Fall 1998

IMA Period of Concentration:

Forging an Appropriate Immune Response as a Problem
in Distributed Artificial Intelligence

October 19-23, 1998

Organizers:

Stephanie Forrest
University of New Mexico

and

Lee Segel
Weizmann Institute of Science

PERIOD OF CONCENTRATION SCHEDULE

All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.

MONDAY, OCTOBER 19
8:45 am	Registration and Coffee	Reception Room EE/CS 3-176
9:15 am	Fred Dulles IMA	Introduction
9:30 am	Lee Segel Weizmann Institute of Science	Feedbacks Toward Multiple Conflicting Partial Goals in Immunological and Other Distributed Autonomous Systems
10:30 am	Coffee Break	Lind Hall Room 400
11:00 am	Jeff Kephart IBM Research Laboratory	An Anti-Computer Virus Immune System
NOTE SPECIAL LOCATION AND TIME: Computer Science Seminar Room EE/CS 3-125
2:30 pm	Stephanie Forrest University of New Mexico	New Approaches to Computer Security: Immunology and Intrusion Detection
3:40 pm	Matthew Mescher Center for Immunology University of Minnesota	Activation of cytotoxic T lymphocytes (`killer cells')
4:45 pm	IMA Tea	Lind Hall 400
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 20 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted.
9:00 am	Marc Jenkins Center for Immunology U of Minnesota	The Anatomy of T-Cell Activation and Tolerance
10:30 am	Coffee Break	EE/CS 3-176
11:00 am	Eli Sercarz La Jolla Inst. for Allergy & Immunology	[I.] On the meaning of self, and why we make self-reactiveresponses First of two lectures, with subtitles Overall Abstract: Homunculi and Golems: Determinism and Unpredictability in the Immune System
2:00 pm	Steve Hofmeier Computer Science University of New Mexico	Ideas from immunology for promoting computer security
3:30 pm	Coffee Break	EE/CS 3-176
4:00 pm	Jeff Kephart Lecture 2 (if patent formalities permit) Otherwise: Stephanie Forrest	TBA
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 All talks are in Lecture Hall EE/CS 3-180 unless otherwise noted
9:30 am	Eli Sercarz La Jolla Inst. for Allergy & Immunology	[II.] Antigen Presentation and Processing and the MHC
11:00 am	Diana Richards Department of Political Science University of Minnesota	Collective Choice and Mutual Knowledge Structures Joint work with B.D. McKay and W.A. Richards.
2:00 pm	Bob Blakley IBM	Forging an Ineffective Immune Response: Lessons from Two Decades of Computer Security
3:30 pm	Coffee Break	EE/CS 3-176
4:00 pm	Nikos Papanikolopoulos Computer Science and Engineering University of Minnesota	Distributed Reconfigurable Robots and Applications
6:00 pm	Period of Concentration Dinner
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22 To be announced.

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