasunori Nishimori
National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
e-mail:y.nishimori at aist.go.jp