I found it took too much time to keep this up to date, and the initial motivation, to
collect evidence for research evaluation, is now no longer relevant as I am retired and
not included in the research assessment processes.
CONFERENCE, WORKSHOP, AND SEMINAR CONTRIBUTIONS
Latest First
Aaron Sloman
NOTE: 17 Jun 2012
This is a list of (mostly) invited talks/presentations/discussions
between 2001 and 2009, originally prepared in order to support our
departmental submission on research performance. I stopped updating
this document when it seemed no longer to be relevant. The up to
date list of presentations is available in
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/
Most of the item listed below are research presentations in academe
or industry.
A few are public presentations of a different kind, e.g.
Cafe Scientifique
presentations.
For each presentation a link is given to more detailed information
about its contents, and a downloadable (PDF) version of the
presentation. The more detailed information is collected in two
places
To be added
31st March - 1st April 2010: AIIB
Symposium
on AI-inspired Biology, at AISB10 conference.
2nd Feb 2010:
"If learning mathematics requires a teacher, where did the teachers come from?"
Nottingham University, LSRI
Talks already given
2009
- Fri 6th Nov 2009:
Presentation to Language and Cognition Seminar, School of Psychology
Why the ``hard'' problem
of consciousness is easy
and the ``easy'' problem hard.
(And how to make progress)
Also on
slideshare.net.
-
Mon 19th October, 2009: Talk at
Dagstuhl Seminar: From Form to Function
Possibilities between
form and function
Or between shape and affordances.
(Draft incomplete version. To be extended)
- Sat 12 Sept, 2009: Talk At
Metaphysics of Science Conference, Nottingham
Virtual Machines and the Metaphysics of Science
-
Fri 31st Jul 2009: CogSci'09 Amsterdam
What cognitive scientists need to know about virtual machines
-
Mon 20th July: Talk at
Open Source Schools "Unconference"
Slides (PDF)
Some thoughts and demos, on ways of using
computing for deep education on many topics.
As a change from teaching:
-
``useful'' skills (of various kinds),
-
uses of computing,
-
computer science
-
computer/software engineering.
-
Thu 11th June 2009: Talk to MIT - workshop on AI Heritage and
Future
http://stellar.mit.edu/S/project/aiheritage/
(Slides to be added later)
-
Wed 10th June 2009: Brown University, Providence, RI
Ontologies for vision in Baby Animals and Robots.
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#brown
-
Mon 1st June 2009: Talk to Mathematics Graduate Open Meeting.
Why (and how) did biological evolution produce mathematicians?
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#toddler
http://web.mat.bham.ac.uk/~treglowa/1-daymeeting
-
Friday 22nd May: Symposium on Margaret Boden's work,
Philosophy Department, Sussex University
What Has Life Got To Do With Mind? Or vice versa?
(Thoughts inspired by discussions with Margaret Boden.)
Presented at seminar on Margaret Boden's work.
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#maggie
-
6th May, 2009
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#toddlers
Departmental Seminar, Computer Science, University of York.
Grand Challenge 5 - Architecture of Brain and Mind: How to evolve,
and grow, young mathematicians.
A New Approach to Philosophy of Mathematics:
Design a young explorer, able to discover "toddler theorems"
Including an introduction to
Grand Challenge
5: Architecture of Brain and Mind
-
5th May 2009
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#simagent
Requirements for a toolkit for intelligent Robotic Design
Talk to IRLab meeting School of Computer science
-
23rd April 2009
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk68
Ontologies for baby animals and robots:
From "baby stuff" to the world of adult science.
Developmental AI
from a Kantian
Spring 2009 Pattern Recognition and Computer Vision Colloquium
Czech Technical University,
Center for Machine Perception
-
22nd April 2009
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#fet09
Future Human-Like Robots:
Requirements vs. Designs
Understand problems before you try to solve them
(Using iterated implementation if necessary)
Invited talk at:
Session on 'The Ultimate Robot'
part of
FET'09 in Prague, April 2009.
-
9th April 2009
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk68
Ontologies
for baby animals and robots
From "baby stuff" to the world of adult science: Developmental AI
from a Kantian
viewpoint.
Invited talk at
Workshop on Matching and
Meaning,
at
AISB'09 Edinburgh 9th April 2009.
-
8th April 2009
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#toddlers
CISA seminar, Informatics, Edinburgh
Why (and how) did biological evolution produce mathematicians?
A New Approach to Philosophy of Mathematics:
-
19th Jan 2009
Talk on Framework theories (slides to be made available) School of
Computer Science, Birmingham
2008
-
9th and 11th Dec 2008
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#toddler
Talk at Sussex COGS 9th December 2008 and in Birmingham psychology
12th December 2009.
