Latest content from www.Conscious-Robots.com! http://www.conscious-robots.com?lang= Fri, 24 May 2013 08:25:11 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.conscious-robots.com/images/favicon.ico http://www.conscious-robots.com Latest content from www.Conscious-Robots.com! http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/first-international-workshop-on-artificial-consciousness.html.html First International Workshop onArtificial ConsciousnessTaormina, Italy, September 2-6, 2013 at ECAL 2013 About this Workshop The workshop is devoted to the issue of artificial consciousness. In biological organisms, consciousness is considered to be the starting point for personal human understanding of the world and consequent intelligent behaviour. Therefore, if one is interested in cognitive architectures which would be biologically inspired, then modeling of consciousness becomes an important computational research topic for the construction of architectures that are strive to... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Wed, 03 Apr 2013 08:04:20 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/jobs/post-doctoral-scholarships-in-cognitive-robotics-university-of-aveiro.html.html ===========================================================POST-DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIPSTransverse Activity on Intelligent RoboticsUniversity of Aveiro, Portugal===========================================================Apply by 2013/02/25 Through previous projects, the Transverse Activity on Intelligent Robotics of the University of Aveiro (ATRI/UA) has been working on the integration of reactivity, deliberation, learning and interactivity for intelligent robots. In the framework of RACE ("Robustness by Autonomous Competence Enhancement"), an ongoing project funded by EU FP7, UA is currently... Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Job Vacancies, Research Positions, Work Opportunities Sun, 10 Feb 2013 07:31:30 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/agi-artificial-general-intelligence-2013.html.html AGI 2013 - Artificial General Intelligence 2013 - Beijing, July 31 - Aug 3 2013: Call for PapersIt is our great pleasure to remind you about the Sixth Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, which will be held in Beijing, China, this upcoming summer. The deadline for paper submission is coming up fairly soon -- March 1. Details about the conference follow.* Date and Website *July 31, 2013 – August 3, 2013, Beijing, China Conference Website: http://www.agi-conf.org/ (http://www.agi-conf.org/)) is the premier international forum for cutting-edge research focusing on the original goal o... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Wed, 23 Jan 2013 04:29:03 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/reviews/consciousness-books-reviews/coyote.-a-tale-of-unexpected-consequences.html.html Coyote. A Tale of Unexpected Consequences. An intelligent robot coyote longs to be free… Elisabeth Rhett WoodsEkstasis Editions, Sep. 2011. This book at Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/Coyote-Consequences-Elizabeth-Rhett-Woods/dp/1897430752) . This science fiction novel is not about consciousness, but one of the most remarkable problems intimately related with it: free will. Written by the poet and writer Elisabeth Rhett Woods, the book uses a close and non technical language, flavored with some poetry, appealing to anyone interested in the subjects of AI and free will. No special knowledge is... Raul Arrabales Reviews - Consciousness Books Reviews Sun, 13 Jan 2013 14:24:19 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/jobs/three-postdoctoral-research-fellowships-in-intelligent-mobile-robotics.html.html We are looking for up to three Postdoctoral Research Fellows to work on a new FP7-funded project STRANDS "Spatio-Temporal Representations and Activities for Cognitive Control in Long-Term Scenarios". STRANDS will develop new technologies to allow mobile robots to acquire and use semantic maps of indoor spaces that capture not just spatial information (walls, doors etc.), but also the spatio-temporal structure of the dynamics which change such spaces (e.g. human activities with objects). To do this, these robots must be able learn and operate reliably in long-term deployments (from weeks to mon... Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Job Vacancies, Research Positions, Work Opportunities Wed, 09 Jan 2013 12:16:34 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/cfp-brain-inspired-cognitive-systems-2013.html.html Paper submissions and special session proposals are invited to the International Conference on Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (http://sentic.net/bics (http://sentic.net/bics) ) to be held in Beijing next June.TIMEFRAME• February 1st, 2013: Due date for special session proposals • February 1st, 2013: Due date for conference papers • March 5th, 2013: Notification of paper acceptance to authors • March 20th, 2012: Camera-ready deadline for accepted papers • June 9-11th, 2013: Conference datesPAPER SUBMISSIONPapers submitted to BICS 2013 must be single-spaced in one column format within an are... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Wed, 26 Dec 2012 04:59:10 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/cfp-enaction-challenges-and-successes-aisb13.html.html CALL FOR PAPERS: Enaction: Challenges and SuccessesWe are pleased to announce the AISB symposium "Enaction: Challenges and Successes" to take place during the AISB Annual Convention 2013, Univ. Exeter, UK, April 2-5th, 2013.http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/computer-science/research/aisb/ (http://emps.exeter.ac.uk/computer-science/research/aisb/) Enaction represents one alternative to "good old-fashion cognitive science", in the form of a change of focus for models of cognition: from computation to interaction, from the brain-in-a-vat to the embodied brain in the world. This extension, dubbed enactive ... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Wed, 26 Dec 2012 04:54:50 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/jobs/phd-position-in-artificial-intelligence-and-robotics.html.html ====================================================================== ***** One PhD Position on Planning Human-Aware Robot Behavior ***** Center for Applied Autonomous Sensor Systems (AASS) Örebro University, Sweden ======================================================================----------------------------------------------------------------------In Short----------------------------------------------------------------------Applications are invited for a three year PhD student position in Computer Science at Örebro University, Sweden. The research area is arti... Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Job Vacancies, Research Positions, Work Opportunities Wed, 26 Dec 2012 04:49:46 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/jobs/two-fully-funded-phd-positions-in-intelligent-mobile-robotics.html.html We are looking for two PhD students to work on topics connected with the new FP7-funded project STRANDS ”Spatio-Temporal Representations and Activities for Cognitive Control in Long-Term Scenarios”. STRANDS will develop new technologies to allow mobile robots to acquire and use semantic maps of indoor spaces that capture not just spatial information (walls, doors etc.), but also the spatio-temporal structure of the dynamics which change such spaces (e.g. human activities with objects). To do this, these robots must be able learn and operate reliably in long-term deployments (from weeks to mont... Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Job Vacancies, Research Positions, Work Opportunities Wed, 26 Dec 2012 04:47:35 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/general-intelligence-in-embodied-agents.html.html conference session on General Intelligence in Embodied Agents, as part of an IEEE Symposium on Human-Level AIWHEN/WHERE : 15 Mon -19 Fri April 2013, SingaporePAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: December 12 (12-12-12, midnight GMT), no further extensionsPlease join us in Singapore April 2013 for presentations and discussions on general intelligence, embodiment and human-level AI!http://wp.goertzel.org/?page_id=457 (http://wp.goertzel.org/?page_id=457) This Special Session on General Intelligence in Embodied Agents is part of the IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Human-like Intelligence, w... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Wed, 28 Nov 2012 05:21:17 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/conferences/ii-retecog-workshop-on-interaction-2013.html.html II Workshop ReteCog on Interaction 201317-18th January, 2013Zaragoza, Spainhttp://retecog2013.unizar.es (http://retecog2013.unizar.es) ScopeIn the aftermath of Turing's anniversary, who famously proposed an interactive test of intelligence, the Spanish Network of Research in Cognitive Science –ReteCog- has chosen “INTERACTION” as the topic of its second meeting. The thematic network ReteCog is inspired by the “European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems” (EuCognition). With the support of the Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Spanish Government, ReteCog aims to... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Conferences Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:07:50 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/interviews-and-lectures/searle-on-the-mind-body-problem.html.html Searle on the Mind-Body Problem The following video is a short excerpt from an interview to John Searle about his book Intentionality and Minds, Brains and Science. Will computers ever achieve consciousness? John Searle, Ph.D., is a professor of philosophy and cognitive science at U.C. Berkeley and author of Intentionality and Minds, Brains and Science. He challenges the notion that the human mind operates like a computer, pointing out that intentionality and other human faculties are not achievable through artificial intelligence. 