Draft Agenda for IWRC '98
Note the final agenda differed slightly from this draft of early April 1998.
Thursday 23rd April
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8.30
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Arrival
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9.00
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Greg Mulhauser
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BT
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Introduction & welcome, who is here & why; narrow description of workshop aims.
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9.15
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Peter Cochrane
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BT
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Why is BT interested? Broad description of aims/wider corporate perspective.
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9.30
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Chris Winter
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BT
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BT's current research directions.
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9.45
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Jordan Pollack
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Brandeis
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How should we be thinking about the design and application of large-scale cognitive systems?
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10.45
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Coffee
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11.00
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Phil Husbands
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Sussex
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Bottom-up A-Life and large scale systems.
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12.00
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Lunch
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13.00
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Michael O'Shea
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Sussex
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What lessons can we first pick up from invertebrate neural systems?
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14.00
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Moshe Sipper
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EPFL
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Evolvable hardware & cellular automata.
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15.00
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Coffee
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15.15
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Steve Grossberg
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Boston
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Overview of computational neuroscience work, with detailed look at perception.
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16.30
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Workshop session
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17.30
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Finish
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Friday 24th April
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8.30
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Dario Floreano
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EPFL
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Mobile robots work to date, plus indications of what we would need to move mobile robotics in the desired directions.
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9.30
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Inman Harvey
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Sussex
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Evolutionary robotics, and notes on prospects and limits of current artificial evolution techniques for adaptive systems.
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10.30
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Coffee
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10.45
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Dave Keating
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Reading
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Distributed robotics: splitting intelligence across several machines
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11.45
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Rod Webb
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BT
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Application of other available silicon neural nets, such as URAN chip.
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12.30
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Lunch
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13.30
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Steve Grossberg
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Boston
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Computational neuroscience work, with detailed look at cognitive & motivational contexts.
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14.45
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Coffee
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15.00
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Gert Cauwenberghs
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Johns Hopkins
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Overview of work on neuromorphic analogue silicon, emphasising both on-board learning and combination learning and externally imposed chip configurations.
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16.00
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Michael Lockwood
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Oxford
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Critical reflections on material so far; kick off subsequent workshop session.
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16.30
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Workshop session
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17.30
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Finish
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Evening
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Reception
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BT
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Evening reception hosted by Professor Peter Cochrane, director of BT's Applied Research and Technology.
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Saturday 25th April
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8.30
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Alan Steventon
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BT
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BT comments.
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8.45
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Aaron Sloman
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Birmingham
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Conceptual problems with efforts to build self aware machines; design strategies.
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9.45
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Steve Grossberg
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Boston
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Computational neuroscience work, with detailed look at motor control.
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11.00
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Coffee
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11.15
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Greg Mulhauser
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BT
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Awareness, consciousness, and cognitive robotics.
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12.00
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Lunch
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13.00
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Workshop session
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14.15
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Coffee
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14.30
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Dan Dennett
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Tufts
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Design strategies and minimal requirements; comments on why any particular strategies from workshop sessions might be preferred.
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15.30
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Workshop session
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16.45
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Wrapping up
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BT
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Closing matters.
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17.00
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Finish
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