The Strachey Lecture, in cooperation with the Federated Logic Conference (F...
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Unifying logic and probability: The BLOG language - Professor Stuart Russell, University of California
Logic and probability are ancient subjects whose unification holds significant potential for the field of artificial intelligence. The BLOG (Bayesian LOGic) language provides a way to write probability models using syntactic and semantic devices from first-order logic. In modern parlance, it is a relational, open-universe probabilistic programming language that allows one to define probability distributions over the entire space of first-order model structures that can be constructed given the constant, function, and predicate symbols of the program. In this public lecture, Stuart Russell will describe the language mainly through examples and cover its application to monitoring the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
Doors open at 4.30 pm, please be seated by 4.50 pm.
The Strachey Lectures are generously supported by OxFORD Asset Management.
