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2008

July

31 July - 2 August 2008: Epigenetic Robotics 2008; Brighton, UK; In the past 7 years, the Epigenetic Robotics annual conference has established itself as a unique place where original interdisciplinary research from developmental sciences, neuroscience, biology, cognitive robotics, and artificial intelligence is being presented.
Psychological theory and empirical evidence is being used to inform epigenetic robotic models, and these models can be used as theoretical tools to make experimental predictions in developmental psychology.
23–25 July 2008: 10^th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems; Baden-Baden, Germany; State-of-the-art autonomous systems are not limited anymore to structured and fully defined environments. Current research covers aerial, under water, and automotive robotics as well as systems that are deployed to human-centered environments. The 10^th International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems will bring together leading researchers interested in all aspects of autonomy and adaptivity of artificial systems. In the spirit of the previous stimulating meetings, the goal of this conference is to lay out new scientific ideas and design principles for artificial systems able to act in real-world environments and thus improve the quality of live in the human society.
11-12 July 2008: The role of emotion in adaptive behaviour and cognitive robotics (SAB '08 workshop); Osaka, Japan; Affect and emotion have recently become a hot topic in the study of adaptive behaviour and embodied cognition in both natural and artificial systems. However, the regulatory role of affect/emotion, the relevant underlying mechanisms, and the interaction between affective/emotional and cognitive processes are still not well understood. In order to develop a better understanding of the role of affect/emotion in adaptive behaviour and cognitive robotics this workshop will bring together research on the following themes: Affective Mechanisms, Emotional Agents, and Social Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction.
7-12 July 2008: Tenth International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behaviour (SAB '08); Osaka, Japan; The objective of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together researchers in computer science, artificial intelligence, alife, control, robotics, neurosciences, ethology, evolutionary biology, and related fields so as to further our understanding of the behaviours and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and artificial animals to adapt and survive in uncertain environments. The conference will focus on experiments with well-defined models --- robot models, computer simulation models, mathematical models --- designed to help characterize and compare various organizational principles or architectures underlying adaptive behaviour in real animals and in synthetic agents, the animats.
2-4 July 2008: 25^th Annual Workshop of the European Society for the Study of Cognitive Systems; Genoa, Italy; The aim of the annual workshops is the exchange of knowledge, information, and opinions on all aspects of cognition and related topics, with emphasis on exchanges between different disciplines involved. Papers may be either of a general kind, or specific, but with sufficient attention for the general aspects, and understandable or the audience from a wide variety of disciplines.

June

28 June 2008: CogSys Doctoral Consortium; Munich, Germany; The CogSys Doctoral Consortium is an opportunity for senior PhD students to share their research with peers and researchers in their field. It is also an excellent chance to meet and network with other doctoral students and researchers and to initiate new research projects or develop their network of research colleagues. The Consortium is limited to 10 students who will be mentored by a panel of established researchers with substantial experience in the field who will actively participate and contribute to the discussions. The consortium will operate in a workshop format, providing feedback on the participants' current research and guidance for future progress and invited speakers will also take part in the Consortium.
27 June 2008: euCognition six-monthly Meeting - The role of Anticipation in Cognition; Munich, Germany
26 June 2008: ABiALS - The fourth workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems; Munich, Germany; The ABiALS workshops are designed to encourage interdisciplinary research on anticipatory behavior in animals, animats, and artificial intelligence systems. Anticipatory behavior is a mechanism, or a behavior, that does not only depend on the past and present but also on predictions, expectations, or beliefs about the future. The expected outcome of the workshop is to discuss and evaluate the different influences that predictions, expectations, goals, desires, or intentions can have on actual behavior, including influences on attention, action decision making and control, as well as learning. To do so, there will be several invited overview talks on anticipatory mechanisms in different disciplines, short presentations of concrete approaches in artificial cognitive systems, and several interactive discussion sessions.
24-27 June 2008: BICS 2008 - Third International Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems Conference; Sao Luis, Brazil; BICS 2008 identifies the forefront of research in brain inspired cognitive systems and points to the most exciting lines for future research. BICS 2008 presents a unique and timely opportunity for Brazilian and South American researchers to present their work to an international audience and for international researchers to showcase their work in Brazil.
10-13 June 2008: AUTOMATICA 2008; Munich, Germany; AUTOMATICA presents an international product range covering assembly and handling technology, robotics, machine vision and associated technologies.
This makes AUTOMATICA the very first international event that brings together all branches of the robotics and automation industry under the same roof in a single event. It is being staged in Munich, the central hub of the biggest European market for robotics and automation products.

