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  • 2-Day symposium on AI-Inspired Biology (AIIB) at AISB'2010

    Dear All

    Please find details below of a symposium that you may find interesting

    All best

    Susannah Thorpe



    CALLING:
    Biologists, psychologists, linguists, philosophers, neuroscientists, roboticists, AI-researchers...

    CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS:

    Paper and poster submissions are invited for a Two-day Symposium on

    AI-Inspired Biology (AIIB)
    (Not Biologically Inspired AI -- BIAI!)
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/aiib/
    31st March--1st April 2010

    Sponsored by EUCogII (http://www.eucognition.org/ )

    to be held at the AISB 2010 Convention along with 13 other symposia on 29th March - 1st April 2010 at De Montfort University, Leicester,
    UK
    http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb10/AISB2010.html

    The AIIB symposium will mainly be concerned with:

    Past, ongoing and especially future influences FROM AI/robotics TO the study of natural cognition.
    This can include using relevance to natural cognition, as a test for generality and power of theories of artificial
    cognition.

    CONFIRMED SPEAKERS

    Prof Kim Bard, Portsmouth University
    Prof Margaret Boden, Sussex University
    (will lead the closing discussion on "The way forward")
    Prof Nicky Clayton, Cambridge University
    Prof Nick Chater, University College London
    Prof Antje Meyer, University of Birmingham
    Prof Murray Shanahan, Imperial College London

    For more details see the AIIB web site (above) or write to

    THE ORGANISERS:

    Biosciences
    Jackie Chappell (Biology) j.m.chappell@bham.ac.uk
    [Symposium Chair]
    Susannah Thorpe (Biology) s.k.thorpe@bham.ac.uk
    School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham

    AI/Robotics/Philosophy
    Nick Hawes (AI/Robotics) N.A.Hawes@cs.bham.ac.uk
    Aaron Sloman (Philosophy/AI/Robotics) A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk
    School of Computer Science, University of Birmingham

    More details regarding the symposium, including confirmed speakers,
    priorities for paper selection, submission categories,
    provisional style files and deadlines available here:
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/aiib/

    2 page poster summaries and 6-8 page full papers are invited.
    See the web site for details.

    The web site will be retained after the symposium as a record of the
    meeting, with papers and presentations available online.

    The submission deadline will probably be mid December.
    Please look at the web site late November.

    At least one author of every accepted paper will be expected to
    attend the symposium.

    ===
    Jackie Chappell , (Symposium Chair)
    Susannah Thorpe ,
    Nick Hawes ,
    Aaron Sloman


    Dr Susannah KS Thorpe
    Locomotor Ecology and Biomechanics Lab

    School of Biosciences
    University of Birmingham
    Birmingham B15 2TT

    Tel: +44 (0)121 414 5040
    Email: S.K.Thorpe@bham.ac.uk
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