ICDL 2004 Call For Papers

[Andrea Chiba]

ICDL 2004 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: May 5 2004.

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING: DEVELOPING 
SOCIAL BRAINS

The Salk Institute
October 20-22, 2004
San Diego, California
http://icdl.cc

The goal of the conference is to bring together leading researchers in 
neuroscience, machine learning, robotics, and developmental psychology, in 
order to gain new insights about learning and development in natural 
organisms and robots. The scope of developmental processes to be 
considered is broad, including cognitive, social, emotional, and many 
other skills exhibited by humans, and other animals. The theme of the 
conference this year will be "Developing Social Brains", but other topics 
related to development and learning are welcome.

PAPER SUBMISSION
Submission deadline is May 5 2004. Papers for the meeting can be submitted 
ONLY through the conference's web site at:
http://icdl.cc. Papers can be submitted either as a 200 word summary or as 
a full paper (max 8 typeset pages).


SPECIAL ISSUE ON NEUROCOMPUTING
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.
(http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neucom)

INVITED TALKS (To be confirmed)
Jeff Elman
John Allman
Eric Courchesne
Terrence Sejnowski
Joan Stiles
James L. McClelland
John Watson
Dana Ballard
Pietro Perona
Rodney Brooks

REVIEW PROCESS
All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Papers 
will be judged and accepted for the meeting based on the clarity with 
which the work is described and the relevance to the goals of the 
conference. All accepted papers not selected for oral talks as well as 
papers explicitly submitted as poster presentations will be included in 
one of three evening poster sessions. Authors will be notified of the 
presentation format of their papers by the beginning of July.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
General Chair: Javier R. Movellan:
Co-Chairs: Andrea Chiba, Gedeon Deak, Jochen Triesch.
Program Chair: Jochen Triesch.
Program Co-Chairs: Marian Stewart-Bartlett, Gwen Ford Littlewort.
Publications Chair: Gedeon Deak.

ADVISORY BOARD:
Jeff Elman
James L. McClelland
Sandy Pentland
Terrence Sejnowski
Mriganka Sur
Esther Thelen
Juyang Weng

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Minoru Asada
Dana Ballard
Luis Baumela
Mark Baxter
Jeff Cohn
Kerstin Dautenhahn
Risto Miikulainen
Martha Farah
Masahiro Fujita
William Greenough
Michael Hasselmo
Shoji Itakura
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Robert Jacobs
David Kleinfeld
Mark Konishi
Denis Mareshal
Douglas Nitz
Roz Picard
Matthew Schlesinger
Gregor Schoener
Geoffrey Schoenbaum
Linda Smith
Olaf Sporns
Luc Steels
Manuela Veloso
Paul Verschure 
Christoph von der Malsburg
Hiroyuki Yano