[Colloq] Talk, **Monday Oct 20, 12:00 noon, 150DG**

[David H. Lorenz]

         COLLEGE OF COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE COLLOQUIUM


          Techniques and Technology to Support Criminal Justice:
                    The work of the Joseph Bell Centre

                              John Kingston
                       The University of Edinburgh

                     Monday, October 20, 12:00 noon
                           : 150 Dodge Hall


The Joseph Bell Centre for Forensic Statistics and Legal
Reasoning is an interdisciplinary centre between three
disciplines -- mathematics, law and artificial intelligence --
and three institutions (the University of Edinburgh, Glasgow
Caledonian University and Lothian & Borders Police Forensic
Science Laboratory). The goal of the Centre's work is on
techniques and technology to support the criminal justice
system, with a focus on evaluation of evidence.

This talk will describe the Centre's work in four areas:
applications of forensic statistics; a rule-based decision
support system for assessing eyewitness reliability; model-based
reasoning about crime scenes; and building an ontology of
financial fraud.

John Kingston is the Director of the Joseph Bell Centre
for Forensic Statistics and Legal Reasoning, based at the
University of Edinburgh.  For 15 years prior to that, he
was a Senior Informatics Research Fellow in the Artificial
Intelligence Applications Institute (AIAI) at the University
of Edinburgh, where he was involved in AI work with various
companies and organizations, ranging from the UK Health and
Safety Executive to the US Air Force and from Unilever to the
University of Edinburgh. John's research interests include
techniques for capturing knowledge and modelling knowledge,
methods for distributing knowledge (particularly intelligent
Internet-based software), and the development of real-world
applications which verify and exemplify the aforementioned
techniques.

Host:Carole Hafner