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Starting: Sat Jul 1 06:56:27 EDT 2006
Ending: Mon Jul 31 22:04:13 EDT 2006
Messages: 39

• Connectionists: 2 RCUK fellowships at Sussex University   Phil Husbands
• Connectionists: Announcement: The Adaptive Brain Symposium at the University of Minnesota   A David Redish
• Connectionists: ANNPR 2006 : Call for registrations   Friedhelm Schwenker
• Connectionists: Bernstein Fellow PostDoc-Position: Bernstein Fellow for Computational Neuroscience   Tobias Niemann
• Connectionists: Call for Registration: Epigenetic Robotics 2006, 20-22 September 2006, Paris, France Sixth International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems website: http://www.epigenetic-robotics.org contact information: epirob06@csl.sony.fr Location: Hopital de la Salpêtrière, Paris, France REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN on http://www.csl.sony.fr/epirob2006/registration.htm early registration fees are available until July, 31 Confirmed invited speakers 2006 Karen Adolph (Psychology Dpt, New York University, USA) Andrew Barto (Computer Science Dpt, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA) Philippe Rochat (Psychology Dpt, University of Emory, USA) Gregor Schoener (Institut für Neuroinformatik, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Germany) Bruno Wicker (Institut de Neurosciences Cognitives de la Mediterranée, France) Conference Themes In the past 5 years, the Epigenetic Robotics annual workshop has established itself as a unique place where original research combining developmental sciences, neuroscience, biology, and cognitive robotics and artificial intelligence is being presented. Epigenetic systems, either natural or artificial, share a prolonged developmental process through which varied and complex cognitive and perceptual structures emerge as a result of the interaction of an embodied system with a physical and social environment. Epigenetic robotics includes the two-fold goal of understanding biological systems by the interdisciplinary integration between social and engineering sciences and, simultaneously, that of enabling robots and artificial systems to develop skills for any particular environment instead of programming them for solving particular goals for the environment in which they happen to reside. Psychological theory and empirical evidence is being used to inform epigenetic robotic models, and these models should be used as theoretical tools to make experimental predictions in developmental psychology. This year we particularly encourage research resulting from actual interdisciplinary collaboration. Epigenetic Robotics themes include, but are not limited to: * The development of: emotion, imitation, synchrony processing, intersubjectivity, joint attention, intentionality, non-verbal and verbal communication, sensorimotor schemata, shared meaning and symbolic reference, social learning, social relationships, social cognition ("mind reading", "theory of mind"); * The scope and limits of maturation, the mechanisms of open-ended development; * The mechanisms of stage formation and stage transitions; * The epistemological foundations of using robots to study development; * The role of motivations, emotions, and value systems in development; * Interaction between innate structure, ongoing developing structure, and experience; * The interplay between embodiment, learning biases and environment; * The differences between learning and development; * Algorithms for self-supervision, autonomous exploration, representation making, and methods for evolving new representations during ontogeny; * Robots that can undergo morphological changes and how they can be used to study the interplay between cognitive and morphological development; Tutorials Two tutorials will be organized during the conference - "Featural processing of auditory and visual inputs for epigenetic robots " Christian Balkenius & Christopher G. Prince - "Development of imitation and emotion in human and robots: cross fertilization of research" Organized by Philippe Gaussier and Jacqueline Nadel Call for Registration: 6th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics   Pierre-Yves Oudeyer
• Connectionists: Call for Workshop Proposals: NIPS 2006   Rajesh Rao
• Connectionists: CFP: Dynamics and Psychology   Aarre Laakso
• Connectionists: Chair in ISIS Group, University of Southampton   Craig Saunders
• Connectionists: CNS 2006 - Hippocampus Workshop in Edinburgh, July 19th   Laurenz Wiskott
• Connectionists: Encyclopedia of Computational Neuroscience   Eugene M. Izhikevich
• Connectionists: EPFL Computer Science Summer Research Institute   Renaud Jolivet
• Connectionists: Extended Deadline : Call for Participation and Presentations : IDIAP 15th Anniversary Workshop   David Barber
• Connectionists: Forthcoming book on Evolving Connectionist Systems   Nikola Kasabov
• Connectionists: Indiana University Cognitive Science Position   Randall Beer
• Connectionists: International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Information Fusion: Funding Available   M.Casey at surrey.ac.uk
• Connectionists: Network issue 17.2 now available   Geoffrey Goodhill
• Connectionists: NEURAL COMPUTATION August, 2006   Terry Sejnowski
• Connectionists: Neurocomputing Special Issue on Advances in Blind Signal Processing   Deniz Erdogmus
• Connectionists: NEURON course at 2006 SFN meeting   Ted Carnevale
• Connectionists: New thesis -- Modeling the McCollough Effect   Julien Ciroux
• Connectionists: Non-linear dimensionality reduction using neural networks   Ruslan Salakhutdinov
• Connectionists: Paper: Ideas by Statistical Mechanics (ISM)   Lester Ingber
• Connectionists: Permanent Lectureship in Disordered Systems at King's College London   psollich at mth.kcl.ac.uk
• Connectionists: PhD / Postdoc position at Lübeck University, Institute for Neuro- and Bioinformatics   Martin Boehme
• Connectionists: PhD studentship at Queen's University Belfast   Peter Dayan
• Connectionists: Positions Sony CSL Paris - Neuro   Olivier J.-M. D. Coenen
• Connectionists: post-doctoral fellowship   A. Taylan Cemgil
• Connectionists: Post-doctoral position, Computer Vision Lab, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland   Pascal Fua
• Connectionists: Postdoc on plasticity models, Edinburgh   Mark van Rossum
• Connectionists: postdoctoral fellowship proposal   Bernard Girau
• Connectionists: Postdoctoral position available in Neurodynamics   Ricardo Gutierrez-Osuna
• Connectionists: postdoctoral position, call for applications   Bernard Girau
• Connectionists: Postdoctoral position, Learning for Multiagent control, Imperial College London   Yiannis Demiris
• Connectionists: Realistic Neural Modeling Tutorials available   Dave Beeman
• Connectionists: Research Position in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics   Matthias Franz
• Connectionists: Short term 'Visiting Fellowships - IRIDIA-ULB - Brussels   Elio Tuci
• Connectionists: Springer Book Series: Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing (AI & KP)   Lakhmi Jain
• Connectionists: Summary of courses available   Geoffrey Goodhill
• Connectionists: The Spider -- Machine Learning Toolbox for Matlab   Gökhan H BakIr

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