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11th Conference Toward Autonomous Robotic Systems (TAROS’2010)
Posted by ashley on Tuesday, July 27 @ 12:24:35 BST (76 reads)
Topic Conferences & Workshops
| Tuesday 31 August 2010 - Thursday 2 September 2010
Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
www.taros.org.uk
TAROS is a single track conference aimed at the presentation and discussion of the latest results and methods in autonomous robotics research and applications. Taros offers a friendly environment for robotics researchers and industry to take stock and plan future progress.
Plenary Speakers:
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Plenary presentations will be given by Giorgio Metta (IIT, Genoa) on Humanoid Robotics and Geoff Pegman (R.U. Robots, Manchester) on Personal and Service Robotics.
Additional Features:
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- Industrial exhibition
- Industry Workshop on an outlook on personal and service robotics
- Annual meeting of the Virtual Research Centre in Personal Robotics
Please consult the conference’s website for more details: www.taros.org.uk
Programme:
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The full programme is available on the Conference website: www.taros.org.uk
Submissions of papers have been invited in any of the following topics, and in related areas:
* Advanced applications of autonomous robots (industrial and research)
* Advanced materials
* Advanced medical robotics, robots for surgery
* Analysis of robot-environment interaction
* Applications development
* Assistive Robotics
* Autonomous assembly robotics
* Biologically inspired robotics
* Cognitive robotics
* Collective robots
* Developmental robotics
* Hardware issues, devices and techniques, advanced sensor and actuator hardware
* Human-Robot Interaction and Interfaces
* Learning and adaptation
* Long-term Interaction and Operation
* Modeling and analysis of robot models
* Navigation, localization, map building and path planning
* Personal robotics
* Robot autonomy
* Robot vision, sensing and perception
* Robot control architectures
* Robots in education, the arts and entertainment
* Service robotics
* Space and planetary robotics
Travel grants for the Virtual Research Centre in Personal Robotics:
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The annual meeting of the Virtual Research Centre in Personal Robotics will take place during the Conference. Members of the VRC will be able claim partial reimbursements of their travel expenses. See: http://vrcpersonalrobotics.org
Location:
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Plymouth is a friendly historical sea-side town located in the South-West of England. Its University hosts a dynamic and highly rated research community in Robotics and Neural systems. Their robots will be demonstrated at the conference.
Looking forwards to seeing you in Plymouth.
Guido Bugmann & Tony Belpaeme (Co-chairs).
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Call for papers : ARCS-10, USA, July 2010
Posted by ashley on Monday, May 17 @ 07:52:03 BST (193 reads)
Topic Conferences & Workshops
| The 2010 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) (website: http://www.PromoteResearch.org ) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. ARCS-10 is an important event in the areas of Automation, Robotics, Control Systems and related areas. The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10).
MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10.
• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10)
• International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10)
• International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10)
• International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10)
• International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10)
• International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10)
• International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10)
• International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10)
• International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10)
• International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10)
MULTICONF-10 will be held at Imperial Swan Hotel and Suites. It is a full-service resort that puts you in the middle of the fun! Located 1/2 block south of the famed International Drive, the hotel is just minutes from great entertainment like Walt Disney World® Resort, Universal Studios and Sea World Orlando. Guests can enjoy free scheduled transportation to these theme parks, as well as spacious accommodations, outdoor pools and on-site dining — all situated on 10 tropically landscaped acres. Here, guests can experience a full-service resort with discount hotel pricing in Orlando.
We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website www.PromoteResearch.org for more details.
Sincerely,
John Edward
jeedward@yahoo.com
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TAROS’2010
Posted by ashley on Wednesday, May 12 @ 13:55:22 BST (203 reads)
Topic Conferences & Workshops
| 11th Conference Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems
Tuesday 31 August 2010 - Thursday 2 September 2010
Plymouth, Devon, United Kingdom
www.taros.org.uk
Overview:
TAROS is a single track conference aimed at the presentation and discussion of the latest results and methods in autonomous robotics research and applications. Taros offers a friendly environment for robotics researchers and industry to take stock and plan future progress.
Plenary Speakers:
Plenary presentations will be given by Giorgio Metta (IIT, Genoa) on Humanoid Robotics and Geoff Pegman (R.U. Robots, Manchester) on Personal and Service Robotics.
