<div dir="ltr">Limited places remaining in the 2013 International <span class="">Summer</span> <span class="">School</span> on Cognitive Computation, to be held at the University of Stirling, Scotland, UK, from 25-30 August 2013: <a href="http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/COGCOMP2013/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/COGCOMP2013/</a><br>
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<br>The FINAL round of applications will close on Monday, 28 June 2013,
and places are limited, so you should act soon if you want to learn
about the latest brain-inspired cognitive technologies for engineering
the intelligent systems of tomorrow!<br>
<br>The five-day <span class="">School</span> programme will consist
of a set of tutorial-style lectures, all delivered by experts of
international standing combined with hands-on practical sessions for
constructing and working with the techniques and applications covered in
the course material.<br>
<br>Registration fee (without accommodation): <br>£250 (fee covers all course materials, lunches, coffees and <span class="">School</span> dinner).<br><div><br></div><div>Registration fee including Accommodation: </div>Choice
of 4-6 nights (£450-£500-£550) full-board (breakfast, lunch and dinner
inclusive) on-Campus accommodation in single en-suite rooms.<br>
<br>Scholarships Available: <div>(i) The <span class="">School</span>
sponsor: Scottish Informatics & Computer Science Alliance (SICSA),
will cover the £500 registration fee for PhD students in computer
science departments of SICSA member Scottish universities (for a full
list of SICSA Universities, see: <a href="http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/about/SICSA_Universities" target="_blank">http://www.sicsa.ac.uk/about/SICSA_Universities</a>). The number of SICSA scholarships is limited and a decision on ranking will be taken if necessary. <br>
(ii) Up to two competitive places are also being generously sponsored by the
IEEE UK-RI Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) Chapter. <br>(iii) Six partial (merit) scholarships (of up to £150 each) are being offered by Springer to School applicants who will also be required to present their research at the School Poster Session.<br>
</div><div><br>Overview: </div>
<div>Cognitive Computation is an emerging discipline that links together
neurobiology, cognitive psychology and artificial intelligence.The
vision of this <span class="">Summer</span> <span class="">School</span>
is to empower participants with an interdisciplinary understanding of
some of the key underlying methodologies, concepts and techniques in
cognitive computation, and their strengths and limitations (demonstrated
by a range of real-world case studies). Participants will also learn of
future directions in this exciting multi-disciplinary field. Topics
covered will include: perception, action, affective and cognitive
learning and memory, attention, decision making and control, social
cognition, language processing and communication, reasoning, pattern
recognition, problem solving, and consciousness. <br><br>Springer’s Neuroscience Publishing Editor will
also give a talk on “Publishing interdisciplinary research in
scientific journals” on the first day, Monday, 26 August, which will be followed by a Research Posters Session, and Exhibition
organized by Springer (with prize awarded to the best
poster). Authors of selected posters, judged by the Keynote Guest
Lecturer: Professor Igor Aleksander, will be invited to submit
extended/full papers to Springer’s Cognitive Computation journal (<a href="http://www.springer.com/12559">http://www.springer.com/12559</a>).<br></div><div>
<br>Audience: </div>The <span class="">School</span> is intended
for postgraduate, PhD students, postdoctoral and industrial researchers working in all areas of
cognitive computation, including its theoretical, applied, artificial
and natural dimensions. More generally, it will appeal to researchers
interested in biologically inspired computing techniques and
applications, for example: machine learning, computational intelligence,
cognitive and computational neuroscience, machine consciousness, neural
hardware implementations and biologically inspired robotics and
systems. Although the course will have substantial technical content, no
prerequisites are required beyond a good background/first-degree in
computer science/informatics or a related subject.<br>
<br>For details of the <span class="">School</span> programme and application process, please see: <a href="http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/COGCOMP2013/" target="_blank">http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/events/COGCOMP2013/</a><br>
<br>We hope to see you soon in Stirling!<br>
<br>Amir<br><br>---<br>Professor Amir Hussain<br>Personal Chair in Computing Science<br><span class="">School</span> of Natural Sciences, University of Stirling,<br>Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland, UK<br>E-mail: <a href="mailto:ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk" target="_blank">ahu@cs.stir.ac.uk</a><br>
Tel/Fax: <a href="tel:%2B44%20%280%291786%20467437" value="+441786467437" target="_blank">+44 (0)1786 467437</a> / 464551<br>
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