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ISSUE 01 HLC Newsletter D e c e m b e r 2 0 1 8 this issue Awards, Media & Funding 1 Events & Publications 2 Welcome to the HLC Events & Calls 3 Network Upcoming Events 4 Welcome to the first newsletter of the Human-Like Computing network. Thanks to all those who sent in news items. In the descriptions below you will see impressive and substantial progress has been made during 2018. Development of a cohesive community of scientific We are now starting to prepare researchers in the area of Human-Like Computing for issuing (in March 2019) the next annual call for Kick-start (HLC) SME events, Travel and Endorsements. Awards Funding Patrick G.T. Healey (Queen Mary Patrick G.T. Healey (Queen Mary University We will also shortly be sending University of London) has started as a of London) and Hamed Haddadi (Imperial out a call for the MI21-HLC Turing Fellow at the Alan Turing College London) have been awarded a Kick meeting to be held from 30th Institute. Start Grant from the HLC Network for their June to 3rd July 2019 at proposal entitled “Social Sensing”. Cumberland Lodge. Like the Mateja Jamnik (University of MI20-HLC meeting, this Cambridge) became an Associate Francesca Toni (Imperial College London), Fellowship at the Leverhulme Centre for Dave Lagnado and Christos Bechlivanidis workshop will provide high- the Future of Intelligence(UK). (UCL) have been awarded a Kick Start Grant level presentations and from the HLC Network for their proposal discussions on a wide-variety entitled ‘Evaluating dialectical explanations for of topics relevant to HLC. recommendations’. In the meantime I would Media Nick Chater (University of Warwick), Adam like to wish you all a very Stephen Muggleton, Francesca Toni Sanborn (University of Warwick, Happy Christmas and New and Alessio Lomuscio (Imperial Psychology) and PhD student Zhu Jianqiao Year. College London) all featured in an (University of Warwick), have received article entitled “Machines we can trust, funding for a short project applying sampling Stephen Muggleton, learn from and collaborate with” models of individual probability judgements to Director of the EPSRC by David Silverman. financial markets, from the National Institute HLC Network Read more: for Economic and Social Research. The http://www.imperial.ac.uk/enterprise/i question is whether a computational models of ssues/explainable-ai/ individual cognition can 'scale-up' to explain patterns and biases in the collective behaviour of many thousands of people. Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge) 1 received funding from the ESRC DTC for a PhD Studentship with collaborator in Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge on “AI tutor”. Events, seminars, competitions and key note talks F Mateja Jamink speaking at the Berlin Science Festival public talk: ETH Zurich event on 6th November 2018 Francesca Toni (Imperial College In September 2018, Stephen Muggleton Top journals, conference papers London) hosted the Explain AI@Imperial (Imperial College London) visited Josh Workshop on 25th April 2018. Tenenbaum (MIT) and they held a series of and publications discussions on the form of experiments to This workshop aimed to bring together be conducted on relevance-detection for Xue Li, Alan Bundy and Alan doctoral, early-stage and experienced background knowledge. The plan is the experiments should compare human Smaill (University of Edinburgh) researchers working in all areas of AI where learning (MIT group) with machine learning "ABC Repair System for Datalog-like there is either a need for explainability or Theories",10th International Joint (Imperial group) on comparable tasks. potential for providing explainability. Conference on Knowledge Discovery, Read more : Knowledge Engineering and Francesca Toni (Imperial College https://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~afr114/explainAI/i London) was a PC member of the 7th Knowledge Management, 2018. ndex.html Read more : International Conference on Computational Models of Argument, 12-14 September http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/e Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College 2018, Warsaw, Poland n/persons/alan-bundy%28bfb547ed- London) was invited to be a panelist at the Read More : a4df-4a6c-b1be- Times Higher Education Huawei Academic 8ecd9b13419f%29.html Salon, London (June 2018). http://comma.csc.liv.ac.uk/node/25 Alan Bundy, Kwabena Nuamah and Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College “The main stakeholders in Christopher Lucas (University of London) was an invited speaker at SYNT18 Edinburgh), "Automated Reasoning in July 2018 and gave a talk about Meta- our project are: other in the Age of the Internet", Invited Interpretive Learning (MIL), which is a recent Talk at 13th International Conference Inductive Logic Programming technique researchers within both on Artificial Intelligence and Symbolic