NIPS International Workshop for Scientific Study of Consciousness
The NIPS international workshop for Scientific Study of Consciousness (NIPS-SSC) will be held at the Okazaki Conference Center (Aichi, Japan) in Sep 19-20, 2009. This workshop is an official satellite event for the 32nd international neuroscience conference "Neuroscience 2009" (Nagoya. Sep 16-18, 2009).
No MRDS Simulation Competition at RoboCup 2009
Although Microsoft is still supporting RoboCup as sponsor, partnership with RoboCup has been relocated from Robotics Developer Studio team to Microsoft Research – Human-Robot Interaction.
Mind that Abides. Panpsychism in the new millennium
Edited by David Skrbina. University of Michigan at Dearborn Advances in Consciousness Research, 75 Benjamins Publishing Company. 2009. xiv, 401 pp. John.
Axel Cleeremans
Research Directors with the NFSR. Member of the Royal Academy of Belgium.
His research interests include Consciousness, Computational Models of Cognition, Implicit Learning, and Cognitive Science.
ASSC XIII
The thirteenth annual meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness (ASSC) will be held from 5 till 8 June 2009 at the Berlin School of Mind and Brain and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Review Robot Brains: Circuits and Systems for Conscious Machines
By Pentty Haikonen Wiley. September 2007. ISBN: 978-0-470-06204-3.
Inspired by the Strong Artificial Intelligence school, the same that captivated audiences in movies like ‘The Matrix’ or ‘2001 Space Odyssey’, this engineer by profession, multidisciplinary scientist by passion, believes the ultimate goal of Machine Consciousness research is to understand human nature. He pursues, as only a few do, the dream of creating self-conscious robots, as he asserts the best way to prove that something is understood is by recreating it.
Arrabales believes the real advancement of this field will come thanks to the synergy between mind research and technological disciplines. He knows he will live to see important qualitative changes and advocates the application of cognitive models from psychology or neurology to computational architectures.
This young scientist works in a controversial but fascinating field, where everyday research can be turned into fantasy, raising questions about free will and determinism in both humans and their creations.
AMJ: From what I understood reading you blog, you believe in the creation of artificial consciousness, don’t you?
RA: Yes, I believe so. However, it is not clear to me when and to what degree we will achieve this goal. Actually, one of the most important research lines I am currently working on is focused on the measure of the degree of artificial consciousness. There is no consensus about how to address this challenge. In fact, we don’t have a clear answer about the degree of consciousness of a coma patient. The definition of the term consciousness is a problem itself.
MC-Papers or Machine Consciousness Bibliography is an online database containing indexed references and abstracts for a selected literature in Machine Consciousness. Database records include links to the pdf or html versions of the papers when available (please note some of the links may require registration or checking of your local institution's entitlement to access the full papers).
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2nd International Seminar on New Issues in Artificial Intelligence
February 2 - 6, 2009 Carlos III University of Madrid Colmenarejo Campus Avda. Universidad Carlos III, 22 28270 Colmenarejo (Madrid) SPAIN
Organized by ScALAB (CAOS, EVANNAI, GIAA, PLG) Artificial Intelligence Lab at UC3M.
Invited Speakers
Dr. Xin Yao. University of Birmingham. Evolving Ensemble of Artificial Neural Networks. Co-Evolution, Games and Social Behaviors. Evolutionary Global Optimisation and Constraint Handling.
Dr. Carlos Coello. CINVESTAV-IPN in Mexico. Recent Results and Open Problems in Evolutionary Multiobjective Optimization.
Dr. Tarunraj Singh.University at Buffalo, The State University of New York. An overview of advanced estimation algorithms
Dr. Subrata Das. Xerox European Research Centre. High-Level Information Fusion.
Dr. Michael Buro. University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. Constructing High-Performance AI Systems for Games.
Dr. Malte Helmert. University of Freiburg. Planning as heuristic search.
Dr. Silvano Cincotti. University of Genoa. Agent-based Computational Economics.
Dr. Marco Dorigo. Université Libre de Bruxelles. Bio-inspired Computing: Swarm Intelligence, Ant Colony Optimization and Swarm Robotics.
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