May

19-23 May 2008: ICRA 2008 - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation; Pasadena, USA; The theme of the conference is Human-Centered Robotics, the movement toward robotics technology that aids in the course of human everyday life.
12-15 May 2008: 6^th International Conference on Computer Vision Systems – ICVS 2008; Santorini, Greece; This conference aims to bring together researchers and developers from both academia and industry worldwide to share their research results covering all aspects of intelligent vision systems. A major theme will be vision systems that interact with or respond to their environment in a dynamic and adaptive manner, with an emphasis put on integrated systems that are robust enough to be deployed in largely unconstrained environments.

April

2-4 April 2008: CogSys 2008, International Conference on Cognitive Systems; University of Karlsruhe, Germany; After Bled in 2004 and Nijmegen in 2006, this is the third in a series of Cognitive Systems events which share and discuss the progress made in the research community around the EU sponsored projects in the field of Cognitive Systems. CogSys 2008 will take the form of a first international conference on Cognitive Systems, bringing together researchers from various fields to identify current research trends, to present and to review recent work and to speculate about the future of cognitive systems.

March

26-28 March 2008: EUROS 2008 - European Robotics Symposium 2008; Prague, Czech Republic; The European Robotics Symposium 2008, hosted by the European Robotics Research Network (EURON), provides a single-track and high quality scientific forum and presents leading edge research on robotic across the latest topics in fundamental research and applications. EUROS 2008 2in1 concept represents both the top-quality scientific event as well as promotes extended features for young researchers and PhD students. The young scientists will be offered to get in touch with Europe's leading research labs. Ph.D. students and young researchers who would like to share their research achievements are encouraged to bring and display their work on posters throughout the EURON II Annual Meeting.
12-15 March 2008: Human-Robot Interaction 2008; Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Human-robot interaction is essential in enabling robots to transcend the role of mere tools and begin to collaborate with humans to accomplish complex tasks. Directed at researchers in robotics, human-factors, ergonomics and human-computer interaction, this interdisciplinary conference showcases the best research in human-robot interaction. The 2008 theme 'Living With Robots' highlights the importance of the technical and social issues underlying long-term human-robot interaction towards companion and assistive robots for long-term use in everyday life and work activities.
9-15 March 2008: Robotics: Experimental Cognitive Robotics - ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference Series for Young Researchers; Kanagawa, Japan; Cognitive robotics is where the frontier of science meets that of technology. Neuroscience focuses on the nature of neurons and the brain. Cognitive science studies the nature of the human mind. It is a contemporary effort of science to bridge the gap between the neuron and the mind, and to explain the workings of the human mind as a whole. Robotics provides scientists with a means to reproduce experiments for testing their theoretical hypotheses. The grand challenge of cognitive robotics is on achieving natural and intelligent interaction of robots with humans. The ESF-JSPS Frontier Science Conference Series for Young Researchers will illuminate the crossroads of science and technology by inviting young researchers who are actively working in the fields of cognitive science and robotics, as well as those who are interested in learning these subjects. The lecturers are eminent researchers leading the fields in Europe and Japan.
9-14 March 2008: Understanding Behaviour from Video Sequences; Les Houches, France; This thematic winter school is jointly organized by three European consortiums: Marie-Curie networks VISIONTRAIN and WARTHE, and the IST project POP (Perception on Purpose). It is intended mainly for PhD students and young researchers. The school programme is multidisciplinary in order to be interesting also to researchers outside the field of computer vision, e.g. in cognitive sciences, psychology, psychophysics. The industrial state-of-the-art in video surveillance will also be addressed by some of the speakers.
1-3 March 2008: The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence; University of Memphis, USA; 'The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was initially directly aimed at the construction of computer systems with human-like general intelligence. But this task proved very difficult, and AI researchers focused on producing AI systems displaying intelligence regarding specific tasks in relatively narrow domains. In recent years, however, more and more researchers have recognized the necessity ? and feasibility ? of returning to the original goals of the field and call for a transition back to confronting the more difficult issues of 'human level intelligence' and more broadly 'artificial general intelligence (AGI)'. The conference is explicitly open to all the various techniques used in seeking to realize general intelligence ? for instance, symbolic, connectionist, evolutionary, robotic, mathematical, or integrative approaches.'

