Talks by Pat Langley


Integrated Systems for Computational Scientific Discovery. Presented at the Thirty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February, 2024. (Video).

A Unified Formalism for Constructing Embodied Agents. Presented at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Unifying Representations for Robot Application Development, October, 2023.

Introduction to Computational Scientific Discovery Presented at the European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, July, 2023.

Computational Discovery of Quantitative Process Models Presented at the European Summer School on Artificial Intelligence, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, July, 2023.

The Computational Gauntlet of Human-Like Learning (expanded version). Presented at Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, December, 2022, and Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, November, 2023.

Motion Planning and Continuous Control in a Unified Cognitive Architecture. Presented at the Tenth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, November, 2022.

Representing and Processing Emotions in a Cognitive Architecture. Presented at the Third International Workshop on Human-Like Computing, Windsor Great Park, UK, September, 2022.

Learning Hierarchical Problem Networks for Knowledge-Based Planning. Presented at the Thirty-First International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, Windsor Great Park, UK, September, 2022.

Extending an Embodied Cognitive Architecture with Spatial Representation and Reasoning. Presented at the Third International Workshop on Human-Like Computing, Windsor Great Park, UK, September, 2022.

The Computational Gauntlet of Human-Like Learning. Presented at the Thirty-Sixth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, February, 2022.

Computational Scientific Discovery: Heuristic Search for Communicable Laws and Models. Presented at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, January, 2022; University of Auckland, January, 2022.

Forty Years of Machine Learning: Metaphors, Myths, and Challenges. Presented at University of Texas at Dallas, University of Texas at Austin, October, 2021; University of Birmingham, November, 2021.

Hierarchical Problem Networks for Knowledge-Based Planning. Presented at the Ninth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, November, 2021.

Adaptive User Interfaces for Personalized Services. Presented at the Center for Design Research, Stanford University, August, 2021.

Explainable, Normative, and Justified Agency Presented at the AAAI-2021 Workshop on Explainable Agency in Artificial Intelligence, Virtual, February, 2021.

Continuous Planning and Adaptive Control in the PUG Architecture. Presented at the Virtual International Symposium on Cognitive Architecture, Ann Arbor, MI, June, 2020.

Open-World Learning for Radically Autonomous Agents. Presented at the Thirty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, New York, NY, February, 2020.

Computational Discovery of Scientific Models: Guiding Search with Knowledge and Data. Presented at SRI International, Menlo Park, CA, May, 2019.

Understanding Social Interactions by Incremental Abductive Inference. Presented at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Story-Enabled Intelligence, Stanford, CA, March, 2019.

An Architectural Perspective on Planning, Execution, and Justified Agency. Presented at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, February, 2019.

Explainable, Normative, and Justified Agency. Presented at the Thirty-Third AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Honolulu, HI, January, 2019.

An Integrative Framework for Artificial Intelligence Education. Presented at the Ninth Symposium on Educational Advances in Artificial Intelligence, Honolulu, HI, January, 2019.

Progress and Challenges in Interactive Cognitive Systems. Presented at Institute for Defense Analyses, Arlington, VA, October, 2018.

A Cognitive Architecture for Embodied Agents. Presented at A*STAR, Singapore, September, 2017.

Intelligent Behavior in Humans and Machines. Presented at A*STAR, Singapore, September, 2017.

A Cognitive Systems Analysis of Personality and Conversational Style. Presented at the Fifth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Troy, NY, May, 2017.

Generating, Executing, and Monitoring Plans with Goal-Based Utilities in Continuous Domains. Presented at the Fifth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Troy, NY, May, 2017.

Information-Processing Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, and the Cognitive Systems Paradigm. Presented at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Science of Intelligence, Stanford, CA, March, 2017.

Progress and Challenges in Research on Cognitive Architectures. Presented at the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco, CA, February, 2017.

Explainable Agency for Intelligent Autonomous Systems. Presented at the Twenty-Ninth Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco, CA, February, 2017.

Flexible Model Induction through Heuristic Process Discovery. Presented at the Thirty-First AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, San Francisco, CA, February, 2017.

Themes and Progress in Computational Scientific Discovery. Presented at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Accelerating Science, Arlington, VA, November, 2016.

An Architectural Account of Variation in Problem Solving and Execution. Presented at the Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Philadelphia, PA, August, 2016.

Goals, Utilities, and Mental Simulation in Continuous Planning. Presented at the Fourth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Evanston, IL, June, 2016.

Selective Induction of Rate-Based Process Models. Presented at the Fourth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Evanston, IL, June, 2016.

Variations on a Theory of Problem Solving. Presented at the Fourth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Evanston, IL, June, 2016.

Heuristics for Scientific Discovery in Cognitive Science: Herbert A. Simon's Legacy. Presented at the Centennial Symposium of the CMU Psychology Department, May, 2016.

