The 1994 GWIC was held June 6th, 7th and 8th, 1994, on the Campus of the
UNLV. It was sponsored by UNLV, UNR, and ACM-SIGART. The keynote
speakers were Prof. Bonnie Weber of the University of Pennsylvania, Prof
Stuart Shapiro, Director of the Center for Cognitive Science at SUNY at
Buffalo, and Prof. Nicolas Bourbakis of SUNY at Binghamton. Dr. Bonnie
Webber, the first keynote speaker, presented the first talk of the
conference Monday morning June 6th, entitled "Instructing Animated
Agents: Natural Language and Human Figure Animation". Her one hour
lecture and the computer graphics video in which figures emulating
realistically humans were able to successfully perform a number of human
motions and functions, were very well received by the participants. Dr.
Stuart Shapiro, presented his keynote speech, entitled "Formalizing
English", Tues- day morning, June 7th. His objective was to construct a
natural language using an intelli- gent agent. His talk was of great
interest and drew a great deal of discussion and questions by the
participants. "The Role of AI in Multimedia Information Systems", was
the topic presented by the third keynote speaker, Dr. N. Bourbakis,
Wednesday morning June 8th. He addressed the changes in computing with
the introduction of Multimedia and the usage of AI to store and retrieve
intelligently massive visual, audio, and other data.