February

20-21 February 2008: Models of Thought: Post-Cognitivist Methodologies; Munich, Germany; With the decline of 'symbols and rules' models of cognition (the essence of 'cognitivism'), the rise of thinking in areas such as 'situated cognition', 'embodied cognition' and 'distributed cognition' can be seen as falling under a general rubric of 'post-cognitivism'. This euCognition workshop discusses the impact of these new concepts on methodology. The twin themes are post-cognitivism and artifical systems/models.

January

22 January 2008: The First International Workshop on Online Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Techniques for Computer-Vision Applications (OPRMLT 2008); Funchal, Madeira, Portugal; In real life, visual learning is supposed to be a continuous process; in machine vision, by contrast, learning has been so far considered in a limited and isolated way. Organised in conjunction with the 3^rd International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications (VISAPP 2008 ), this workshop focuses on a recent trend in pattern recognition represented by online learning approaches which continuously update the data representation when new information arrives.
10-11 January 2008: 4^th euCognition Six-Monthly Meeting; Venice, Italy; The fourth six-monthly meeting for members of the EU-funded European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems. On Thursday, 10 January, the meeting will organise a student competition on cognitive systems research topics. Friday, 11 January, will be devoted to social cognition, featuring Steve Harnad, Luc Steels, Jordan Pollack and Michael Arbib as speakers.
10 January 2008: Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics - Call 3 Information Day; Luxembourg; This information event is addressed to researchers interested in submitting project proposals under Challenge 2 - Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics.
6-11 January 2008: Bayesian Cognition Winter School; Chamonix - Mont-Blanc, France; The Bayesian Cognition Winter School presents and discusses the latest advances in the use of probabilistic models and algorithms in life sciences and information sciences as ways of understanding the behaviour of subjects and the neural processing underlying this behaviour, and building robots and artificial agents that can function effectively in such circumstances.

2007

December

10-12 December 2007: Symposium on Language and Robots; Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; Organised by the Distributed Language Group, the Symposium on Language and Robots aims to explore synergies and identify areas of collaboration between robotics and language sciences. As its starting point it takes a perspective which sees language as a dynamic and distributed cognitive process.

November

26-27 November 2007: COGIS'07 – COGnitive systems with Interactive Sensors; Stanford University, USA; Sensors are more and more integrated in complex systems and information systems, requiring more coherent, efficient, and reactive processes to be developed across the signal and image processing disciplines. Hence, system design and control pose major challenges in development of autonomous sensor systems and interactions between them, including mechanisms for their individual and collective behavior optimization. The symposium seeks to build a future-looking view of this emerging topic, considering methodological aspects as well as application potentials.
26 November 2007: ICT Call 3 Information Day in the UK - Cognition, Interaction & Robotics; Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK; The UK National contact Point for the ICT theme of the European Commission's seventh research framework programme is pleased to announce an information day. This will take place at Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middlesex, UB8 3PH. It will include speakers from the EC's Cognition & Robotics Unit and experts from the UK research field.; The presentations are available on the FP7UK site.; FP7UK Events Team; E-mail: Contact Form
9 November 2007: Mathematical Models of Cognitive Behaviour; Bristol, UK; This workshop, organised by the Pascal network of excellence and the euCognition coordination action, is interested in the application of probabilistic approaches to the general problem of modelling cognitive systems. The focus will be on modelling cognitive abilities as forms of probabilistic inference and especially on statistical and reactive models of cognitive behaviour.

