This Symposium on Artificial and Human Intelligence, supported by the Human Factors Sub-Committee of NATO, will be held at the Chateau de Chapeau Cornu, 60 kilometers east of Lyon. Although this Symposium will contribute to our better understanding of cognitive processes, the emphasis will be on the application of current knowledge to the development and application of artificial intelligence techniques. The following are the two major topic areas to which the Symposium will address itself:
(1) The structure of memory, the representation of the problem, and the knowledge and belief base available to the problem-solver are key issues in both human and machine intelligence.
(2) The structure of language and the role that languages play in problem solving. This area is considered to include the relative roles of natural language, formal and machine languages and images in a combined man-machine problemsolving system.
Other topic areas which will be included are: Inductive, Deductive and Analogue Thinking; the role in research of expert systems, benchmarks and yardstick problems; the constraints of complexity and computability; and Priorities in AI Research: the relative roles of hardware and software---optimising research on thinking.
Within topic areas invited review papers will deal with the relevant aspect of human cognition. These, together with one or more papers on current AI research, will be precirculated and will form the basis of discussions led by invited discussants. The emphasis throughout will be on AI-oriented research and the aims and methods that such research should pursue, rather than on experimental work on human problem-solving as such.