Call for contributions:
TAROS-10 welcomes submissions from senior researchers and research students alike, and will specifically provide opportunities for research students and young research scientists to present their work to the scientific community. An indicative list of topics is provided below. A best paper price will be awarded.
Special Session on Personal and Service Robotics:
Submission are encouraged in this area of rapid growth, e.g. on user needs and experiences, technical progress and bottlenecks, and all relevant forms of scientific developments.
Industry Workshop:
An extra half day has been added to this year’s edition, to host an industrial symposium on developments in service robotics, on 2 September 2010. Interested companies so far include Engineered Arts, Elumotion, Merlin Systems, RUR Robots, Swarm Systems. Please consult the conference’s website for more details.
www.taros.org.uk
List of topics:
Submissions of papers are invited in any of the following topics, and in related areas:
* Advanced applications of autonomous robots (industrial and research)
* Advanced materials
* Advanced medical robotics, robots for surgery
* Analysis of robot-environment interaction
* Applications development
* Assistive Robotics
* Autonomous assembly robotics
* Biologically inspired robotics
* Cognitive robotics
* Collective robots
* Developmental robotics
* Hardware issues, devices and techniques, advanced sensor and actuator hardware
* Human-Robot Interaction and Interfaces
* Learning and adaptation
* Long-term Interaction and Operation
* Modeling and analysis of robot models
* Navigation, localization, map building and path planning
* Personal robotics
* Robot autonomy
* Robot vision, sensing and perception
* Robot control architectures
* Robots in education, the arts and entertainment
* Service robotics
* Space and planetary robotics
Extended deadline for submission: 31May 2010.
Submission instructions are given at www.taros.org.uk.
Travel grants for the Virtual Research Centre in Personal Robotics:
The annual meeting of the Virtual Research Centre in Personal Robotics will take place during the Conference. Members of the VRC will be able claim partial reimbursements of their travel expenses. See: http://vrcpersonalrobotics.org.
Location:
Plymouth is a friendly historical sea-side town located in the South-West of England. Its University hosts a dynamic and highly rated research community in Robotics and Neural systems. Their robots will be demonstrated at the conference.
Looking forwards to seeing you in Plymouth!
Guido Bugmann & Tony Belpaeme (Co-chairs)
Guido Bugmann, PhD
Reader in Intelligent Systems
School of Mathematics and Computing
University of Plymouth, PSQ A309
Drake Circus
Plymouth PL4 8AA, United Kingdom
tel: +44 (0)1752 58 62 15
fax: +44 (0)1752 58 63 00
email: gbugmann@plymouth.ac.uk
web: http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/soc/staff/guidbugm/bugmann.htm
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Call for papers: ARCS-10, USA, July 2010
Posted by ashley on Monday, March 15 @ 07:19:18 GMT (313 reads)
Topic Conferences & Workshops
| The 2010 International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10) (website: www.PromoteResearch.org) will be held during 12-14 of July 2010 in Orlando, FL, USA. ARCS-10 is an important event in the areas of Automation, Robotics, Control Systems and related areas. The conference will be held at the same time and location where several other major international conferences will be taking place. The conference will be held as part of 2010 multi-conference (MULTICONF-10).
MULTICONF-10 will be held during July 12-14, 2010 in Orlando, Florida, USA. The primary goal of MULTICONF is to promote research and developmental activities in computer science, information technology, control engineering, and related fields. Another goal is to promote the dissemination of research to a multidisciplinary audience and to facilitate communication among researchers, developers, practitioners in different fields. The following conferences are planned to be organized as part of MULTICONF-10.
• International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition (AIPR-10)
• International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Control Systems (ARCS-10)
• International Conference on Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, Genomics and Chemoinformatics (BCBGC-10)
• International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks (CCN-10)
• International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems and Web Technologies (EISWT-10)
• International Conference on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS-10)
• International Conference on Information Security and Privacy (ISP-10)
• International Conference on Image and Video Processing and Computer Vision (IVPCV-10)
• International Conference on Software Engineering Theory and Practice (SETP-10)
• International Conference on Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (TMFCS-10))
MULTICONF-10 will be held at Imperial Swan Hotel and Suites. It is a full-service resort that puts you in the middle of the fun! Located 1/2 block south of the famed International Drive, the hotel is just minutes from great entertainment like Walt Disney World® Resort, Universal Studios and Sea World Orlando. Guests can enjoy free scheduled transportation to these theme parks, as well as spacious accommodations, outdoor pools and on-site dining — all situated on 10 tropically landscaped acres. Here, guests can experience a full-service resort with discount hotel pricing in Orlando.