September

24-28 September 2007: Summer-School on Assistive Robots - IURS-2007; Bonaire Hotel, Benicàssim, Spain; The interest in different types of assistive robotics in the last years is not only motivated by the trend of designing robots with more complex capabilities, but mainly for the social implications of the applications of these robots. They must be able to perform a wide range of different tasks in partially or completely unknown environments. And, what is most interesting, they must able to cooperate and probably communicate with humans in a variety of modes. The development of such amount of different capabilities represents and ambitious and attractive research field for many scientists. This symposium aims at being an interdisciplinary forum that can help to study and analyse the possibilities this field opens to research. World-wide known lecturers will give the students a general background on these main topics and introduce them in the basic concepts related to the design and development of assistive robots.
22-26 September 2007: Rescue Robotics Camp; Roma, Italy; This camp, now in its fourth year, has provided a key resource for researchers interested in learning about state-of-the-art solutions for rescue robotics, including locomotion, sensors, perception, mapping, planning, mobile manipulation, operator interfaces, autonomous behaviours, and high-fidelity simulation environments. It teaches best-in-class robotic capabilities demonstrated effective in international RoboCupRescue competitions and introduces researchers to other emerging technologies and approaches. Lectures and intense practical development sessions reduce theoretical research into implemented solutions that attendees demonstrate in a comprehensive robot demonstration within emerging standard robot test methods for rescue robotics. The 2007 camp will be co-located with the IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics (SSRR07).
5-12 September 2007: 3rd Summer School on Surgical Robotics; Montpellier, France; The highly interdisciplinary nature of surgical robotics requires close cooperation between medical staff and researchers in mechanics, computer technology, control and electrical engineering.
Depending on the application, surgical robotics gets more or less deeply into the following fields: multi-modal information processing; modelling of rigid and deformable anatomical parts; pre-surgical planning and simulation of robotic interventions; design and control of guiding systems for assistance of the surgeon gesture. These fields will be addressed by surgeons and researchers working in leading hospitals and labs. They will be completed by engineers who will give insight into practical integration problems.

August

30 August 2007: CPCS07 Challenging Problems In Cognitive Systems: Abstraction and Context; Vienna, Austria; This euCognition-funded workshop seeks to clarify the relation between the different views and conceptualisations of the notions of Abstraction and Context and thereby improve our understanding of the nature of cognitive capabilities.
6-14 August 2007: Player Summer School on Cognitive Robotics; Munich, Germany; During the school, the students will have the opportunity to attend expert lectures and participate in a variety of challenging and exciting practical sessions. These hands-on development sessions will be chosen from key research areas (e.g., robot navigation, exploration, mapping and localization, manipulation), and will allow the students to learn and implement state-of-the-art algorithms for solving various problems, with the use of tools from the Player Project. The results of the school will be made publicly available to the community as open source software, through the Player Project .

July

11-13 July 2007: IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning 2007; London, UK; A conference with an interdisciplinary audience, the 2007 edition of ICDL has the theme "Assisting Development" and focuses on applying participants' research to the conceptualisation, design and implementation of systems that can assist development.

June

25-26 June 2007: International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Cognition; Oxford, UK; The International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Cognition is organised with the support of euCognition -- the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems -- and the US National Science Foundation, and it is directed at international experts in human, animal and machine behaviour and cognition. The primary objective of the workshop is to bring together two remote communities, in behavioral ecology and in artificial intelligence and cognitive science, to discuss common problems in defining and studying theoretically and empirically critical concepts, such as “understanding”, “problem solving” and “creativity”. The workshop aims to identify principles that apply universally to all agents, to humans and other animals and AI systems and robots, alike.

March

28-29 March 2007: EURON Annual Meeting; Chania, Crete, Greece; Annual meeting of the EURON Network of Excellence.
25-30 March 2007: Parallel Robots: Theory and Applications; Benidorm, Spain; A Robotics Winter School on Parallel Robots will take place from March 25-30 2007 in Benidorm, Spain. This School is organised by the Virtual Reality and Robotics Lab. of Miguel Hernandez University, in collaboration with the Disam Department of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and EURON.

January

24-25 January 2007

FP7 in Motion: Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics, Digital Libraries and Content

Luxembourg

This event, addressed to researchers preparing project proposals under FP7, theme 'Information and communication technologies', will focus on two research challenges in the ICT Work Programme 2007-2008:

Challenge 2: Cognitive Systems, Interaction, Robotics
Challenge 4, Objective 1: Digital Libraries and Technology-enhanced Learning
Challenge 4, Objective 2: Intelligent Content and Semantics

Challenge 2, Cognitive Systems, Interaction and Robotics will be presented on Wednesday, 24 January - see the detailed programme. The programme of the whole two-day event can be accessed from the event web site.