Computational Discovery of Scientific Models: Guiding Search with Knowledge and Data. Presented at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, May, 2016, Imperial College London, London, UK, and University of Turino, Turino, Italy, October, 2016.

Progress and Challenges in Interactive Cognitive Systems. Presented in the IBM Cognitive Systems Institute speaker series, December, 2015.

Research Challenges for Autonomous Cognitive Systems. Presented at the ONR Science of Autonomy Meeting, Crystal City, VA, August, 2015.

An Adaptive Architecture for Radically Autonomous Systems. Presented at ONR Program Review, Arlington, VA, August, 2015.

Redesigning the ICARUS Architecture to Model Social Cognition. Presented at ONR Program Review, Arlington, VA, August, 2015.

User Modeling in Conversational Interfaces. Presented at Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ, June, 2015.

Goals, Personality, and Conversational Style. Presented at the ACS-2015 Workshop on Goal Reasoning, Atlanta, GA, May, 2015.

A Unified Framework for Knowledge-Lean and Knowledge-Rich Planning. Presented at the Third Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Atlanta, GA, May, 2015.

Computational Discovery of Scientific Models: Guiding Search with Knowledge and Data. Presented at American University, Washington, DC, February, 2015.

Heuristic Induction of Rate-Based Process Models. Presented at the Twenty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Austin, TX, January, 2015.

Challenges and Opportunities in Interactive Cognitive Systems. Presented at the University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, December 2014.

Artificial Intelligence. Presented at the University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ, October, 2014.

Themes and Progress in Computational Scientific Discovery. Presented at the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Quebec City, Quebec, July, 2014.

Social Planning: Achieving Goals by Altering Others' Mental States Presented at the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Quebec City, Quebec, July, 2014.

Integrated Interpretation and Generation of Task-Oriented Dialogue. Presented at the Fifth International Workshop on Spoken Dialog Systems, Napa, CA, January, 2014.

Understanding Social Interactions Using Incremental Abductive Inference Presented at the Second Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Baltimore, Maryland, December, 2013.

Computational Discovery of Scientific Models: Guiding Search with Knowledge and Data. Inaugural Lecture at the University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ, October, 2013.

Symposium on Cognitive Systems and Discovery Informatics Presented at the Symposium on Cognitive Systems and Discovery Informatics, Moffett Field, CA, June, 2013.

Altering the ICARUS Architecture to Model Social Cognition. Presented at ONR Program Review, Arlington, VA, May, 2013.

A Web-Based Environment for Explanatory Biological Modeling. Presented at the CMUSV Symposium on Cognitive Systems and Discovery Informatics, Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley, June, 2013.

Opportunities and Challenges in Cognitive Systems Research. Presented at Bloomreach, Mountain View, CA, June, 2013.

The Cognitive Systems Paradigm. Presented at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Advances in Cognitive Systems, Arlington, VA, November, 2011.

Computational Support for Systems Biology of Aging. An Interactive Modeling Environment for Systems Biology of Aging. Presented at the Fifth Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence Conference, Cambridge, UK, September, 2011.

An Interactive Modeling Environment for Systems Biology of Aging. Presented at the Microsoft eScience Workshop, Berkeley, CA, October, 2010. Earlier version presented at National Institute on Aging, Baltimore, MD, December, 2009.

Cognitive Architectures and Virtual Intelligent Agents. Presented at the Tenth Biannual Meeting of the German Society for Cognitive Science, October, 2010.

Cognitive Architectures and Virtual Intelligent Agents. Presented at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, January, 2010.

Mental Simulation and Learning in the Icarus Architecture. Presented at ONR Program Review, Alexandria, VA, May, 2009.

Processes and Constraints in Scientific Model Construction. Presented at the Microsoft Research eScience Workshop, Indianalopis, IN, December, 2008.

Modeling Social Cognition in a Unified Cognitive Architecture. Presented at the ONR Workshop on Social Cognition, Cambridge, MA, February, 2008.

A Unified Cognitive Architecture for Embodied Agents. Presented at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, February, 2008.

Computational Discovery of Explanatory Process Models. Presented at the Microsoft Research eScience Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC, October, 2007.

Challenges for the Computational Discovery of Scientific Knowledge. Presented at the Workshop on Next-Generation Data Mining, Baltimore, MD, October, 2007.

Robust Reasoning and Learning about Goal-Directed Activities. Presented at the ARO Workshop on Abductive Inference, College Park, MD, August, 2007.

Varieties of Problem Solving in a Unified Cognitive Architecture. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Nashville, TN, August, 2007.

A Cognitive Architecture for Integrated Intelligent Agents. Presented at Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA, March, 2007.

An Interactive Environment for Scientific Model Discovery. Presented at the NSF Workshop on Innovation, Creativity, and Design, Austin, TX, December, 2006.

