The first class(ification)-oriented representational...

Google TechTalks April 19, 2006 Lev Goldfarb ABSTRACT Any environment can be viewed as a multitude of evolving and interacting classes of 'objects'. Why hasn't this simple and unifying view inspired the organization of various databases and search engines, as well as the development of AI, and CS in general? I suggest that the primary (and non-obvious) reason for the current state of affairs is the total lack of class-oriented representational formalisms in CS, and indeed in all sciences. As to the substantial efforts exerted by the pattern recognition and machine learning communities to understand classification, all such efforts have been confined to conventional representational...