ICDL 2004 - Extension to May 21, 2004

[Tony Jebara]

ICDL 2004 CALL FOR PAPERS
DEADLINE HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO FRIDAY, MAY 21 2004
There will be absolutely no further extensions.

THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING: DEVELOPING 
SOCIAL BRAINS

The Salk Institute
October 20-22, 2004
San Diego, California
A Satellite Conference preceding
The Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference
http://www.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 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
The extended submission deadline is May 21, 2004. Papers for the meeting 
can be submitted ONLY through the conference's web site at:
http://www.icdl.cc. Papers can be submitted either as a 200 word summary 
or as a full paper (max 8 typeset pages).
IMPORTANT: There will be NO further submission deadline extensions. 

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, on Development, Learning, and the Social Brain, published by 
Elsevier Science B.V.
(http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neucom)

INVITED TALKS (Not yet confirmed)
John Allman 
Dana Ballard 
Rodney Brooks
Eric Courchesne 
Peter Dayan
Jeff Elman
William Greenough
James L. McClelland
Pietro Perona
Terrence Sejnowski
Joan Stiles
John Watson

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 August.

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

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

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Minoru Asada
Dana Ballard
Luis Baumela 
Simon Baron-Cohen
Mark Baxter
Jeff Cohn
Kerstin Dautenhahn 
Kenji Doya
Martha Farah 
Teresa Farroni
Masahiro Fujita
Ann Graybiel
William Greenough
Michael Hasselmo
Shoji Itakura
Hiroshi Ishiguro
Robert Jacobs
David Kleinfeld
Mark Konishi
Denis Mareshal 
Risto Miikulainen
Douglas Nitz
Roz Picard 
Steven Quartz 
Rajesh Rao
Matthew Schlesinger
Gregor Schoener
Geoffrey Schoenbaum
Linda Smith
Olaf Sporns
Luc Steels
Valerie Stone
Manuela Veloso
Paul Verschure 
Christoph von der Malsburg 
Hiroyuki Yano

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:
Register online at http://www.icdl.cc
Student Registration is: $150
Non-student Registration is: $290