10 October 2010
Next EUCogII members' conference, on October 8th & 9th, in Palma de Mallorca.
29 January 2010
"Development of Cognition in Artificial Agents"
10 October 2009
"Challenges for cognitive systems"
6 October 2010
NeuroComp is an annual event in France, which brings together the computational neuroscience community and the experimental neuroscience community, favoring the advancement of artificial cognitive systems. The meeting will take place in Lyon this year. It will include a tutorial day where students will be able to learn about development of artificial cogntitive neural systems and comparison with neurophysiology data.
To be held in Lyon, France on 6th -- 8th October 2010.
24 September 2010
Neuronal dynamics provides a powerful theoretical language with which embodied and situated cognitive systems can be designed and modeled. This summer school will provides a hands-on and down-to-earth introduction to neuronal dynamics ideas and will enable participants to become productive within this framework.
To be held at the "Institut für Neuroinformatik", Ruhr-Universität, Bochum on 24th September -- 1st October 2010
1 September 2010
The workshop on Recognition and Action for Scene Understanding (REACTS2011) is an international event which will be hold in Malaga, September 2011. The aim of this workshop is meant to bring together researchers which address the problem of Scene Understanding from the perspective of the different involved research communities. Scene Understanding has become a popular topic in Computer Science which combines abilities such as perception, analysis and interpretation of both indoor and outdoor scenes. Hence, it involves joining efforts and sharing knowledge from different research areas such as Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Machine Intelligence, Software Engineering and Cognitive Sciences. Scene Understanding underlies many abilities such as visual search, visual exploration and attention guidance, 3D object classification or human behaviour description and recognition. However, many other abilities such as spatio-temporal processing or multi-sensor fusion can also rely on this topic.
To be held in Malaga, Spain on 1st -- 2nd September 2010.
31 March 2010
Two-day Symposium on AI-Inspired Biology (AIIB)
(Not Biologically Inspired AI -- BIAI !)
There are many ways in which research in AI/Robotics can be and has been inspired by biology. This includes the initial inspiration for AI in its earliest days. That is not the topic of this symposium! There also can be, and has been, inspiration in the reverse direction, which has not been so widely recognised.
The symposium is an opportunity for researchers on both sides of the natural/artificial cognition divide, including biologists studying animal cognition, to acknowledge and evaluate past examples of AI-inspired biology, to report on ongoing projects, and above all to identify opportunities for new ways in which advances in our understanding of natural/biological cognition can be or need to be inspired by concepts, problems, theories and techniques from AI/Robotics, including analysis of requirements for human-like or animal-like robots.
To be held at AISB'10 on the third and fourth days 31st March--1st April 2010
Such advances could include: inspiring new research on cognition in humans and other animals, helping us to understand what such cognition achieves, identifying the roles of relevant features of the environment, explaining how the competences evolved, or how they develop in individuals, and proposing new information-processing mechanisms or architectures, better able to explain types of natural cognition.
Progress so far includes constructing the symposium website and promoting the event through mailing lists, notices at CogSci09 and personal emails. To date, we have five invited speakers: Professors Margaret Boden, Nick Chater, Nicky Clayton, Antje Meyer, and Murray Shanahan. We will soon circulate the call for submissions.
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/aiib/
