Conference on Humanoid Robots

[Stefan Schaal]

Appended you find the call for papers for the first international 
conference on Humanoid Robots. We are particularly interested in 
soliciting contributions from the learning community for this conference. 
Supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and reinforcement learning 
are core elements in sensory motor control of a humanoid robot, the same as
in biological systems. The need for algorithms that scale well to 
high-dimensional data, work incrementally in real-time, can integrate 
multi-modal information and deal with hidden state makes the area of 
humanoid robotics a very interesting challenge for new learning theories.

With best regards,

Stefan Schaal & Alois Knoll


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CALL FOR PAPERS -- Please circulate


                 *** HUMANOIDS2000 ***

-- The First IEEE-RAS Intern. Conf. on Humanoid Robots --
-- Co-sponsored by the Robotics Society of Japan (RSJ) --

          Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
                    Sept. 7-8, 2000

Papers should present current work, outline research
programmes, and/or summarize in a tutorial style the state
of the art in areas that are related to the building of, 
controling of , and learning in humanoid robots or that can 
be expected to be of importance to the field in the future. 
Note that we are also especially interested in connectionist
and statistical learning methods as they relate to learning
sensorimotor control and higher planning abilities in 
complex, high-dimensional movement systems.

Paper submission deadline is April 21, 2000.

For mor information, please visit the conference web sites at

           http://humanoids.uni-bielefeld.de
                          or
               http://humanoids.usc.edu

for further details (including a full Call for Papers
in PDF and Postcript format).

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Deadlines

Submission: April 21, 2000
Notification: June 30, 2000
Camera-Ready Copy: August 4, 2000
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Contact address:
humanoids at usc.edu
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Conference Chairs:
G.A.Bekey, USC (General)
R.A.Brooks, MIT (Honorary)

A.C.Knoll, U Bielefeld (Program)
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Program Committee:
M. Asada (Osaka U)
C. Atkeson (Georgia Tech)
T. Christaller (GMD-Bonn)
T. Fukuda (Nagoya U)
S. Hashimoto (U Waseda)
H. Inoue (U Tokyo)
K. Kawamura (Vanderbilt U)
B. Keeley (U Northern Iowa)
P. Khosla (CMU)
T. Kobayashi (U Waseda)
Y. Kuniyoshi (MITI Tsukuba)
M. Mataric (USC)
R. Pfeifer (U Zurich)
R. Reiter (U Toronto)
S. Schaal (USC) 
S. Sugano (Waseda U)
M. Wheeler (U Stirling)
S. Yuta (U Tsukuba) 
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Alois Knoll
(knoll at ti.uni-bielefeld.de)