The Cognitive Science Society is a cross-disciplinar association of researchers with a common goal: understanding human mind. Typical disciplines include Artificial Intelligence, Neuroscience, and Philosophy.

More information at: http://cognitivesciencesociety.org/

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TSC 2011: The 18th Toward a Science of Consciousness Conference
Brain, Mind and Reality
May 2-8, 2011
Stockholm University

Toward a Science of Consciousness is an interdisciplinary conference emphasizing broad and rigorous approaches to the study of conscious awareness. Topical areas include neuroscience, philosophy, psychology, biology, quantum physics, meditation and altered states, machine consciousness, culture and experiential phenomenology. Held annually since 1994, the conference is organized by the Center for Consciousness Studies at the University of Arizona, and alternates yearly between Tucson, Arizona and various locations around the world. Toward a Science of Consciousness 2011 will be held at Stockholm University, Aula Magna Hall, Stockholm, Sweden, May 2-8, 2011.

See the Call for Abstracts.

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The Fourth Issue (Vol. 2 No. 2. December 2010) of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness is now online

This is a special issue devoted to BICA (Brain Inspired Cognitive Architectures) and MC (Machine Consciousness) with selected papers from BICA 2008, BICA 2009, and BICA 2010 (Guest Editor: Alexei V. Samsonovich). See http://bicasymposium.com/.

As usual, these papers have been indexed in the MC Papers database. See below the table of contents.

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Conscious-Robots team is the 2K BotPrize 2010 Competition Winner!!!

The third edition of the 2K BotPrize Competition was decided recently in Copenhagen, at the 2010 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence and Games. We are happy to announce that the Spanish team – Conscious-Robots – formed by Jorge Muñoz and Raúl Arrabales won this year edition of this competition, a Turing Test adapted to the domain of videogames [1].

Raúl Arrabales (left) and Jorge Muñoz (right) with the 2K BotPrize trophy (by Peter Reynolds)

The aim of the 2K BotPrize competition is to develop a computer game bot which is undistinguishable from a human player, i.e. able to pass the Turing Test. Although the Conscious-Robots bot could not completely pass the Turing Test, she achieved a humanness rating of 31.8%. As of today, the Turing Test level intelligence has never been achieved by a machine. However, this year the gap between humans and bots was reduced, having a small difference between the Conscious-Robots bot (31.8%) and the least “human” human player (35.4%) – see results. -> READ MORE.

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Now the three invited papers by Aaron Sloman that were recently published in the third issue of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness (IJMC) are freely available:
 

Vol. 2 No. 1 (June 2010) pp. 1-18
AN ALTERNATIVE TO WORKING ON MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS
AARON SLOMAN
DOI: 10.1142/S1793843010000400

Vol. 2 No. 1 (June 2010) pp. 75-116
MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS: RESPONSE TO COMMENTARIES
AARON SLOMAN
DOI: 10.1142/S1793843010000412

Vol. 2 No. 1 (June 2010) pp. 117-169
PHENOMENAL AND ACCESS CONSCIOUSNESS AND THE "HARD" PROBLEM: A VIEW FROM THE DESIGNER STANCE
AARON SLOMAN
DOI: 10.1142/S1793843010000424

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Gostai releases an Open Source Edition of URBI (Urbi 2.1 - Open Source AGPL v3)

URBI is a software development platform for robotics that supports asynchronous event management and orchestration. URBI also provides software components and interfaces to many robots like Lego NXT and Aldebaran Nao.

Recently, Gostai have decided to go Open Source and release a new version of URBI under a licence AGPL v3 (they also maintain a commercial licence for commercial partners). Source code is available for the URBI Kernel, however the code of the Gostai Studio graphical interface is not included in the open source initiative.

More details can be found at: Gostai.com.

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