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SCAR 2006 Closing Session
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Educational
Program
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Sunday, April 30
10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Hilton Austin Hotel
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Keynote
Address:
Computers versus Common Sense
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Douglas
Lenat, PhD
President and CEO, Cycorp
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One
of the founders of the Artificial Intelligence movement, Lenat and his team
have been constructing, experimenting with, and applying a broad real world
knowledge base and reasoning engine – Cyc – for more than 20 years. He
has written hundreds of journal articles, book chapters, and books. Lenat
will discuss the high hopes that many in the digital medical imaging arena
have for computers assisting them in such practices as diagnosing lesions
from images, allowing unrestricted voice input, noticing logical
consequences and contradictions in their reasoning chains, and so on. It
seems that success at such tasks is just around the corner. Unfortunately,
it's seemed that way for 30 years. What's been holding it up? The short
answer is that computers have made fine idiot savants, but have lacked
common sense: the general knowledge we all share, and fall back on as
needed, to cope with the rough edges of the real world. Lenat will talk
about how that situation is changing, finally, and what the timetable
realistically is on Artificial Intelligence, and how you can be part of the
leading edge of this process.
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At
the closing session the Roger A. Bauman award will be presented for the best
student paper presented at the 2006 annual meeting. This award was
named to honor Dr. Bauman’s distinguished career in radiological
informatics research and practice and his status as editor emeritus of the
Journal of Digital Imaging.
Scientific
Poster and Demonstration Awards will also be presented during the Closing
General Session.
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