11-12 January 2007

2nd euCognition Six-Monthly Meeting

Cannes or Venice (venue to be decided)

The second six-monthly meeting for members of the EU-funded European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems

6-12 January 2007

IJCAI Joint Conference of IJCAI and the national AI societies on Artificial Intelligence

Hyderabad, India

2006

December

14-16 December 2006: Embodying Cognition: Towards an Integrated Approach?; Palma de Mallorca, Spain; An interdisciplinary workshop, organised by Facultat de Psicologia de la UIB and supported by euCognition, dealing with what are the sensorimotor grounds of higher cognition; what is the nature of mental processes in the extended, social mind; how can executive functions operate without a central executive; how can mental chronology studies be understood from an embedded, time-constrained, point of view; what is the relevance of robotics as simulation; what definite breakthroughs are required for a radical start; and is it possible to go beyond a correlational neuroscience?
4-6 December 2006: 2006 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots; Genova, Italy; This year's conference, co-organised by institutions involved in the EU-funded projects in the area of Artificial Cognitive Systems, addresses aspects of the human-humanoid mutual understanding and co-development.

November

20-21 November 2006: ENACTIVE/06: 3rd International Conference on Enactive Interfaces (Enaction & Complexity); Montpellier, France; ENACTIVE/06 will highlight convergences between the concept of Enaction and the sciences of complexity and provide new insights, through the prism of ENACTIVE COMPLEXITY, about human interaction with multimodal interfaces.

October

25-27 October 2006: DGCI'2006 - Conference on Discrete Geometry for Computer Imagery; Szeged, Hungary
23-26 October 2006: IWFHR - Workshop on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition; La Baule, France
8-11 October 2006: ICIP IEEE International Conference on Image Processing; Atlanta, GA, USA
1 October 2006: ABiALS 2006 - Workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems - Organised by the project partner in MindRaces - in association with the SAB 2006 Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior; Rome, Italy

September

30 September 2006: ABiALS 2006 - The 3rd Workshop on Anticipatory Behavior in Adaptive Learning Systems; Rome, Italy; This workshop, co-organised by one partner in the EU-funded project MindRaces and held in association with the conference Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2006), is designed to encourage interdisciplinary research on anticipatory behavior in animals, animats, and artificial intelligence systems.
27-30 September 2006: ISPRS Symposium on Geospatial Databases for Sustainable Development; Goa, India
26-28 September 2006: VIE Visual Information Engineering; Bangalore, India
25-29 September 2006: ECCS '06: European Conference on Complex Systems 2006; Oxford, UK; Modelling and understanding the dynamics of complex systems remains one of the major challenges for modern science. ECCS ?06, encouraging the interdisciplinary development of a new science of complex systems, is the second in an annual series of conferences organised by the new European Complex Systems Society. The European Commission is providing financial support for the conference under FP6.
25-29 September 2006: SAB'06 - The 9th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (From Animals to Animats); Rome, Italy; The objective of this interdisciplinary conference is to bring together researchers in computer science, artificial intelligence, alife, control, robotics, neurosciences, ethology, evolutionary biology, and related fields so as to further our understanding of the behaviors and underlying mechanisms that allow natural and artificial animals to adapt and survive in uncertain environments.
25-27 September 2006: ISPRS Commission V Symposium - Image Engineering and Vision Metrology; Dresden (Germany)
20-22 September 2006: EpiRob 2006 - 6th International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems); Paris, France; The Epigenetic Robotics annual workshop has established itself as a place where original research combining developmental sciences, neuroscience, biology, and cognitive robotics and artificial intelligence is being presented. Organisers and participants this year include researchers involved in the EU-funded projects in the area of Artificial Cognitive Systems.
19-22 September 2006: PCV 2006 Commission III Symposium - Photogrammetric Computer Vision; Bonn, Germany
6-8 September 2006: RO-MAN 06 - The 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication; Hertfordshire, UK; IEEE RO-MAN 06 provides a forum for an interdisciplinary exchange for researchers dedicated to advancing knowledge in the field of human-robot interaction and communication.
1-4 September 2006: Conference on Mathematical Neuroscience; Sant Julià de Lòria, Andorra

August

28 August - 01 September 2006: ECAI 2006 ? European Conference on Artificial Intelligence; Riva del Garda (Trento), Italy
20-24 August 2006: ICPR Conference on Pattern Recognition; Hong Kong
16-18 August 2006: 2006 International Workshop on Cognitive Robotics, Intelligence and Control; Windsor, UK; The workshop is supported by the US National Science Foundation and the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and brings together internationally leading researchers in the field of cognitive robotics and cognitive control. Attendees include researchers involved in the EU-funded projects in the area of Artificial Cognitive Systems.

