Lectures on Machine Consciousness - Madrid - February 2011

From January 31st to February 4th, 2011, the Scalab research group from the Carlos III University of Madrid will hold the 4th International Seminar on New Issues in Artificial Intelligence. This edition of the AI postgraduate seminar series will include a keynote lecture on Machine Consciousness by Prof. Antonio Chella.

Antonio Chella was born in Florence on March 4, 1961. In 1988 he obtained his laurea degree cum laude in Electronic Engineering from the University of Palermo and in 1993 he obtained his PhD in Computer Engineering defending a thesis on neural networks for robot vision. From 1992 to 1998 he was a scientific researcher at the University of Palermo, where he became an associate professor in 1998 and a professor in robotics in 2001. He is the head of RoboticsLab. His main research interests concern machine consciousness and cognitive architectures for robotics.He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of machine Consciousness. He is a member of IEEE, AAAI, IAPR, AI*IA, AICA, SIREN.

The seminar lectures will cover, amongst others, an introduction to the field of Machine Consciousness, related work and related fields of scientific study, the emerging importance of Machine Consciousness for AI, current state of research, theoretical foundations, and experimental results.

An abstract of the lectures can be found here. The event will take place (free entrance) at UC3M Leganés Campus. Check the Seminar Program.

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Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics

Paladyn. Journal of Behavioral Robotics is a new journal launched by Versita (www.versita.com/pjbr), a science publisher in Central and Eastern Europe and distributed by Springer.

Paladyn is a peer-reviewed, electronic-only journal that publishes the original research results on topics broadly related to biologically and psychologically inspired robots and other behavior-based autonomous systems. The journal focuses especially on cognitive developmental robotics which emerges from developmental psychology, embodied cognition, autonomous mental development and social behavior.

The journal publishes research that covers such topics as: developmental robotics, cognitive robotics, evolutionary robotics, artificial embodied agents, self-organizing robot swarms, robot learning and adaptation, human-robot interaction and bio-inspired robot vision.

The first two issues of the PJBR are already online:
Vol.1 iss.1: www.springerlink.com/content/2080-9778/1/1/
Vol.1 iss.2: www.springerlink.com/content/2080-9778/1/2/

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Season's Greetings from XCR-1 robot

The XCR-1 Robot by Pentti Haikonen performs a candle search task to wish you a happy Xmas!

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Season's Greetings from XCR-1 robot

The XCR-1 Robot by Pentti Haikonen performs a "Christmas Present Task" to wish you a happy Xmas!

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Postdoctoral positions at Imperial College London in Bioinspired Social Learning Mechanisms for Human Robot Interaction

Two postdoctoral positions are immediately available at Imperial's Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, to work on bionspired social learning algorithms for  human-robot interaction. You will be working in a new EU FP7 STREP project, EFAA, to develop bioinspired algorithms for enabling humanoid robots to learn transferable sensorimotor and cognitive skills through multimodal interaction with human users in the context of tabletop games. Experience with modelling biological learning processes (particularly in the context of social cognitive neuroscience), for example using neural networks or bayesian models, and/or programming and control of complex humanoid robots (e.g. the icub) would be beneficial.

The positions offer an exciting research topic and an excellent working environment in one of the world's top research universities; the positions are for the project's duration of 3 years.

More information (and links to the application website) at:

http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/yiannis/webcontent/EFAAPostdoctoralPositions/Welcome.html

Deadline for receipt of applications is  the 16th of January 2011, but candidates are encouraged to apply as early as possible.

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MC2011

Machine Consciousness 2011: Self, Integration and Explanation
Call for Papers

Abstract submission deadline: December 31st, 2010.

Extended Abstract submission deadline: **January 9th, 2011** 

Submissions are invited for presentation at MC2011, a two-day symposium to be held in conjunction with Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour 2011 (AISB 2011), April 4-7 2011, University of York, UK.

Machine Consciousness (MC) concerns itself with the creation of artefacts which have, or model, mental characteristics typically associated with consciousness such as (self-) awareness, emotion, affect, phenomenal states, imagination, etc.

Specific Foci:
We encourage submissions falling under one of more of these topics:
        • MC and Self modelling
        • MC and Information integration
        • The explanatory power of MC models
        • MC and Neuroscience
        • MC and Functional versus phenomenal consciousness
        • MC Ethics

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