We invite draft paper submissions. Please see the website www.PromoteResearch.org for more details.
Sincerely,
John Edward
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AI-2010 Cambridge, UK, December 2010. First Call
Posted by ashley on Sunday, March 07 @ 21:41:04 GMT (548 reads)
Topic Conferences & Workshops
| Call for Papers and Posters
AI-2010: Cambridge, UK, December 14th-16th 2010
Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (an ECCAI Member Society) .
The leading series of UK-based international conferences on Artificial Intelligence and one of the longest running AI conference series in
Europe.
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS
www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2010/
*** DEADLINE FOR PAPER/POSTER SUBMISSION: TUESDAY 1st
JUNE 2010 ***
AI-2010 is the thirtieth SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence.
The scope of the conference comprises the whole range of AI technologies and application areas. AI-2010 reviews recent technical advances in AI technologies and shows how these advances have
been applied to solve business problems. Key features are:
- Papers will be published in book form by Springer.
- The Technical Stream presents the best of recent developments in AI, covering a wide range of technical areas.
- The Application Stream is the largest annual showcase in Europe of real applications using AI technology.
- The best papers will be reprinted in a special issue of the international journal 'Knowledge Based Systems'.
- The Poster Session is a forum for disseminating new developments and latest work in progress, especially suited to MSc and PhD students.
- Prizes for Best Paper in each stream and Best Poster.
- The programme also includes tutorials and workshops to provide greater depth in selected topics. (These are free to delegates of the
main conference, but separate registration is also available.)
- The Machine Intelligence (MI) competition exhibits working systems that are a significant step towards machine intelligence.
- UKCBR-10, the 15th UK CBR Workshop, will be co-located with AI-2010.
- FAIRS-2010, the fourth annual forum for AI research students will immediately precede the AI-2010 conference at Peterhouse College on
December 13th, 2010. The aim of FAIRS is to support student members of the AI community providing advice and feedback on their research
plans and work. This event is free of charge for research students and no conference registration is required.
- The conference qualifies for the IEE and BCS CPD schemes.
- In addition to the formal sessions, the conference programme includes a welcome reception and a Gala Dinner.
AI-2010 offers a valuable opportunity to keep up to date with developments in AI and to share experiences in the practical issues of developing AI systems.
IMPORTANT DATES
- Paper/Poster Submission: Tuesday 1st June 2010
- Notification of Acceptance: Monday 19th July 2010
- Camera Ready Paper: Monday 30th August 2010
CONTRIBUTIONS
Contributions are invited in the form of papers of up to fourteen A4 pages presenting original work in AI. Contributions may be submitted to either of two streams for oral presentation, or a parallel poster session (six pages maximum).
Technical Stream
Areas of interest include (but are not restricted to): knowledge engineering; semantic web; constraint satisfaction; intelligent agents; machine learning; model based reasoning; verification and
validation of AI systems; natural language understanding; speech-enabled systems; case based reasoning; neural networks; genetic
algorithms; data mining and knowledge discovery in databases; knowledge representation, inference and reasoning; robotics and pervasive computing; qualitative and temporal reasoning; knowledge
management; AI languages and environments; robotics and pervasive computing.
Application Stream
Case studies are welcomed describing the application of AI to real-world problems. Papers in recent years have covered all application domains, including commerce, manufacturing and
government, and every major AI technique. In addition to case studies and specific applications of AI, we would welcome papers that discuss
issues such as managing the transfer from research to production of AI-based products.
Papers are selected to highlight critical areas of success (and failure) and to present the benefits and lessons of value to other developers. Submitted papers should make these points clear.
Guidance notes for Application Stream authors are available from the website.