Nick Hockings has kindly made a video of the Sussex talk available
here (in three resolutions):
http://exposureroom.com/members/NickHock.aspx/assets/abd0235e69f0410897906996c910b9fd/
Original title
A new approach to philosophy of mathematics: design a young
mathematically disposed explorer.
Revised title
A New Approach to
Philosophy of Mathematics:
Design a young explorer, able to
discover ``toddler theorems''
-
11th November 2008
Virtual Machines in Philosophy, Engineering & Biology
Presented at
Workshop on Philosophy and Engineering
Royal Academy of Engineering, London 10-12 November 2008
Extended
abstract (PDF).
-
1st-2nd November 2008 - two Talks at
Mind as
Machine
(Weekend Extra-mural Philosophy
Course, Rewley House, Oxford University 1st-2nd Nov 2008)
-
16th Oct and 21st October, 2008
Why virtual machines really matter -- for several disciplines
(Or, Why philosophers need to be robot designers)
-
Thursday 2nd October 2008
Presentation at
EU CogX
robotics project kickoff workshop in Portoroz Slovenia.
(Main slides to be added.)
Supplementary slides prepared after the event
Assembling bits of stuff
and bits of process,
in a baby robot's world
(A Kantian approach to robotics)
-
Sept 24th, London. Brief presentation on:
Understanding Brains and Minds: A
Truly Grand Challenge for Information
Science
Panel session at
BCS Visions
of Computer Science conference.
-
28-30 Jul 2008
Kantian Philosophy of Mathematics and Young Robots
Talk at
7th International Conference on Mathematical Knowledge Management
(PDF paper for proceedings)
-
13-14 July 2008
Varieties of Meta-cognition in
Natural and Artificial Systems
(Some pressures on design-space
from niche-space.)
Invited talk at
Workshop on
Meta-Reasoning: Thinking about Thinking
at AAAI'08,
Washington, 13-14 July 2008.
The paper for the proceedings is available at
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/papers/#tr0802
-
24th June 2008
Evolution, development and modelling of architectures for
intelligent organisms and robots.
(For Graduate School Seminar series,
Biosciences, on 24th June 2008).
-
9th June 2008
Talk on
Requirements for a Human-like Information Processing Architecture
that Builds Itself by Interacting with a Rich Environment
given at
Birmingham
Informatics CRN Workshop on Complexity and Critical Infrastructures
- Environment focus.
Modified version of talk given in May, below.
-
13th May 2008
Requirements for a Human-like Information Processing Architecture
that Builds Itself by Interacting with a Rich Environment
EXTENDED ABSTRACT for invited talk at Complexity
Conference (UIUC, 12-15 May 2008)
http://www.howhy.com/ucs2008/
Understanding Complex Systems
-
4th April 2008
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#aisb08
What designers of artificial companions need to understand about
biological ones.
Invited talk for 'public' session at:
AISB'08
Convention
-
25th February 2008:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/dag08
Understanding the functions of animal vision ---
What Are We Trying To Do:
How Do Logic And Probability Fit Into The Bigger Picture?
Presentation at
Dagstuhl Vision workshop
on Logic and Probability for Scene Interpretation
-
1 February 2008:
Talk to the Birmingham Vision Club:
A Generalised Gibsonian View of vision (GGV)
which gives a central role to perception of
processes and possible processes
in the environment, and how they relate to both
-
Action affordances, and
-
Epistemic affordances
Slides will be added after I have had time to polish them up a bit.
Part of the talk can be found in this experiment on speed of visual
perception:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/multipic-challenge.pdf
Many of the ideas were in
this talk given in May 2007.
-
21 January 2008:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#math-robot
Could a child robot grow up to be a mathematician and philosopher?
Talk at
Thinking about Mathematics and Science seminar
University of Liverpool
Abstract circulated in advance
2007
- 27 Nov 2007:
Talk at Sussex University.
Also 29 Nov 2007:
Talk in Birmingham University.
Both talks were on
Why symbol-grounding is both impossible and unnecessary, and why
theory-tethering is more powerful anyway.
(Introduction to key ideas of semantic models, implicit
definitions and symbol tethering through
theory tethering.)
- 10th November 2007
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk55
(PDF)
Why Some Machines May Need Qualia
and How They Can Have Them:
Including a Demanding New Turing Test
for Robot Philosophers
Invited talk at
Symposium on
AI and
Consciousness: Theoretical Foundations and Current Approaches
at
AAAI Fall Symposium,
Washington, 9-11 November 2007
Abstract
and workshop paper also available
- 9th November 2007
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#devrep
(PDF)
Diversity of Developmental Trajectories in Natural and
Artificial Intelligence
Invited talk at
Symposium on
Computational Approaches to Representation Change
During Learning and Development
at
AAAI Fall Symposium,
Washington, 9-11 November 2007
Abstract and printed symposium paper also available.
