[Colloq] Talk - Monday, October 20, 12:00 noon - **150 Dodge Hall**

[Rachel Bates]

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