Pedro DOMINGOS
University of Washington, USA
TENTATIVE TITLE: Learning, Logic, and Probability: A Unified View

BIO: Pedro Domingos is Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington. His research interests are in artificial intelligence, machine learning and data mining. He received a PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California at Irvine, and is the author or co-author of over 100 technical publications. He is a member of the advisory board of JAIR, a member of the editorial board of the Machine Learning journal, and a co-founder of the International Machine Learning Society. He was program co-chair of KDD-2003, and has served on numerous program committees. He has received several awards, including a Sloan Fellowship, an NSF CAREER Award, a Fulbright Scholarship, an IBM Faculty Award, and best paper awards at KDD-98, KDD-99 and PKDD-2005.

Alan RECTOR
University of Manchester, UK
TENTATIVE TITLE: Whose knowledge? Whose questions? Whose answers? Conflicting Preconceptions for Knowledge Intensive Systems


Andrzej NOWAK
Warsaw University, Poland
Information and influence in social networks
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