tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-79313171420967528042011-04-21T16:01:44.904-07:00Timo Honkelanoreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931317142096752804.post-47114755414443795842008-08-25T07:24:00.000-07:002008-08-25T07:33:00.778-07:00<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RhmGi3WKf14/SLLBjOlZRrI/AAAAAAAAAFU/4_Kz8xOYFmQ/s1600-h/southern_finland_weather_25aug08.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RhmGi3WKf14/SLLBjOlZRrI/AAAAAAAAAFU/4_Kz8xOYFmQ/s200/southern_finland_weather_25aug08.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238462127539832498" /></a>Weather in Southern Finland is still summerly, giving some hints on the approaching autumn, though. Lately it has been mostly sunny and the temperature has been close to +20C. For the evenings, it is advisable to have some warmer clothes.<br /><br />You can easily follow the current weather and forecasts at the web page of Finnish Meteorological Institute: <a href="http://www.fmi.fi/weather/local.html?kunta=Porvoo">http://www.fmi.fi/weather/local.html?kunta=Porvoo</a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7931317142096752804-4711475541444379584?l=akrr08.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Timo Honkelanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931317142096752804.post-92102625815375837482008-08-25T06:45:00.000-07:002008-08-25T07:14:42.853-07:00The AKRR'08 conference programme is available at<br /><a href="http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR08/programme.shtml">http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR08/programme.shtml</a><br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RhmGi3WKf14/SLK-Kd7Qj8I/AAAAAAAAAFM/5BSinyb405w/s1600-h/programme_logo2.png"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_RhmGi3WKf14/SLK-Kd7Qj8I/AAAAAAAAAFM/5BSinyb405w/s200/programme_logo2.png" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238458403626454978" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7931317142096752804-9210262581537583748?l=akrr08.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Timo Honkelanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931317142096752804.post-34863997907654029322008-08-20T06:52:00.000-07:002008-08-25T07:16:46.294-07:00The scientific programme of <a href="http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR08/">AKRR'08</a>, international and interdisciplinary conference on Adaptive Knowledge Representation and Reasoning begins on Wednesday morning 17th of August and ends in the late afternoon of Friday 19th of August. <br /><br />There will be six keynote presentations. Two of the presentations by Marie Cottrell and José Príncipe are organized in collaboration with the colocated <a href="event.http://www.estsp.org/">ESTSP'08</a> event. The four AKRR'08 keynotes include "Neurocognitive Approach to Natural Language Understanding and Creativity" by Wlodzislaw Duch, "Cognitive Architectures and Cognitive Social Simulation" by Ron Sun, "Language Technology and Machine Translation in the European Funding Programmes: the Quest for a New Paradigm" by Kimmo Rossi, and "From Raw Data to Abstract Concepts" by Harri Valpola.<br /><br />The abstracts of the keynote presentations are available at <a href="http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR08/keynote.shtml">http://www.cis.hut.fi/AKRR08/keynote.shtml</a><br /><br />The contributed and invited papers are presented in sessions that include Learning systems, Cognitive architectures, Language and cognition, and Healthcare systems.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RhmGi3WKf14/SKwo1QhASoI/AAAAAAAAAFE/cO3EJi--BKo/s1600-h/haikko_manor.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_RhmGi3WKf14/SKwo1QhASoI/AAAAAAAAAFE/cO3EJi--BKo/s320/haikko_manor.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236605362156620418" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7931317142096752804-3486399790765402932?l=akrr08.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Timo Honkelanoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7931317142096752804.post-82162725188301603002008-08-20T06:27:00.000-07:002008-08-20T06:43:48.485-07:00AKRR'08 blog is now available for all who are participating or otherwise interested in the international and interdisciplinary AKRR'08 conference. The blog will be used before the conference to announce and discuss conference preparations and to provide information on practical matters. During the conference the presentations and discussions can be reported.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RhmGi3WKf14/SKwd59gPLoI/AAAAAAAAAE8/QvBmMuoGN0w/s1600-h/haikko_welcome.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_RhmGi3WKf14/SKwd59gPLoI/AAAAAAAAAE8/QvBmMuoGN0w/s320/haikko_welcome.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5236593348324568706" /></a><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7931317142096752804-8216272518830160300?l=akrr08.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Timo Honkelanoreply@blogger.com0