Toward a science of consciouness
published on February 22, 2010
Toward a Science of Consciouness
Date: April 13-17, 2010
Place: Tucson Convention Centre, Arizona
For further details, click HERE.
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56th NIBB Conference, Japan
published on February 22, 2010
Neocortical Organization
Date: March 12-14th, 2010
Place: Okazaki Conference Centre
Registration deadline : Sunday 28 February
For further details, click HERE.
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BCBT Barcelona 2009
published on September 1, 2009
The Barcelona Cognition, Brain and Technology summer school - BCBT to be held from Sept 8 to 22, 2008. A number of Lab members from the Dominey team and the Kennedy team will be attending.
The program committee of BCBT (Tony Prescott - Univ. Sheffield, Anil Seth – Univ. Sussex, Tom Ziemke - University of Skövde, Paul Verschure – Univ. Pompeu Fabra) has defined the following single track sessions:
1: Hybrid brain-like systems: Interfacing man made and natural systems: How do we interface natural & artificial systems. Here we will deal with issues in the area of physiology, nano-technology, bio-nano interfaces, neuronal and artificial substrates, brain-computer interfaces, bio-sensors, etc.
2: The replication, simulation, validation and emulation of biological systems: Implementation oriented electrical engineering of neuronal systems, simulation techniques and platforms, scaling problems, integration issues, robotics etc.
3: Principles and technology of biologically based cognitive architectures: system level proposals on how different elements and sub-systems should hang together to create a functioning whole, what are the design primitives we are dealing with? Cognition should be taken in the broadest possible sense.
4: Learning, development and adaptation. From both a theoretical and a biological perspective.
5: System level explanations of brain function. In all cases we want to base our technologies and models on biology (this is a stronger position than one based on “inspiration”). Hence, getting some solid systems neuroscience would be good.
6: Consciousness: mechanisms and functions (Supported by a COST network).
7: How to define a coordination action for the Cognitive systems / BIO-ICT convergence initiatives. This is specifically focused on the Coordinators & PIs with the goal to have a clear plan, hopefully already partially written, by the end of the workshop.
http://iua.upf.edu/bcncs/
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PIRSTEC
published on September 1, 2009
Prospective Interdisciplinaire en Réseau pour les Sciences et les Technologies Cognitives.
Peter F. Dominey will be taking part in the Pirstec workshop held in Paris. These multidisciplinary reflection groups focus on common themes. The title of the workshop is Manuscript, Linguistics and Cognition.
http://pirstec.risc.cnrs.fr/
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ICT Conference
published on September 2, 2008
The ICT Event (formerly called the "IST Event") is an important forum for discussing research and public policy in information and communication technologies at European level. The Event brings together researchers and innovators, policy and business decision-makers working in the field of digital technologies. The ICT Event:
* Presents Europe's future priorities for research funding in the ICT area
* Examines crucial issues of public policy for stimulating innovation through ICT development and uptake
* Creates opportunities to establish research and business partnerships and simply keep up to date in what is happening in various ICT research fields.
The ICT Event is organised by the European Commission's Directorate General for the Information Society and Media and is usually hosted by the current Presidency of the European Union.
You can find here the link to a networking session concerning the iCub project.
http://eris.liralab.it/wiki/Report_Networking_Session
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