Expertise, Transfer, and Innovation in Cognitive Systems. Presented at the NSF Workshop on Transfer, Expertise, and Innovation, Arlington, VA, November, 2006.

A Unified Cognitive Architecture for Physical Agents. Presented at the Twenty-First National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Boston, MA, July, 2006.

Intelligent Behavior in Humans and Machines. Presented at the Dartmouth Artificial Intelligence Conference: The Next Fifty Years, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH, July, 2006.

Transfer of Knowledge in Cognitive Systems. Presented at the ICML-2006 Workshop on Structural Knowledge Transfer for Machine Learning, Pittsburgh, PA, June, 2006.

Learning Hierarchical Task Networks by Analyzing Expert Traces. Presented at the DARPA IPTO Meeting on Integrated Learning, Detroit, MI, June, 2006.

A Cognitive Architecture for Physical Agents. Presented at the Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, March, 2006.

Cognitive Architectures: Psychological Constraints as Effective Heuristics for Designing Intelligent Systems. Presented at the AAAI Spring Symposium on Cognitive Science Principles Meet AI-Hard Problems, Stanford, CA, March, 2006.

An Extended Theory of Human Problem Solving. Presented at the Twenty-Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Stresa, Italy, July, 2005.

Computational Discovery of Communicable Scientific Models. Presented at the AAAI-2005 Workshop on Human Comprehensible Machine Learning, Pittsburgh, PA, July, 2005.

Learning Hierarchical Task Networks from Problem Solving . Presented at the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, June, 2005.

Architectures for Adaptive Interpretation . Presented at the DARPA IPTO Workshop on Learning by Reading, Seattle, WA, June, 2005.

Cumulative Learning of Relational and Hierarchical Skills from Problem Solving . Presented at the Bidders' Conference for the DARPA IPTO Program on Transfer Learning, Arlgingon, VA, March, 2005.

Architectures for Intelligent Systems. Presented at the AAAI Fall Symposium on Achieving Human-Level Intelligence through Integrated Systems and Research, Crystal City, VA, November, 2004.

Computational Revision of Ecological Process Models. Presented at Fourth International Workshop on Environmental Applications of Machine Learning. Bled, Solvenia, September, 2004.

Experimental Studies of Integrated Cognitive Systems. Presented at the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop, NIST, August, 2004.

Computational Discovery of Explanatory Process Models. Presented at DIMACS/GERARD Worksop on Computers and Discovery, University of Montreal, June, 2004.

A Cognitive Architecture for Physical Agents. Presented at Carnegie Mellon University, June, 2004.

Machine Learning for Cognitive Systems. Presented at the DARPA IPTO Cognitive Systems Conference, Arlington, VA, November, 2003.

Robust Induction of Process Models from Time-Series Data. Presented at the Twentieth International Conference on Machine Learning, August, 2003.

Machine Learning for Cognitive Networks. Presented at the DARPA Workshop on the Knowledge Plane, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May, 2003.

Challenges in the Computational Discovery of Scientific Knowledge. Presented at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, April, 2003.

A Value-Driven Architecture for Intelligent Behavior. Presented at the Symposium on Advances in Cognitive Architectures, Stanford University, March, 2003.

Adaptive User Interfaces for Personalized Services (updated version). October, 2002.

Filtering Information in Complex Temporal Domains. Presented at Human-Centered Computing Review, Johnson Space Center, October, 2002.

Challenges in the Computational Modeling of Gene Regulation. Presented at the Frontiers of Bioinformatics-Based Post-Genome Analysis, Tokyo, Japan, October, 2002.

Machine Learning of Grammatical Knowledge. Presented at Stanford/NTT Workshop, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, September, 2002.

Interactive Software Environments for Computational Modeling and Discovery. Presented at University College Cork, Ireland, July 2002.

Induction of Process Models from Continuous Data. Presented at the Nineteenth International Conference on Machine Learning, Sydney, Australia, July, 2002.

Lessons for the Computational Discovery of Scientific Knowledge. Presented at the ICML-2002 Workshop on Data Mining Lessons Learned, Sydney, Australia, July, 2002.

Heuristics for Scientific Discovery: The Legacy of Herbert Simon. Presented at the Twenty-Third Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, August, 2001.

Knowledge and Data in Computational Biological Discovery. Presented at the Second International Conference on Model-Based Reasoning, Pavia, Italy.

Adaptive User Interfaces for Personalized Services. Presented at the Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence.

The Computer-Aided Discovery of Scientific Knowledge. Presented at the First International Conference on Discovery Science, Fukuoka, Japan.

Machine Learning for Adaptive User Interfaces. Updated version of presentation at the 21st German Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Freiburg, Germany.

User's Manual for Interactive Knowledge Discovery Environment. Draft, July, 2002.

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