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Scientists’ meet discusses aspects related to soft computing

Auspicious start: Traditional lamp being lit to mark the inaugural of the four-day Meet on Soft Computing Skills at Yercaud on Tuesday.

YERCAUD: A four-day all-India scientists’ meet on Soft Computing Skills began here on Tuesday.

Participants in the meet, organised by the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), took up various aspects related to soft computing, a consortium of methodologies that work synergistically and provides in one form or another flexible information processing capability at low cost for handling real life ambiguous situations, for discussion. Institute Director Sankar K. Pal inaugurated the meet.

Speakers said that image processing and pattern recognition were some of the applications of soft computing. The participants also discussed artificial intelligence and the way a human brain works. The human brain learns from experience, generalise from previous examples to new ones, and also abstract essential characteristics from the input containing irrelevant data, speakers said.

They said that some measurable characteristics of intelligence that could be recognised through a computer system included responding to situations flexibly, to make sense out of ambiguity in contradictory messages, to recognise the relative importance of different elements of situation, to find similarity between situations despite the differences which might separate them and to draw distinction between situations despite similarities, which might link them.

Prof. Anup Majumdar from ISI explained the objective of the programme. Shevaroys Group Chairman R. Devadoss, SRC Group Chairman M. Paramasivam, and Prof. A. Rajagopal of ISI, Coimbatore, spoke. Statistical scientists from various parts of the country are attending the programme.

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