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Where Do HPC and Cognitive Science Meet in Latin America?

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High Performance Computing (CARLA 2018)

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Abstract

In the last few decades there has been a noticeable shift of attention of the high-performance computing (HPC) applications development community from deterministic to heuristic models of problem solving, mainly due to observation that models based on human knowledge and expertise have proven to be good approaches to solving complex problems. Also, a shift of artificial intelligence (AI) to HPC has occurred, as AI researchers now find in HPC the means to build more complex models of human cognition. This is in general the case, and it is also true in the Latin America region. On the other hand, in this region there seems to be an estrangement between the cognitive science (CS) and the AI communities, perhaps due to the shift of AI to HPC and the resulting change of attention of AI researchers. However, there is a noticeable increase in the number of academic programs in the region focusing on CS. In this article we provide evidence of the previous assertions and propose a list of suggestions or recommendations on how to bring the HPC and CogSci communities closer in the region, as well as the potential benefits of such a process.

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Notes

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    The course plan of the M.Sc. program can be looked at (in Spanish) in http://cienciascognoscitivas.sep.ucr.ac.cr/.

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    DFKI, for its German title: Deutsche Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz.

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    Here we define the term plausible to refer to an object or mechanism that complies with a set of experimental observations interpreted by a human expert.

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    For its Spanish title, Servicios de Computación Avanzada de América Latina y el Caribe, Advanced Computing Services for Latin America and the Caribbean.

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    For its Spanish title, Red Iberoamericana de Computación de Altas Prestaciones, Iberoamerican Network for High Performance Computing.

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  1. Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Centro Nacional de Alta Tecnología , Pavas, Costa Rica

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  3. Universidad Industrial de Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia

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  4. Universidad de Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia

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de la Ossa Osegueda, A. (2019). Where Do HPC and Cognitive Science Meet in Latin America?. In: Meneses, E., Castro, H., Barrios Hernández, C., Ramos-Pollan, R. (eds) High Performance Computing. CARLA 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 979. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16205-4_4

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