Pei Wang (王培)

Lecturer, Department of Computer and Information Science, Temple University

Pei Wang is a lecturer of the Department of Computer and Information Science at Temple University in Philadelphia. He served as the Co-Chair of the Program Committee of AGI-08, and edited the proceedings of the conference.

His research project is NARS (Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System), a general-purpose reasoning system. It brings together the fields of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Cognitive Sciences (CogSci). The ability of the system to learn from its experience and to work with insufficient knowledge and resources sets it apart from conventional reasoning systems.

The project attempts to uniformly explain and reproduce many cognitive facilities, including reasoning, learning, planning, reacting, perceiving, categorizing, prioritizing, remembering, decision making, and so on. The research results include a theory of intelligence, a formal model of the theory, and a computer implementation of the model. The ultimate goal of this research is to build a thinking machine. More information is available on his selected publications page online.

Dr. Pei Wang received his PhD in Computer Science and Cognitive Science from Indiana University in 1995. His thesis was titled Non-Axiomatic Reasoning System --- Exploring the Essence of Intelligence, which received the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Cognitive Science Program of Indiana University in 1996. His advisor was Douglas R. Hofstadter, whose book Godel, Escher, Bach he helped translating into Chinese. He has an M.S. and B.S. in Computer Science, both from Peking University.

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What Do You Mean by "AI"?

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May 2008, AGI-08, What Do You Mean by "AI"?