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Team ACASA, LIP6-CNRS University Pierre
et Marie Curie |
"Cognitive
Science" |
email:
Jean-Gabriel.Ganascia@lip6.fr |
Summary
Present position
Research
"Cognitive Science" Scientific Interest Group
Teaching
Publications
Curriculum Vitae
Books
Administrative responsabilities in research
I am currently a full professor at the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) where my main teaching is in computer studies, artificial intelligence and cognitive science. My research activities are based in the LIP6 laboratory, working in the field of Artificial Intelligence, where I am head of the ACASA research team, one of the meanings of ACASA being 'house' in Portuguese. I am also in charge of the "Cognitive Science" Scientific Interest Group, whose beautiful logo, inspired by Ramon Lull's combinatorial arts wheel, can be seen below thephotograph of the building where ACASA is housed.
Today the ACASA
research team
is working on data mining, scientific discovery and creativity. But to
begin with,
ACASA, the small research
team I gradually
built up at the University Paris VI, worked on machine learning (how
to get a
machine to learn from itself) and knowledge acquisition (how to
facilitate
the transfer of knowledge from people to machines during the building of
expert systems).
Hence the name of the research team in French: Acquisition des
Connaissances
et Apprentissage Symbolique Automatique (Knowledge
Acquisition
and Automatic Machine Learning). Since our beginnings, however, our
research has
taken different paths and now focuses more and more on knowledge
discovery in data
bases, on scientific discovery and on creativity. For further details of
my research
activities, click this link.
Summary
The "Cognitive Science" Scientific Interest Group (SIG) was set up in April 1995 and resulted from the merger of two existing and totally separate projects, one under the aegis of the CNRS since 1990, the other under the aegis of the Ministry since 1989. Three other partners, the CEA and INRIA, followed by INRETS, have since joined the Scientific Interest Group.
The aims of the "Cognitive Science" Scientific Interest Group are many and varied: to bring French research groups to the highest international standards in the interdisciplinary field of cognitive science or to maintain these standards, to facilitate contacts between research teams and laboratories working in different disciplines, and to examine possible contributions of cognitive science to the field of socio-economics. To reach these aims, the "Cognitive Science" Scientific Interest Group has five kinds of activity:
For a rapid review of the adventures of the "Cognitive
Science" Scientific Interest Group (in french), consult this
link.
Summary
Throughout my teaching career I have covered most aspects of computer science, from machine architecture to programming, from logic to algorithms to languages. As part of this activity I have written and published a number of lecture notes (logic programming, artificial intelligence, etc.) and books.
Today my teaching centers on artificial intelligence, logic programming, machine learning and cognitive science. To be more precise, I teach the following courses:
I am also in charge of the Master of science (DEA) in Artificial
Intelligence,
Pattern Recognition and Applications (IARFA,
in French), co-organized with the University Paris V, ENPC (Ecole
Nationale Supèrieure
des Ponts et Chaussées), ENST (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des
Télécommunications)
and ENSTA (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Techniques
Avancées).
Summary
Use this list of publications link to
get the
full list of everything I have published throughout my research and
teaching career,
over 180 items in all, including articles, papers, chapters in books,
complete books,
organized under different headings and presented in detail, with year of
publication,
library and page references, conference proceedings, publishers, etc.
Summary
After my initial background training in engineering and
philosophy
I was awarded a research grant by the CNRS (National
Center for Scientific Research) in order to pursue my research at the
Computer Science
Research Laboratory (LRI) at Orsay. I worked in collaboration with the
company Schlumberger
on the design of an expert system in sedimentary geology, LITHO. I
was appointed
as a teaching assistant at the University Paris-Sud in 1982 and
defended my
doctoral degree in engineering in March 1983.
I then started working on machine learning and in particular on
structural
matching and the algebraic formalization of learning algorithms using
boolean lattices.
This research gave rise to two systems, AGAPE and CHARADE, and culminated
in a PhD
in 1987.
In October 1988 I was appointed full professor at the University
Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6 University), where I pursued my
research activities
first in the LAFORIA laboratory and then the Computer Science Research
Laboratory
of Paris 6 University (LIP6). It is here
that I
gradually put together a research team, ACASA, whose initial work focused
on machine
learning and knowledge acquisition.
In the last few years the ACASA
research
team has developed a large number of applications in the fields of
scientific
discovery, musical composition, automatic indexing of multi-media
documentation,
the phonology of Chinese, etc. and they are now turning more and more
towards themes
related to scientific discovery, discovery in data bases and
creativity.
Summary
I have plans to write a number of books that would not be too academic
and, who
knows, might even be fun, but in the meantime I have already published
five of a
more academic nature on computer science, artificial intelligence and
cognitive science.
In addition to these books that I authored alone there are two collective
works of
which I was general editor.
Collective work Proceedings of EKAW
89
Summary
In addition to teaching and research, I have also been very much involved in the administration and running of various research activities: