Data: Quinta-feira, 10/06/2010
Hora: 15:00
Local: Auditório Verde
Idioma: Inglês

 ABSTRACT

Three different topics will be presented in this talk, all illustrated with several live demonstrations.
We will first present our work in the field of Sensory Motor intelligence, and show how Piaget and Interactivist theory can be used to create models of active perception, and how it helps to solve impasses in which symbolic AI is trapped. We will then present a more applied work on medecine and nutrition, where classical methods of artificial intelligence are used in medical
application software, for example to fix unbalanced meals. Finally a teaching project will be presented, where students build and program their own 32-bit microprocessor, using a structured description langage and FPGA boards.

SHORT CV

I’m a professor of Toulouse University, in the Computer Science department of a school of engineering called ENSEEIHT.

As a researcher, I’ve been conducting an applied work on nutrition and diabetes in collaboration with the Diabetology Department of the Rangueil Hospital in Toulouse for more than 15 years. At the same time, I’m working in the more theoretical field of cognitive science, trying to model the ideas of Jean Piaget, the interactivism movement and all approaches where the agent activity is a the heart of cognition and behavior.

As a teacher, I’m mainly interested in computer architecture, which lead to the creation of SHDL, a structural digital design language, and of CRAPS, a do-it-yourself 32 bit microprocessor implemented with FPGAs.