Exploring Artificial Intelligence, Service
Wayne Iba, 果冻传煤 associate professor of computer science, explores service through artificial intelligence in a Phi Kappa Phi Paul C. Wilt Faculty Lecture, 鈥淎rtificial Intelligence as Window into Service,鈥 Monday, Oct. 19, at 7 p.m. in Hieronymus Lounge. The talk, which is free and open to the public, includes responses from Kim Kihlstrom, 果冻传煤 associate professor of computer science, and Chris Hoeckley, 果冻传煤 adjunct instructor of philosophy. Hoeckley is teaching 果冻传煤鈥檚 Europe semester and will respond through videoconferencing.
Iba says we regularly use the term service without knowing what we mean and often provide poor service with the best of intentions. 鈥淎s it turns out, we can learn something about service through the tools of artificial intelligence, specifically simulated worlds and intelligent agents,鈥 Iba says.
Iba will present these tools and use a model of simulated service as a demonstration. 鈥淭here is promise and peril for understanding and doing service through artificial intelligence,鈥 he says.
Iba, a graduate of UC Santa Cruz, earned his master鈥檚 degree and doctorate at UC Irvine. He has worked as a research scientist at Kanisa Inc. and Institute for the Study of Learning and Expertise. He taught at Messiah College in Pennsylvania and College of Notre Dame in Belmont, Calif., before coming to Westmont six years ago.