It is the intent of the speaker that this seminar talk should serve two purposes. It is intended to be an informal guided tour of the ill-defined area of activity known as 'Computational Intelligence' and it is also intended to be a brief exposition of the type of research currently in progress in the speaker's research group. Three research task areas will be discussed. One is concerned with learning modulated reflex response in the design and implementation of intelligent systems. Another task is in the area of data mining. Combined supervised and self-organization methods are used effectively to learn organized memories of large volumes of materials behavior and to infer estimates of properties of new materials. Work on 'generalized inverse systems' methodology is in planning stage.

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Yoh-Han Pao is the Emeritus George S. Dively Distinguished Professor at Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, with appointments in Electrical Engineering and in Computer Science. In his career he has served as the Chairman of Case Western's Electrical Engineering Department(1969-1977); as the Director of the Division of Electrical, Computer, and Systems Engineering of the National Science Foundation (1978-1980); and as founding Director of the Center for Automation and Intelligent Systems Research (1984-1989) at Case Western Reserve.. He has served as NATO Senior Science Fellow (1972-1973) and as visiting Professor at MIT's AI Laboratory, Cambridge, MA (1980). He has carried out research and lectured at Edinburgh University, the Turing Institute, Tsinghua University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and other institutions. His industrial career include a total of fourteen years at the duPont Company and at Bell Laboratories. His research interests are adaptive pattern recognition, neural networks, computational intelligence, and signal and image processing .He is the Founding Editor of the Academic Press Quantum Electronics Series and is the author of many technical publications including the Addison-Wesley book on Adaptive Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks (1989). He is a Fellow of IEEE and of the Optical Society of America. He is on the Editorial board of several major technical journals. He is also co-founder and past President of AI WARE, Inc., a software systems company, currently a Division of Computer Associates International.