July

30 July - 03 August 2006: ACM SIGGRAPH; Boston, MA, USA
26-29 July 2006: CogSci 2006: The 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society; Vancouver, BC, Canada; This year the conference will highlight the subject of learning: tackling both implicit and explicit processes and the emerging learning sciences. There will be a day of tutorials and workshops just before the conference itself, including an ICCS Symposium Toward Social Mechanisms of Android Science.
16-21 July 2006: WCCI IEEE World Congress on Computation Intelligence; Vancouver, BC, Canada
3 July 2006: 1st euCognition Six-Monthly Meeting; Vienna, Austria; The first six-monthly meeting for members of the EU-funded European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems
17-26 July 2006: Veni, Vidi, Vici '06 - the 1st RobotCub Summer School; Ventimiglia, Italy; The aim of this school is to consolidate and disseminate skills in software engineering for humanoid robots - how to achieve modularity and code reuse in software, maximizing the time spent actually doing research, and facilitating collaboration across robot projects. RobotCub is the EU-funded project in the area of Artificial Cognitive Systems studying cognition through robotics. Along the way, it creates a completely open design for a humanoid robot - open hardware, open software, open mind. The hardware designs and software are free and open source.
16-20 July 2006: AAAI-06 Conference on Artificial Intelligence
IAAI-06 Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence; Boston, Massachusetts, USA
16-17 July 2006: CogRob2006 - The 5th International Cognitive Robotics Workshop; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Held in conjunction with The 21st National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-06), this workshop aims at bringing together researchers involved in all aspects of the theory and implementation of cognitive robots, and discussing current work and future directions.
13-15 July 2006: AI@50 - Artificial Intelligence at 50! (Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Artificial Intelligence at Dartmouth College, 1956-2006); Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
12-14 July 2006: SAM IEEE Workshop on Sensor Array and Multi-channel Processing; Waltham, MA, USA
10-14 July 2006: CMPI-2006 Campus Multidisciplinar en Percepción e Inteligencia; Albacete, Spain
9-14 July 2006: 50th Anniversary Summit of Artificial Intelligence; Monte Verita, Switzerland; The summit, organised by ASAI50, will review and analyse the fundamental changes since 1956 when the term 'Artificial Intelligence' (AI) was coined. It will combine presentations of top scientists, exchange on the state of the art, and speculation about the future of AI. Participants include researchers involved in the EC-funded CogSys projects and Head of Unit Cognition Ms Maloney as a panellist.
9-12 July 2006: ICME IEEE International Conference on Multimedia & Expo; Toronto, Canada
6-8 July 2006: Workshop on Information Theory, Neurobiology and Cognition; Leipzig, Germany; The workshop, organised by Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences and supported by euCognition, provides for PhD students and researchers in a very intensive 3-day program accessible introduction to the state of the art in information theory, neurobiology, and the theory of cognition and exploration of new scientific links between those fields.
5-8 July 2006: 2nd IC-SCCE - 2nd International Conference "From Scientific Computing to Computational Engineering"; Athens, Greece
3-4 July 2006: ESG2006 - External Symbol Grounding Workshop; Plymouth, UK; The workshop brings together linguists, psychologists, social biologists, cognitive neuroscientists, philosophers, computer scientists, and roboticists, studying language as a dynamic cognitive process. This year's workshop is supported by euCognition, the EU-funded project in the area of Artificial Cognitive Systems.

June

26 June - 02 July 2006: The First SPARK Brainstorming Week; Catania, Italy; The brainstorming week brings together the SPARK project partners with the aim to test and optimise strategies, methodologies, algorithms and hardware for action-oriented perception on the already available robot prototype.
20-23 June 2006: AIIDE-06 - Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference; Marina del Rey, California, USA
19-21 June 2006: CVPR IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; New York, NY, USA
14-16 June 2006: 3DPVT International symposium on 3D Data Processing, Visualization and Transmission; Chapel Hill, NC, USA
5-9 June 2006: Dagstuhl Seminar Nº 06231: Towards Affordance-Based Robot Control; Dagstuhl, Germany; Initiated by the EU funded project MACS that explores the concept of affordances for the design and implementation of autonomous mobile robots acting goal-directedly in a dynamic environment. (An affordance is a resource or support that the environment offers an agent for action, and that the agent can directly perceive and employ.)
1-3 June 2006: ICCCC 2006 - International Conference on Computers, Communications & Control; Oradea, Romania

