Presentations & Guest Lectures by Simon D. Levy

• From Extropians to Evolutionary Robotics guest lecture in Philosophy 382, 30 April 2013
  
  
• Wittgenstein's Computer: Wittgenstein (Early and Late) and Modeling in Computer Science Fourth Regional Wittgenstein Workshop 11 March 2012
  
  
• A General Introduction to Modeling in Research guest lecture in BIOL 200, 03 May 2011
  
  
• Languages of Virginia, presented at the Virginia Forum, 26 March 2011
  
  
• Other Applications of Energy Minimization guest lecture in BIOL 274, 30 November 2010
  
  
• Introduction to High-Performance Computing guest lecture in BIOL 274, 17 November 2010
  
  
• Explanatory Aspirations and the Scandal of Cognitive Neuroscience, presented at the First International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 14 November 2010
  
  
• Videogames: A Personal, Biased, Unscientific Perspective guest lecture in JOUR 101, 05 November 2010
  
  
• Dynamical Cognition 2010: New Approach to Some Tough Old Problems guest lecture at Haskins Laboratories 12 April 2010
  
  
• Reasoning Under Uncertainty (Intro to Bayes Nets) guest lecture in BIOL 301, 08 April 2010
  
  
• Solving Graph Isomorphism Problems via Hyperdimensional Noise talk given to the W&L Math Department Colloquium, 30 April 2009
  
  
• Hyperdimensional Cognitive Computing talk given at the University of Richmond Math / Computer Science Colloquium, 13 April 2009
  
  
• Neural Computation, Analogical Promiscuity, and the Induction of Semantic Roles: A Preliminary Sketch, presented at Models and Simulations 3, 08 March 2009
  
  
• Vector Symbolic Architectures: A New Metaphor for Cognition, presented at Language, Communication and Cognition, 07 August 2008
  
  
• High-Performance Autonomous Robotics, presented at Applications of HPC, Grids, and Parallel Computing to Science Education, NCSA Access, Arlington, VA, 26 July 2008
  
  
• I Am Hamantaschen, and So Can You, presented at the First Annual W&L Latke/Hamantashen Debate, 20 March 2008
  
  
• Tree Search (in Computer Science 111), 18 March 2008
  
  
• Vector Symbolic Architectures: A New Building Material for Artificial General Intelligence, presented at The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08), 03 March 2008
  
  
• Language, Nature, Nurture (in Philosophy 205)
  
  
  • Language in Space and Time (05 November 2007)
    
    
  • What Evolves? (07 November 2007)
  
  
• Language: The Broken Bridge Between the Sciences and Humanities; And How to Repair It, presented at Promoting the Liberal Sciences: Science as Liberal Education, 27 October 2007
  
  
• Vector Symbolic Architectures: Constructions in the Brain, presented at Modeling Language Evolution with Computational Construction Grammar, 19 July 2007
  
  
• Preserving Language Diversity: Lessons from Amazonia, presented at the First W&L/Petrobras Conference on the Environment, Economy and Sustainable Development, 22 June 2007
  
  
• Becoming Recursive, presented at the Recursion in Human Languages Conference, 27 April 2007
  
  
• Continuous States and Distributed Symbols: Toward a Biological Theory of Computation presented at Unconventional Computation: Quo Vadis?, Santa Fe, NM, 22 March 2007
  
  
• Language in Space and Time, Psychology 257, 13 March 2007
  
  
• Distributed Representations, Philosophy 395, 09 May 2006
  
  Glossodiversity and Artificial Intelligence, presented at Transvision 2005, 23 July 2005:   English     Español
  
  
• Fractal Composition of Meaning: Toward a Collage Theorem for Language, presented at William Paterson University, 26 November 2003