Matjaz Gams
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Jozef Stefan Institute,
Intelligent Systems Department,
Jamova 39, 1000
Ljubljana,
Slovenia WWW,
Slovenia info
Phone: (+386)(61) 1773 900, Fax: (+386)(61) 1258 058,
E-mail: matjaz.gams@ijs.si
Info for students
Lectures and exams for students of
Faculty of Education
Lectures and exams for students of
Faculty of Economics
Lectures and exams for students of
Faculty of Social Sciences
Recent books:
Mind Versus Computer,
Information society 1998
Forthcoming conferences:
Information Society'99
and
SSCC'99
Recent RTV SLO 1 clip,
(part 2),
POP TV clip;
Recent Slovenian speech online,
Recent bad day,
Recent Droids,
Recent JavaScript test pages
Personal:
- B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1978
Subject of the thesis: Computer-generated chess end-games
- M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1981
Subject: Reasoning in electric circuits
- Ph.D. in Computer science, 1989
Subject: Principles of unification in machine learning.
- J. Stefan Institute,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
- from 1977, researcher (from undergraduate to senior researcher)
- member of several boards, commissions and committees; currently
president of the IJS/SVIZ union,
president of The society of
cognitive sciences, deputy head of the
Intelligent Systems Department,
a member of the Board of Governors of the Jozef Stefan Institute,
member (and previous deputy coordinator) of Computer and Informatics Research Board
in Slovenia,
member of AAAI and
IEEE societies.
Among others, he was a co-founder of the Engineering academy of Slovenia and
the Society of natural and technical sciences in Slovenia
(IAS and SATENA) , a
co-founder and the first vice president of the Slovenian association of
artificial intelligence (SLAIS),
a co-founder and the first president of
The society of cognitive
sciences, vice-president of the Yugoslavian association for AI (YUGAI),
and a delegate in ECCAI, the
European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence.
- University of Ljubljana,
Ljubljana, Slovenia
- areas: intelligent systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning,
intelligent agents, multiple knowledge representations, AI and cognitive
sciences
-
all publications (around 140 in journals, magazines, books, proceedings)
- executive contact editor of the Informatica magazine (see
Informatica WWW site
or the old
Informatica FTP site)
- member of editorial boards of the
Intelligent Data Analysis
journal,
AI
Communications journal,
Knowledge and Information Systems journal, and the Noetic journal,
- member of several scientific organisations; currently secretary of
Slovenian association for technical and natural sciences
(SATENA),
president of The society of
cognitive sciences, and of the Slovenian association of artificial
intelligence
(SLAIS), and
a member of the Executive Board the Informatika society
- member of several PC's of conferences and workshops; approx. 3-5 per year;
organised several WS and conferences.
- (co)authored or translated a couple of books in Slovenian and
Croatian language, for example books Good programming styles, The joy of
computers, Computer dictionaries and lexicons; together published in several
10.000 copies, edited a couple of English books such as
Recent book: Mind Versus Computer
- around 50 technical publications (see
all publications)
- editor of magazines, reports (e.g., the JSI annual report) and other
publications in English and Slovene.
- various computer-science courses (together over 10) at the Faculty of
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; Faculty of Education,
Faculty of Social Sciences, and Faculty of Economics, University of Ljubljana
- supervisor of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students at University of Ljubljana
and University of Maribor
- one course at the First high school Bezigrad, one postgraduate course at
the Vojvodina University.
Changes of the Triglav glacier
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