May

28 May - 06 June 2006: 6th Czech-Slovak Workshop on Cognition and Artificial Life; T?eš?, Czech Republic; The workshop with a long tradition provides the Czech and Slovak experts with opportunities to present and share their research in the field of cognition, artificial life, and AI. This year's workshop is supported by euCognition, the EU-funded project in the area of Artificial Cognitive Systems, with the objective to promote EU research programme activities to the regional professional community level and to stimulate the interest in participating in these programmes.
23-27 May 2006: ICEIS International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems; Paphos, Cyprus
16-19 May 2006: AUTOMATICA 2006 - 2nd International Trade Fair for Automation: Assembly, Robotics, Vision; Munich, Germany
15-19 May 2006: 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation; Orlando, Florida, USA
15-17 May 2006: International Symposium on Robotics ISR 2006 and 4th German Conference on Robotics Robotik 2006; Munich, Germany
14-19 May 2006: ICASSP - IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing; Toulouse, France
7-13 May 2006: ECCV2006 - 9th European Conference on Computer Vision; Graz, Austria; Contact

April

20 April 2006: Perceptual Cognition Workshop: Overview of Active Vision by researchers with different backgrounds (cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, biology), some of whom are involved in EC-funded CogSys projects; Maastricht, The Netherlands
12-13 April 2006: CogSys II Conference (to share the progress of EU funded projects in the area of cognitive systems); Nijmegen, The Netherlands
10-12 April 2006: EuroGP - EvoCOP conferences and 8 EvoWorkshops on Evolutionary Computation in Image Analysis and Signal Processing; Budapest, Hungary
10-12 April 2006: F&G06 IEEE Face and Gesture Recognition Conference; Southampton, UK
3-6 April 2006: AISB'06: Adaptation in Artificial and Biological Systems; Bristol, UK
3-4 April 2006: Grand Challenge 5: Architecture of Brain and Mind: Symposium at AISB'06 on UKCRC Grand Challenge 5, supported by Projects COSY and euCognition; Bristol, UK

March

27-29 March 2006: AAAI 2005 Spring Symposium Series; Stanford University, California, USA
26-28 March 2006: SSIAI Southwest Symposium on Image Analysis and Interpretation; Denver, CO, USA
25-29 March 2006: IEEE VR - Virtual Reality; Alexandria, Virginia, USA
16-18 March 2006: EUROS-06 European Robotics Symposium; Palermo, Italy
7 March 2006: Information Event on Advanced Robotics - to provide information on the IST Advanced Robotics Call 6, familiarize potential proposers with FP6 instruments, promote synergies across potential proposers, and inspire through key-note speeches; Brussels, Belgium

February

1-3 February 2006: APVIS Asia Pacific Symposium on Information Visualization; Tokyo, Japan
5-10 February 2006: AIC Annual Interdisciplinary Conference; Jackson Hole, Wyoming
13-15 February 2006: DAS Document Analysis Systems; Nelson, New Zealand
13-16 February 2006: AIA Artificial Intelligence and Applications; Innsbruck, Austria
15-17 February 2006: SPPRA - IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications; Innsbruck, Austria
16-17 February 2006: euCognition Inaugural Meeting - Seminal Event of the European Network for the Advancement of Artificial Cognitive Systems (FP6 project); Nice, France
23-24 February 2006: ICCA2006 - 4th International Conference on Computer Applications; Yangon, Myanmar
22-24 February 2006: Eurographics Italian Chapter 2006; Catania, Italy
25-28 February 2006: VISAPP International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications; Setúbal, Portugal

January

26-27 January 2006: Bio-ADIT 2006 - Workshop on Biologically Inspired Approaches to Advanced Information Technology; Osaka, Japan
16-18 January 2006: Bayesian Cognition - International workshop on probabilistic models of perception, inference, reasoning, decision, action, learning and neural processing; Paris, France
15-20 January 2006: Dagstuhl Seminar Nº 06031: Organic Computing - Controlled Emergence; Dagstuhl, Germany
15-19 January 2006: IS&T/SPIE Symposium on Electronic Imaging; San Jose, California, USA
13-16 January 2006: ACCV Asian Conference on Computer Vision; Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
5-7 January 2006: IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision Systems; New York, NY, USA
5-7 January 2006: ICBA International Conference on Biometrics; Hong Kong

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