Keynote Talk: Melanie Mitchell

Melanie Mitchell - Professor Santa Fe Institute. Mitchell's research areas include AI, cognitive science, and complex systems, with focus on conceptual abstraction and analogy-making in humans and AI systems. She authored "Complexity: A Guided Tour," which won the 2010 Phi Beta Kappa Science Book Award, and "Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans," which was named one of the five best books on AI by both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. She received her PhD from the University of Michigan under Douglas Hofstadter, with whom she developed the Copycat cognitive architecture.