Final Call for Participation: BICS'2004, Stirling, Scotland, UK

[Dr. Amir Hussain]

Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems (BICS-2004): Final Call for
Participation

University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
August 29 - September 1, 2004

Share the latest research, developments and ideas in the wide arena of
disciplines encompassed under the heading of BICS-2004, including:

First International ICSC Symposium on Cognitive Neuro Science (CNS)
Chair: Prof. Igor Aleksander, Imperial College London, U.K

Second International ICSC Symposium on Biologically Inspired Systems
(BIS)
Chair: Prof. Leslie Smith, University of Stirling, U.K.

Third International ICSC Symposium on Neural Computation (NC)
Chair: Dr. Amir Hussain, University of Stirling, U.K.

Conference Sponsors:
The Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE)
University of Stirling, Scotland, UK
Imperial College London, UK
ICSC Interdisciplinary Research, Canada

Workshop: Information coding in early sensory stages

Plenary Debate : Machine Consciousness: Does it Make Sense?

Tutorial :  Models of Consciousness: The world scene
Prof I Aleksander, Imperial College London

Tutorial: Implementing neural models in silicon
Prof L S Smith, University of Stirling, Scotland

Tutorial:  Neural Networks for Adaptive Speech Enhancement
Dr A. Hussain, University of Stirling, Scotland

Plenary Lecture : Fifteen years of Neuromorphic Engineering: progress,
problems, and prospects; Prof R. Douglas, ETH Zurich, Switzerland

Plenary Lecture: Self-Organisation in the Nervous System: the
Establishment of Nerve Connections by an Inductive Mechanism; Prof David
Willshaw, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Plenary Lecture: Computation, cognition, and control
Dr. O Holland, University of Essex, U.K.

Plenary Lecture: Neural Nets: the hype and the reality, from an
industrial perspective
Prof G Hesketh, Rolls-Royce, UK

Plenary Lecture:  Disentangling signals blindly from nonlinear mixtures
Prof E Oja, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland

Plenary Lecture: Attention and Consciousness as Control System
Components in the Brain
Prof John G Taylor, King's College, U.K

and contributed papers on:

Audition and Robotics (BIS)
Neural Modelling (BIS)
Neuromorphic Approaches (BIS)
Neuromorphic and spiking networks: BSS (BIS)
Novel approaches (BIS)
Vision (BIS)

Computational Neural Network Models (NC)
Neural Network Applications (NC)
Software and Hardware Implementations (NC)

Neurological Analysis (CNS)
Representation and Modelling (CNS)
Attention and Emotion (CNS)
Agent Consciousness (CNS)

Venue: beautiful campus University of Stirling, Scotland, with an
excellent centre to visit Scotland from. BICS2004 is being held in
Stirling, a historic city located in the heart of Scotland. The
conference venue and accommodation are all on the University campus,
which is convenient for visiting the ancient castle and Wallace
monument, or for going further a field and exploring the beautiful
countryside.

For the full programme:
HYPERLINK
"http://www.icsc-naiso.org/conferences/bics2004/bics-cfp.html"http://www
icsc-naiso.org/conferences/bics2004/bics-cfp.html

Registration on page:
HYPERLINK
"http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~lss/BICS2004/registration1.html"http://www.cs
stir.ac.uk/~lss/BICS2004/registration1.html

NOTE:
Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version
of their paper for publication in a special issue of the Neurocomputing
Journal, published by Elsevier Science B.V.  (HYPERLINK
"http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neucom"http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neuc
om)


-
Dr. Amir Hussain
Senior Lecturer in Computing Science
University of Stirling
Stirling FK9 4LA, UK
Email: HYPERLINK "mailto:ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk"ahu at cs.stir.ac.uk
HYPERLINK "http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~ahu"http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~ahu
Tel/Fax: (+44) 01786 - 467437 / 464551
--
The University of Stirling is a university established in Scotland by
charter at Stirling, FK9 4LA. Privileged/Confidential Information may be
contained in this message. If you are not the addressee indicated in
this message (or responsible for delivery of the message to such
person), you may not disclose, copy or deliver this message to anyone
and any action taken or omitted to be taken in reliance on it, is
prohibited and may be unlawful. In such case, you should destroy this
message and kindly notify the sender by reply email. Please advise
immediately if you or your employer do not consent to Internet email for
messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions and other information in
this message that do not relate to the official business of the
University of Stirling shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed
by it.