Poster Session
The Poster Session is intended for the presentation of work which meets the high standards of the conference, but which is more topical and preliminary than the work presented in the main two streams. It is an excellent forum for disseminating new developments and latest
work in progress, especially suited to MSc and PhD students. Poster papers will be included as short papers (maximum 6 pages) in the proceedings volumes. Papers submitted to the Technical and
Application streams will automatically be considered as posters if they fall short of the standard for oral presentation in full form.
Publication of Papers
Papers accepted for presentation at the conference will be published in book form by Springer.
- The books will be prepared from camera-ready copy supplied by the authors of accepted papers.
- Formatting specifications for the proceedings have been provided by the publisher and are available from the conference website.
- Authors will retain copyright in all papers published in the two volumes of proceedings.
- The best six refereed papers in each stream will be reprinted as a special issue of the international journal Knowledge Based Systems.
Submission of Papers
Papers must be prepared in either Microsoft Word or Latex. Initial versions of papers should be submitted in PDF format only and uploaded to the conference website by TUESDAY JUNE 1st 2010 at
the latest. There are revised Word macro and Latex style files compared with previous years.
- At least one author of each accepted paper must register for and attend the conference to present it in person, for the paper to be published.
- Presenting authors will be asked to register for the conference at the discounted speakers' rate when they return the final camera-ready printed versions of their papers.
Tutorials & workshops
The Conference Committee invites proposals for tutorials and workshops to be presented on the first day of the conference. These should be
directed in the first instance to the Tutorial/Workshop Organiser.
Prizes
There are sponsored prizes (a trophy plus 500 pounds) for the best paper submitted in each stream and a trophy plus a cash prize for the
best poster, awarded on the basis of delegate voting. There is also a trophy plus a cash prize for the best refereed paper written by a student.
Machine Intelligence Competition
A permanent trophy awarded for one year plus a cash prize will be awarded to the winner of the annual machine intelligence competition. This prize will be awarded to the working system that is considered to be the most significant step forward towards Machine Intelligence on display at the competition.
All further information including details of the conference committee, program committees, paper format and uploading instructions is given on the conference website.
ALL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE SENT BY EMAIL TO THE CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT: sgai-conference@bcs.org.uk
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IET Symposium on Humanoid Robotics
Posted by ashley on Monday, January 18 @ 09:19:58 GMT (696 reads)
Topic Conferences & Workshops
| London, 8th March 2010
A 1-day Symposium on Humanoid Robotics and an evening lecture by Prof Darwin Caldwell (Director, Italian Institute of Technology - IIT, Genoa) is being organised by the IET in London on 8th March 2010.
The 1-day Symposium will include speakers from a range of UK Universities (Aberystwyth, Bristol, Edinburgh, Hertfordshire, Imperial, Manchester, Plymouth & Sheffield) as well as 4 talks from leading researchers at IIT and more details can be found on the IET website list below. Topics covered will include mechatronic design, sensors, control and cognitive reasoning. It is also planned to include an exhibition focussing on the iCub humanoid robot which will cover the latest developments being done both at IIT and at UK Universities.
The free Evening Lecture will be given by Prof Darwin Caldwell who will explore the history of humanoid development from the early 1970s to the most advanced current systems and future possibilities. This will focus on the mechatronic development of the iCub (a child sized (4 years old) humanoid) before considering the design of a (as yet unnamed) humanoid that introduces a number of new technical innovations. The lecture will outline future advances in the mechatronics (and cognitive aspects of the humanoids) that yet need to be achieved. There will be a brief consideration of the social, ethical and economic viability of humanoids.
To register for the 1-day Symposium on Humanoid Robotics (£60), or find out more details, see: www.theiet.org/events/2010/humanoid-robot.cfm
To register for the Evening Lecture by Prof Darwin Caldwell (free), or find out more details, see:
www.theiet.org/local/uk/london/icub.cfm
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IFIP AI 2010 Brisbane, Australia, September 2010
Posted by ashley on Thursday, January 07 @ 16:04:30 GMT (845 reads)
Topic Conferences & Workshops
| IFIP AI 2010: The Third IFIP International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Theory and Practice
Brisbane, Australia, September 20th-23rd 2010
www.ifiptc12.org/ifipai2010
IFIP AI 2010 is one of the constituent parts of the IFIP World Computer Congress. The conference will follow the same format as the highly successful IFIP AI 2008 at the IFIP WCC 2008 in Milan, Italy. For details of the World Computer Congress see www.wcc2010.org.