- 25-26th October 2007
Requirements and Their Implications: It's harder than you think
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#oii
(PDF presentation)
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/sloman-oii-2007.html
(Position paper HTML/PDF)
Invited contribution to meeting on
"Artificial
Companions in Society: Perspectives on the Present and Future
Perspectives"
Organised by The Companions
Project, at the
Oxford Internet Institute,
Oxford University.
- 19th October 2007 (and 11 Dec 2007)
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#glang
What evolved first: Languages for communicating, or languages for
thinking (Generalised
Languages: GLs)
Talk at Language and cognition seminar, School of Psychology,
University of Birmingham.
A slightly simplified version prepared for first year
AI undergraduates was added on 11 Dec 2007.
- 10th October 2007
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#bielefeld
Why robot designers need to be philosophers and (and vice versa)
Invited talk at
Inauguration ceremony
of the
"Research Institute for Cognition and
Robotics - CoR-Lab", at
Bielefeld University.
- September 2007
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/conferences/mofm-paris-07/sloman/
Understanding causation in robots, animals and children: Hume's way
and Kant's way.
Contribution to 3-day workshop
Meeting
of Minds, bringing together psychologists, biologists and
robotics researchers,
organised by
The CoSy project
University of Paris, Sept 16-18, 2007
- July 2007
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#enf07
Machines in the ghost
Invited talk at
ENF'2007, Emulating the
Mind
1st international Engineering and Neuro-Psychoanalysis Forum
Vienna 22-23 July 2007
The full paper is available
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/papers/#tr0702
- June 2007
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#wonac07
Causal competences in animals and machines
One of a linked pair of invited talks (the other by Jackie Chappell)
at
NSF/EU-funded
International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Cognition
Pembroke College, Oxford, 24th-26th June 2007
- June 2007
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#cospal07
Some requirements for human-like visual systems, including seeing processes,
structures, possibilities, affordances, causation and impossible objects.
Invited talk at
COSPAL Workshop Aalborg,
14th June 2007 on
Cognitive Systems:
Perception, Action, Learning.
- May-June 2007
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#compmod07
Architectural and representational requirements for seeing processes
and affordances.
Invited talk at
BBSRC funded
Workshop
on Closing the gap between neurophysiology and behaviour:
A computational modelling approach
May 31st-June 2nd 2007
- May 2007
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/papers/#pr0703
Research Goals and Problems viewed after 37 years combining AI and
Philosophy in the context of psychology and biology and 10 years of
philosophy of mind and mathematics, before that.
Invited talk at
ERCIM Interlink Workshop
10-12 May 2007
For
Workgroup
3: Intelligent and Cognitive Systems
Interlink
is part of
ERCIM: the European Research
Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
- Feb 2007
Invited discussant at
Symposium on "Creating Brain-like Intelligence"
at The Honda Research Institute Europe,
Frankfurt. 1-4 Feb 2007,
- Jan 2007
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/papers/#pr0701
What's a Research Roadmap For? Why do we need one? How can we
produce one?
Invited presentation at the euCognition
Research
Roadmap discussion
at the Second Six-Monthly Meeting of the
euCognition network
11-12 January 2007
Munich Airport Conference Centre
For more on the Research Roadmap project see:
http://www.eucognition.org/wiki/index.php?title=Research_Roadmap
2006
- December 2006
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/papers/#pr0604
'Ontology extension' in evolution and in
development, in animals and machines.
Invited talk at AI seminar, Informatics, University of Edinburgh
7th Dec 2006
In the
'Computational Thinking' Seminar series.
(Previously presented in School of Biosciences, University of
Birmingham.)
- July 2006
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/dsc.html
Expanded version of acceptance speech at award of Honorary DSc
degree, University of Sussex, 21st July 2006.
Picture taken before the ceremony.
Picture
taken during presentation by Ron Chrisley.
- July 2006
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/fellows.html#sloman
Do we need a common framework for investigating architectures?
Presentation at AAAI Fellows Symposium, Cambridge, Mass
Picture taken at the event.
Reporting back on 'birds of a feather' discussion on:
July 15-16, 2006, at the Norton's Woods Conference Center,
The American Academy of Arts and Sciences,in Cambridge,
Massachusetts.