aimed at supporting learning of recursive Artificial Intelligence and Computation, 2018. definitions. Read more : Read more : Cognitive Science” http://www.research.ed.ac.uk/portal/e http://synt2018.seas.ucla.edu/invited.html n/persons/alan-bundy%28bfb547ed- Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College a4df-4a6c-b1be- Francesca Toni (Imperial College London) was invited to give a talk at MLE18 8ecd9b13419f%29.html London) was a Senior PC member of the (Machine Learning and Explainability) in 27th International Joint Conference on Orleans in October 2018. This event was Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) and 23rd supported by the Artificial Intelligence Patrick G.T. Healey (Queen Mary European Conference on Artificial Journal. University of London) recently Intelligence (ECAI), (Serior PC member), 9- Stephen's talk described work in the published a special issue of Topics in 19 July, 2018, Stockholm, Sweden. following recently published paper.S.H. Cognitive Science on Read More: https://www.ijcai-18.org/ Muggleton, U. Schmid, C. Zeller, Miscommunication: A. Tamaddoni-Nezhad, and https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/175 Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College T. Besold. Ultra-strong machine learning - 68765/10/2 London) was invited to be a Keynote comprehensibility of programs learned with speaker at Pacific Rim International ILP. Machine Learning, 107:1119-1140, The editorial from this was included in Conference on Artificial Intelligence 2018 a special journal issue “Visions of (PRICAI), Nanjing, (August 2018). Cognitive Science” to mark the 40th Read more : http://cse.seu.edu.cn/pricai18/ Read more : Anniversary of the Cognitive Science https://www.univ- Society. orleans.fr/lifo/Members/vrain/MLE18/WS_ 2 MLE18.html Calls Special Session on Interpretable Machine Learning at ECDA 2019 Eneldo Mencia, Johannes Fürnkranz (TU Darmstadt), and Ute Schmid (Uni Bamberg) are organizing a session on "Interpretable Machine Learning" for the European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA) which will take place in Bayreuth from March 18th to 20th 2019. This is a follow-up to a session to the same topic which has been held at ECDA 2018. The scientific program of the conference features many Opening ceremony for Nanjing-Imperial Machine Learning Hub - 26th August 2018 specialized sections, which are filled based on submitted abstracts. Full papers may be submitted after the conference Events, seminars, competitions and for journal publication. For details please refer to the key note talks conference Web site http://www.gfkl.org/ecda2019/ Stephen Muggleton (Imperial College London) Francesca Toni (Imperial College London) was For our session "Interpretable was invited to give a keynote talk at the A* STAR a Program Co-Chair at the 16th International Machine Learning", we solicit Scientific Conference on 23rd October 2018. This Conference on Principles of Knowledge contributions that year’s theme was "Collisions: From Representation and Reasoning, 30 October-2 (i) discuss and evaluate the Imagination to Impact" and they aimed to November, 2018, Tempe, Arizona, USA. Read interpretability of various types explore how one branch of knowledge can more: of machine learning models, influence others, so that what we imagine http://reasoning.eas.asu.edu/kr2018/ (ii) use representations which becomes possible and delivers impact. are understandable by experts Read more : Patrick G.T. Healey (Queen Mary University of and even non-experts, https://www.a-star.edu.sg/News-and- London gave a talk at the Alan Turing Institute on (iii) introduce models that can Events/News/Other-Highlights/ID/7319 “Miscommunication” on Friday 30th November to be inspected, verified, and the Social Data Science group. possibly also modified by non- Francesca Toni (Imperial College London) was expert users, a PC member of the Reasoning with Ambiguous Nick Chater (University of Warwick) has been (iv) offer explanations or and Conflicting Evidence and Recommendations 'touring' his book in the US "The Mind is Flat" with visualizations of their decisions talks at Harvard, MIT, Columbia, Princeton, Yale in Medicine - Workshop at the 16th International and and, more locally, Paris, Edinburgh, London, Conference on Principles of Knowledge perhaps less obviously, Harrogate, and Ilkley. (v) develop methods for Representation and Reasoning, 29 October 2018, interpretable learning in Tempe, Arizona, USA Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge) gave complex domains like multi- Read more : a talk at the Berlin Science Festival public talk: ETH target learning or structured https://sites.google.com/view/medracer Zurich event on Man and Machine: The output prediction. Emergence of Artificial Intelligence, 6 November Mateja Jamnik (University of Cambridge) will 2018. Title of talk: “Man and Machine”
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