Papers describing original work are invited in the areas listed below or other areas of Artificial Intelligence for oral presentation at IFIP AI 2010. Acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and
originality and the practical value of the work.
Papers of no more than 10 pages should be submitted following the publisher's prescribed format (for details see the conference web
site). Final versions may be submitted in either Word or Latex format but at this stage all papers should be submitted as PDF files. The
proceedings will be published by Springer in the IFIP AICT (Advances in Information and Communication Technology) Series.
Further information is available from the conference website at www.ifiptc12.org/ifipai2010
Papers should be uploaded via the conference website or directly at the paper submission site at
www.conferenceexpert.org.uk/?conf=ifipai2010.
IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: January 31st, 2010
Notification of acceptance: April 20th, 2010
Camera-ready deadline: May 15th, 2010
Conference: September 20th-23rd, 2010
CONFERENCE CHAIR
Tharam Dillon, Curtin University, Australia
tharam.dillon@cbs.curtin.edu.au
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
max.bramer@port.ac.uk
PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
A full list of members is available on the conference website.
TOPICS:
* Industrial Applications of Artificial Intelligence
* Intelligent Decision Support Systems
* Integration of AI with other Technologies
* Evaluation of AI Systems
* AI Languages, Programming Techniques and Tools
* Knowledge Acquisition
* Expert and Knowledge-based Systems
* Fuzzy Logic and Plausible Inference
* Neural Networks
* Evolutionary Computation and Algorithms
* Speech and Natural Language Interfaces
* Machine Vision
* Intelligent Information Retrieval
* Genetic Algorithms
* Planning and Scheduling
* Bayesian Networks and Stochastic Reasoning
* Evolutionary Programming
* Learning and Adaptive Systems
* Intelligent Agents
* Distributed AI Algorithms, Techniques and Applications
* Distributed AI Systems and Architectures
* Intelligent Tutoring Systems
* Structured and Unstructured Data Mining
* Case-Based Reasoning Systems
* Hardware and Robotics
* Social Impact, Acceptance and Implications of AI
* Intelligent Systems Engineering and Design Methodologies
* Ontologies and Semantic Web
* Knowledge and Information Management
* Business Process Management and Enterprise Portals
* Organisational Memory Knowledge Systems
* Inter-organisational KM portals
* Knowledge Management, E-Learning and Enterprise Portals
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Major 2010 event - February 3-5
Posted by ashley on Thursday, January 07 @ 08:39:40 GMT (734 reads)
Topic Conferences & Workshops
| The BCS Computer Arts Society SG is pleased to announce a special three-day event to launch our Spring 2010 programme. It begins on 3 February with a one-day symposium at the BCS including a free public talk that evening by keynote speaker Brian Reffin Smith and continues with a two-day conference at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Note that the Kinetica Art Fair will also be on in London from 4-7 February:
www.kinetica-artfair.com/
3 February - Ideas Before Their Time 9-6pm at BCS London HQ followed by a CAS talk by Brian Reffin Smith at 7:00
4-5 February - Decoding the Digital - a 2 day conference at the V&A
The symposium and conference both need to be booked in advance. The CAS evening talk is open to the public and free but an RSVP is necessary. And sorry this is such a long post!
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Wednesday 3 February 9:00 - 6:00 & 7:00 - 8:30 pm
Ideas Before Their Time - Connecting the past and the present in Computer Art
BCS London HQ, First Floor, The Davidson Building, 5 Southampton Street, London, WC2E 7HA.
Map
In conjunction with the Computer Arts Society, the CAT Project (Computer Art & Technocultures) is presenting a symposium at the British Computer Society in Covent Garden.
Many intriguing concepts have emerged in Computer Art over the past 50 years. Some have been brought to light in the archives examined by the CAT and CACHe Projects. Speakers from all areas of Computer Art, including practitioners, curators and historians, will discuss the past, present and future of this area.
Go to www.technocultures.org.uk/symposium.html to view the
programme and book a place.