0XTDLq34M18 Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Interviews and Lectures Wed, 18 Jul 2012 07:32:35 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/books/aristotles-laptop.html.html Vol. 1 of the World Scientific Series on Machine Consciousness ARISTOTLE'S LAPTOPThe Discovery of our Informational Mindby Igor Aleksander (Imperial College London, UK) Helen Morton (Imperial College London, UK) Aristotle's convincing philosophy is likely to have shaped (even indirectly) many of our current beliefs, prejudices and attitudes to life. This includes the way in which our mind (that is, our capacity to have private thoughts) appears to elude a scientific description. This book is about a scientific ingredient that was not available to Aristotle: the science of information. W... Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Books on Consciousness or Artificial Consciousness Thu, 05 Jul 2012 06:43:49 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/jobs/phd-position-in-visual-object-categorization.html.html PhD position in visual object categorizationThe Idiap Research Institute seeks qualified candidates for one PhD research position on computer vision and machine learning applied to robotics. The PhD will focus on how to provide robots with categorisation models based on situated visual information and their associated affordances. The resulting algorithms should be able to learn continuously over time about new perceptual and semantic inputs, as well as new category models by exploiting existing priors. The research will be conducted within the context of a recently funded Swiss project includ... Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Job Vacancies, Research Positions, Work Opportunities Fri, 29 Jun 2012 05:33:29 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/jobs/cognition-institute-postdoctoral-research-fellow-in-psychology.html.html Cognition Institute Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychology Plymouth University - Faculty of Science and Technology, School of Psychology Ref A2568 Salary £31020 to £35938 pa - Grade 7 The School of Psychology at Plymouth University is seeking to appoint two Postdoctoral Fellows, starting 1 October 2012 (or as soon as possible thereafter). You will be part of a large, vibrant, highly collaborative, and interdisciplinary research community. In the 2008 34.5 members of staff from the School were submitted to the RAE, making Plymouth the 12th largest research School of Psychology in the U... Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Job Vacancies, Research Positions, Work Opportunities Mon, 25 Jun 2012 06:20:46 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/jobs/phd-studentships-on-emotion-in-embodied-cognition-and-action-in-autonomous-robots.html.html PhD Studentships on Emotion in Embodied Cognition and Action in Autonomous Robots Science and Technology Research InstituteUniversity of Hertfordshire Applications are invited from candidates with good first or Master degrees in cognitive science, computer science, electronic engineering, biology or other relevant disciplines, to work as research (PhD) students under the supervision of Lola Cañamero (L -dot- Canamero -a-t- herts.ac.uk (mailto:L.Canamero@herts.ac.uk); http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqlc (http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqlc)) for a three-year period. Research would... Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Job Vacancies, Research Positions, Work Opportunities Tue, 19 Jun 2012 06:02:55 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/publications/books/consciousness-and-robot-sentience.html.html World ScientificSeries on Machine Consciousness - Vol. 2 CONSCIOUSNESS AND ROBOT SENTIENCEby Pentti O.A. Haikonen Available now for pre-order at World Scientific (http://www.worldscibooks.com/compsci/8486.html) and Amazon (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Consciousness-Sentience-Pentti-Antero-Haikonen/dp/9814407151/ref=sr_1_1?s=books i=UTF8 qid=1336470113 sr=1-1). Raul Arrabales Publications and Conferences - Books on Consciousness or Artificial Consciousness Mon, 18 Jun 2012 09:36:47 +0100 http://www.conscious-robots.com/en/researchers-and-associations/jobs/phd-position-in-the-area-of-human-computer-interaction-university-of-t-bingen.html.html PhD position in the area of Human-Computer Interaction, University of Tübingen The Department of Computer Science, research group Media Informatics/ Human-Computer Interaction offers a position as Doctoral Researcher (full time, salary level E13 TV-L) for the duration of 2 years with the possibility of extension to 4 years.Part-time employment is generally possible, unless forcing official concerns conflict. The position is to be filled at the earliest possible date. Your duties comprise research and teaching in the research group Human-Computer Interaction. The research topic of the PhD w... Raul Arrabales Researchers and Associations - Job Vacancies, Research Positions, Work Opportunities Mon, 18 Jun 2012 07:43:24 +0100