2012 The Alan Turing Year

A Centenary Celebration of the Life and Work of Alan Turing

June 23, 2012, is the Centenary of Alan Turing’s birth in London. During his relatively brief life, Turing made a unique impact on the history of computing, computer science, artificial intelligence, developmental biology, and the mathematical theory of computability. See http://www.turingcentenary.eu/ for more details and related events around the world.

A remarkable example is the AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012, where several symposia related with Turing will be held.

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BICA 2012
http://bicasociety.org/2012/
 Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA), Third Annual Meeting of the BICA Society
Palermo, Italy, October 31st  - November 3rd

Sponsored by:
BICA Society 
University of Palermo

CALL FOR PAPERS

The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind, known as the BICA Challenge, calls for our joint efforts to develop biologically-inspired intelligent agents that can be accepted and trusted by the human society in various roles, on an equal footing with human agents. The main objective of BICA 2012 is to take a significant step forward towards the BICA Challenge.

The topics of BICA 2012 will include (but not be limited to):
- models capable of inducing the sense of presence in artifacts;
- the “critical mass” of a human-level learner;
- emotional competence and social intelligence in artifacts;
- machine consciousness and BICA;
- models of perception, cognition and action;
- robust and scalable learning mechanisms;
- realistic neural networks for BICA;
- human-like episodic and semantic memory;
- metacognition in BICA;
- self-regulated, bootstrapped and meta-learning;
- language acquisition and symbol grounding;
- non-von-Neumann computational systems for BICA;
- a roadmap to the BICA Challenge.

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