6:00 Drinks Reception
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6:30 for 7:00 - Public Talk
BCS London HQ - as above
Free but RSVP necessary to Paul Brown
Speaker: Brian Reffin Smith
Title: Post Computer Art ‹ Ontological Undecidability and the Cat with Paint on its Paws.
It is argued that an active re-visiting of computer based artworks from the last 60 or so years is essential to any progress of today's work towards an activity that pushes at the frontiers of contemporary art.
We need to open up the history, works, techniques and discourses of computer based art to enable a revolution to occur, that of rendering the art problematic and Œdifficult; then new solutions
will emerge. It is suggested that whilst conceptual art was busy doing just this, computer based art was rushing madly in the opposite direction, trying in a reformist manner to make things easier, simpler.
Derrida, ŒPataphysics, Schrödinger's cat and the living dead may well be brought into play.
Brian Reffin Smith is a writer, artist, performer and teacher. He was a pioneer of computer-based conceptual art, with the aim of trying to resist technological determinism and Œstate of the art¹
technology, which might merely produce Œstate of the technology¹ art. He is a French civil servant, having been invited to work for their Ministry of Culture.
Smith, who won the first-ever Prix Ars Electronica, the Golden Nike, in Linz in 1987, is a Regent of the College of 'Pataphysics, Paris, holding the Chair of Catachemistry and Speculative Metallurgy. He is Professeur, École Nationale Supérieure d'Art, Bourges, France.
Areas of work, research, teaching and performance include theidea of the philosophical Zombie in art and elsewhere, and the détournement or Œhijacking¹ of systems, mechanisms, programs etc. to make art.
He became a Zombie, after a short illness, in 1999.
www.zombiepataphysics.blogspot.com
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Thursday 4 & Friday 5 February
10.00-17.30 each day
Decoding the Digital
Hochhauser Auditorium, Sackler Centre, Victoria & Albert Museum
A rare opportunity to hear a dialogue between contemporary digital practice and historical collections within the world of digital and computer generated art and design. Speakers include
artist Frieder Nake and writer Edward Shanken, with theorists
Charlie Gere and Beryl Graham. There will be an in-conversation between Paul Brown and his son Daniel Brown. Other contributors include the collector Michael Spalter, the writer and artist Anne
Morgan Spalter, plus Louise Shannon (V&A) and Shane Walter (Director, onedotzero), co-curators of the V&A exhibition Decode, and Douglas Dodds, one of the curators of the V&A display Digital
Pioneers.
£50, £40 concessions, £10 students for two days
£25, £20 concessions, £5 students for one day
Further details and bookings:
www.vam.ac.uk/activ_events/courses/conferences/index.html#decoding
In collaboration with Birkbeck College, with support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.
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The CAS Spring 2010 programme continues:
2 March - Ron Chrisley & Joel Parthmore at the London Knowledge Lab.
6 April - Tina Gonsalves at the London Knowledge Lab.
4 May - visit to Goldsmith's College Maths & Art Archive organised by Janis Jefferies
14-16 June - Computational Aesthetics CAe 2010 at the BCS co-sponsored by BCS CAS SG and Eurographics
14-16 July - Electronic Visualisation and the Arts EVA 2010 at BCS sponsored by BCS CAS SG
CAS - supporting the computer arts for over 40 years
The BCS CAS SG is a British Computer Society Specialist Group
www.computer-arts-society.org
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SGAI launches ‘Real AI Day’: December 17th 2009
Posted by ashley on Monday, November 30 @ 11:35:41 GMT (823 reads)
Topic Conferences & Workshops
| The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (SGAI) has announced the first in a new series of one-day ‘SGAI Real Artificial Intelligence days’, with a strong practical focus aimed at business and industry.
This is a low-cost event: the standard delegate rate is £75 (+VAT), with a special student rate of £50 (+VAT). A discounted group rate of £50 (+VAT) per delegate is also available for groups of three or more delegates.
The event will feature talks from leading exponents and case studies outlining practical applications of AI from a wide range of application domains. There will be speakers from manufacturing,
semantic search, medical imaging, autonomous vehicles, policing, games and simulation.
The first ‘Real AI Day’ will take place on Thursday 17th December 2009, at Peterhouse College, Cambridge. Plenty of time has been allowed in the programme for discussion and the event will close with a networking drinks reception.
