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Mon Jun 5 16:42:55 EDT 2006

 9:30- 10:00     Heinz Muehlenbein (GMD, Bonn)  	
Inspiration from Nature vs. Copying nature. Lessons Learned
from Genetic Algorithms 			         

 10:00- 10:50    Stephen Grossberg (Boston U)
Are there Universal Principles of Brain Computation?

 10:50-11:30    Discussion and Coffee 

 11:30-12:00    Anil Nerode (Cornell, Ithaca)    
Hybrid Systems as a Modelling Substrate for Biological and Cognitive Systems

 12:00- 12:30    Daniel Mange (EPFL, Lausanne)  
Von Neumann Revisited: a Turing Machine with Self-Repair and Self-Reproduction Properties

 12:30- 1:30      Lunch 

 Robotics and Autonomous Systems

 1:30- 1:50 Lynne Parker (ORNL, Oak Ridge)       