[rules-users] Fwd: Press Release: Call to Relieve Constraints on AI

Tue Aug 2 17:17:32 EDT 2011

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Rules Fest 2011

*PRESS RELEASE*

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The Need to Relieve Constraints on Artificial Intelligence 
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Addressed at Rules Fest 2011 
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/Veteran AI Leaders Paul Haley and Said Tabet Slated to Address Developers /

/San Francisco, CA, August 2, 2011– /Organizers today posted the 
abstracts for keynote speakers for Rules Fest 2011 
<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?VisionArtsCommunicat/a0cdd8f89d/11698b4526/b2063dfad4>, 
the International Conference on Reasoning Technologies, a conference by 
developers for developers scheduled for the San Francisco Bay Area this 
October 2011.

In a session titled “Roadmap for Rules, Semantics, and Business,” Paul 
Haley 
<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?VisionArtsCommunicat/a0cdd8f89d/11698b4526/819a3e9542>, 
who has been working to commercialize artificial intelligence for more 
than three decades, says understanding the requirements for semantic 
technology in enterprise vs. the capabilities of rules engines exposes 
the need for more classic artificial intelligence and reasoning in our 
technology, more emphasis on knowledge than rules in our services, and 
more emphasis on knowledge technology strategy in the executive suite. 
Haley will discuss the challenge that while semantic technology is 
inevitably mainstream, it remains largely divorced from the activity of 
knowledge engineering as practiced using business rule engines embedded 
within business process management or complex event processing systems.

Semantic technology encodes meanings separately from data and content 
files, and separately from application code. This enables machines as 
well as people to understand, share and reason with them at execution 
time. Semantic technologies make it easy to add, change and implement 
new relationships or interconnecting programs in a different way. For 
example, a context-aware, semantically-enabled system is able to 
distinguish terms that are labeled differently but have the same 
meaning, as well as terms that share the same label but have entirely 
different meanings.

Cloud trust, information governance, risk management, and compliance, 
distributed systems, mobile applications all offer a unique opportunity 
to realize the true potential of knowledge technology. These systems are 
usually covered by service level agreements that are rules-based.

Dr. Tabet’s discussion 
<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?VisionArtsCommunicat/a0cdd8f89d/11698b4526/dff6555277>, 
“Semantic Technologies and the Cloud: Rules for the Next Generation,” 
addresses the major challenges in information management while the 
business environment also witnesses the drastic shift to cloud 
computing. Dr. Tabet will address the trend of constraining artificial 
intelligence and knowledge technologies in legacy environments, and says 
enterprise knowledge management needs strong semantic technologies, 
powerful inferencing systems, and advanced machine learning capabilities 
– not more sophisticated spreadsheets. Dr. Tabet was a co-founder of the 
RuleML Initiative in 2000, involved in artificial intelligence and its 
applications for well over a decade. He recently refocused his efforts 
on RuleML and Business Rules, XML, RDF and the Semantic Web as well as 
deductive reasoning in financial services.

Rules Fest 
<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?VisionArtsCommunicat/a0cdd8f89d/11698b4526/72cd85bf95>, 
hosted by the non-profit Rules Fest Association, is a technical 
conference geared toward software developers, engineers, programmers and 
architects who create solutions to complex computing problems using 
/reasoning technologies/ 
<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?VisionArtsCommunicat/a0cdd8f89d/11698b4526/6c855e2256>: 
rule-engines, logical reasoners, constraint-solvers, and other such 
building-blocks of practical artificial intelligence (AI). More than 200 
developers, engineers, programmers, and architectsfrom around the globe 
are expected to attend the conference in Burlingame, California.

The conference will also feature a Career Center to address the war for 
developer talent in technology companies. Companies seeking advanced 
programming talent are invited to submit their open positions for 
posting at no charge.

*Conference Fee and Package Pricing
*The standard fee for the conference is $499.  All bootcamps – 
addressing specific programming challenges and technologies -- are $299. 
For a limited time, Rules Fest organizers are offering an early bird 
rate of $1249 including an all-access conference pass, four nights at 
the Hyatt Regency Burlingame, a boot camp of choice, and 10% off from 
next year’s conference. This “early bird” rate is available until 
September 30. Early discounts are also available for general admission 
and for bootcamps without a hotel stay. To register, attendees should 
visit the conference registration site 
<http://cts.vresp.com/c/?VisionArtsCommunicat/a0cdd8f89d/11698b4526/c616b64a7c> 
on the conference website.

*About Rules Fest*
The non-profit Rules Fest™ Association, Inc. produces the annual Rules 
Fest conference, the world's only technical conference devoted to the 
practical application of all reasoning technologies.

For a better understanding of reasoning systems, visit 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reasoning_System 
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For information, contact info at rulesfest.org 
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Media contact:**brenda at visionartscommunications.com 
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