Connectionists: IEEE ICDL 2007 Call for Participation

[Yiannis Demiris]

Dear colleagues,

please find below the call for participation
for the 2007 IEEE International Conference
on Development and Learning, taking place
at Imperial College London, 11-13 July 2007.

More details and updates at
http://www.icdl07.org/

With best wishes,
Yiannis
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Dr Yiannis Demiris,
Lecturer, Intelligent Systems and Networks Group,
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,
Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus,
Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2BT, UK
Tel: +44(0)2075946300, Fax: +44(0)2075946274
http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/yiannis

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
 
IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-2007)
Imperial College London, 11-13 July 2007
 
Program, registration and accommodation details at http://www.icdl07.org
 
Development and Learning are fundamental properties of any cognitive system,
whether natural or artificial, and have attracted the attention of
psychologists, neuroscientists, roboticists and artificial intelligence
researchers. The International Conference on Development and Learning
strives to bring together this interdisciplinary audience to encourage
understanding and cross-fertilization of ideas from the different
disciplines. Now in its 6th year, ICDL 2007 will have the theme of
"Assisting Development" to encourage participants to consider the
application of their research to the conceptualization, design and
implementation of systems that can assist development.
 
Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to):
 
* General Principles of Development and Learning in Humans and Robots
* Neural, Behavioral and Computational Plasticity
* Biologically Inspired Mental Architectures for Development
* Embodied Cognition: Foundations and Applications
* Social Development in Humans and Robots
* Language Development and Learning
* Dynamic Systems Approaches
* Emergence of Structures through Development
* Development of Perceptual and Motor Systems
* Models of Developmental Disorders
* Architectures and software/hardware platforms for assisting development.
 
Invited Speakers
 
We are delighted to confirm the participation of the following keynote
speakers:
 
Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Professor Atsushi Iriki, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN, Japan
Professor Mark Johnson, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Professor Thomas R. Shultz, McGill University, Canada
 
Call for participation
 
We invite interested participants to join us in discussing these issues at
Imperial College London, between 11 and 13 of July 2007. Program,
Registration and accommodation details can be found at http://www.icdl07.org
 
Important dates:
 
Early registration & accommodation at Imperial deadline: June 12, 2007
Conference: 11-13 July 2007
 
The conference is sponsored by the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society
and the euCognition network.
 
For further information, see www.icdl07.org or contact the organizers below:
 
Chair
 
Dr Yiannis Demiris 
Department of EEE, 
Imperial College London
y.demiris at imperial.ac.uk
http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/yiannis
 
Program chairs
 
Prof. Denis Mareschal
School of Psychology
Birkbeck College
University of London
d.mareschal at bbk.ac.uk
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/psyc/staff/academic/dmareschal
 
Prof. Brian Scassellati
Dept. of Computer Science
Yale University   
scaz at cs.yale.edu
http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/scaz/
 
Prof. John  Weng
Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University weng at cse.msu.edu
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~weng/