This is an opportunity for those in business and industry to find out what is happening in AI and for academics and students working in AI
to find out what is happening in the ‘real world’ of AI applications.
Full details can be found at www.bcs-sgai.org/realai2009. The event
will be held in conjunction with BCS SGAI's annual conference, AI-2009.
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AI-2009: Cambridge, 15th - 17th December 2009
Posted by ashley on Wednesday, November 11 @ 09:18:32 GMT (1146 reads)
Topic Conferences & Workshops
| Organised by BCS SGAI: The British Computer Society Specialist Group on Artificial Intelligence (an ECCAI Member Society)
INVITATION TO REGISTER
www.bcs-sgai.org/ai2009/
AI-2009 offers the perfect opportunity for you to update your knowledge of current AI developments and applications, and to meet with leading AI practitioners in a relaxed social environment. This year's conference brings technical papers on the latest developments in AI, presentations from industry practitioners with practical experience of applying AI in the real world, and a range of workshops - ideal for those seeking to expand and deepen their knowledge of a wide range of AI techniques. All this in the historic surroundings of Peterhouse, Cambridge's oldest college.
The BCS SGAI is pleased at announce that:
- Registration prices are held below AI-2004 levels
- Workshops are now FREE for those registering at the main conference
WORKSHOPS (15th December)
There is a preliminary day (Tuesday December 15th) devoted to half-day workshops on:
- Artificial Intelligence in Games
- Computational Optimisation
- Artificial Intelligence in Education
- Intelligent Systems in Accounting, Finance and Management
together with the 14th UK CBR Workshop (full day).
This day is included FREE for attendees of the main conference, but can be attended on its own at a special rate.
MAIN CONFERENCE
The main 2-day conference (Wednesday December 16th - Thursday December 17th) includes:
- Keynote lectures:
Professor Chris Bishop (Microsoft Research)on 'Third Generation Machine Intelligence'
Colin Cadas and Badr Haque (Rolls-Royce) on 'Whatever Happened to Expert Systems?'
- Technical stream papers on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, Reasoning, Data Mining and Machine Learning, Optimisation and Planning, and Knowledge Acquisition and Evolutionary Computation.
- Application stream papers on AI and Design, Commercial Applications of AI and other AI applications.
- Business and Industry Presentations with the theme of ‘Real Artificial Intelligence’.
- Poster sessions on emerging research and applications in intelligent systems.
- The eighth annual BCS prize competition for the best live demonstration of Progress Towards Machine Intelligence.
This year's conference will be held at Peterhouse College in Cambridge. In addition to the formal sessions, the conference programme includes a welcome reception and a Gala Dinner. Plenty of
time has been inserted into the programme to allow discussions with other delegates and time to make new contacts and renew old acquaintances.
AI-2009 offers a valuable opportunity to keep up to date with developments in AI and to share experiences in the practical issues of developing AI based systems.
Discounts are available for members of SGAI, AISB and other ECCAI member societies, students and also for members of NCAF.
CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
ALL CORRESPONDENCE SHOULD BE SENT BY EMAIL TO THE CONFERENCE SECRETARIAT: sgai-conference@bcs.org.uk
- Conference Chair: Dr. Miltos Petridis, University of Greenwich
- Local Arrangements Chair: Dr Frans Coenen, University of Liverpool
- Workshop Organiser: Prof. Adrian Hopgood, De Montfort University
- Treasurer: Rosemary Gilligan, University of Hertfordshire
- Poster Session Organiser: Dr Nirmalie Wiratunga, The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen
- Application Programme Chair: Richard Ellis, Stratum
- Deputy Application Programme Chair: Dr. Tony Allen, The Nottingham Trent University
- Technical Programme Chair: Professor Max Bramer, University of Portsmouth
- Deputy Technical Programme Chair: Dr Frans Coenen, University of Liverpool
- Research Student Liaison: Dr. Alice Kerly, University of Birmingham and Dr. Kirsty Bradbrook
- UK CBR Organiser: Dr. Miltos Petridis, University of Greenwich
- Paper Administrator: Bryony Bramer
- Conference Administrator: Rachel Browning, BCS
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