Two position-papers included in the Fellows Symposium proceedings
were
o
COSY-TR-0605:
Polyflaps as a domain for perceiving, acting and learning in a 3-D world
o
COSY-TR-0607:
GRAND CHALLENGE 5: The Architecture of Brain and Mind: Integrating
Low-Level Neuronal Brain Processes with High-Level Cognitive Behaviours
in a Functioning Robot
A members poster and poster summary were included at the main
conference
o
COSY-PR-0603:
How to Put the Pieces of AI Together Again (20 slide Poster)
o
COSY-TR-0608:
How to Put the Pieces of AI Together Again (2 page paper)
- June 2006
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#ki2006
Fundamental Questions - The Second Decade Of AI
(Towards Architectures for Human-like Machines)
Invited presentation at
Symposium on 50
years of AI, at the
KI2006 Conference
Bremen, June 17th 2006
- April 2006
Co-Organiser of
Symposium on Grand Challenge 5: Architecture of Brain and Mind
at AISB
2006
3-4 April 2007, Bristol UK.
- April 2006
How to experience the world: some not so simple ways
Invited talk at
symposium on Machine Consciousness,
at AISB
2006
5-6 April 2007, Bristol UK.
- March 2006
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk7
When is seeing (possibly in your mind's eye) better than
deducing, for reasoning?
Invited talk to Combined SSAISB
and BCS SGAI meeting at City University,
March 8th 2006
http://www.bcs-sgai.org/?section=bulletin
- February 2006
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/ortho-sussex.pdf
Orthogonal competences in humans, robots and other animals
(Or: What did Max mean by 'Controlled Hallucination'?)
Invited talk at Cognitive Science Research Centre, University of
Sussex. 7th Feb 2006.
2005
- October 2005
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/papers/#pr0506
Two views of child as scientist: Humean and Kantian
Presentation to Language and Cognition Seminar, School of
Psychology, University of Birmingham, October 14th 2005
- October -- November 2005
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/papers/#pr0505
A (Possibly) New Theory of Vision
Invited talks at:
Imperial College London on 25th October 2005,
Aston University on 28th October 2005,
University of Osnabrück 16th November 2005.
- October 2005
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/gc/gc5-presentation.pdf
Grand Challenge: Architecture of Brain and Mind
Invited speaker,
Cognitive Systems Colloquium, Euroforum, European
Commission, Luxembourg, 4th
4th October 2005.
Unit DG INFSO/E5 "Cognition"
- August 2005
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#rse-05
Invited talk at
Artificial Intelligence: In your Life Today
an event hosted by the Royal Society of Edinburgh
co-organised by the SSAISB and the British Computer Society
Specialist Group on AI (SGAI) 5th August 2005.
Poster for the event.
- July 2005
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/conferences/edinburgh-05.html
IJCAI-05 Tutorial: Representation and Learning in Robots and Animals
Co-Organised a two day tutorial with
Bernt
Schiele, funded by BT, IBM, InferMed and SSAISB,
at 19th International Joint
Conference on AI, Edinburgh, July 30-31 2005.
- June 2005
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#cafe04
Do Machines, Natural or Artificial, Really Need Emotions?
Talk originally given to
Cafe
Scientifique & Culturel Birmingham,
7th May 2004
Announced at
http://www.birminghamcafe.org/view.html?eid=11
Revised version presented on 24th June 2005 in Utrecht at
The 3rd multi-disciplinary symposium organized by the NWO Cognition
Programme:
How rational are we?
Also presented several other times/places.
- May 2005
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/reading.pdf
'Putting the pieces of a mind together'.
Invited talk at School of Systems Engineering, University of
Reading, 19th May, 2005.
- April 2005
'Putting the pieces of a mind together'.
(Same talk as given at Reading in May (above).
Invited talk at Department of Computer Science, University of
Sheffield, 20th April, 2005.
- April 2005
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/papers/#tr0501
Altricial self-organising information-processing systems
With Jackie Chappell.
Invited paper for
GC7 Workshop,
on The Grand Challenge in Non-Classical Computation,
York, 17-19 April 2005
List of papers.
- March 2005
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/souls.pdf
How to make machines with souls
Invited talk to
Cambridge University Atheist and Agnostic Society
10th March 2005
CUAAS events list.
- February 2005
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/talks/cogniron-talk.pdf
Towards human-like architectures:
Invited talk at
Cogniron
Workshop on "Cognitive Robots and Systems, held at the
Euron Conference
Warsaw, 17th Feb 2005.
- January 2005
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/talks/goldsmiths.pdf
Architectures for human-like machines
Invited talk at Goldsmiths College London, 19th Jan 2005.
2004
- November 2004
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/gc/gc5-presentation.pdf
Seminar presentation on Grand Challenge 5: Architecture of Brain and
Mind.
Invited talk at School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 18th
November 2004.
- November 2004
http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/events/hotseat/panel_statements.html#aaron_position
Contribution to Hot Seat Debate: Can Computers Have Emotions?
Panel debate at School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh,
17 November 2004
- November 2004
Invited discussant, FP7 Robotics Planning Workshop, European
Commission, 8-9th November 2004.
- October 2004
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/papers/#pr0401
Tutorial on Integration, For Cognitive Systems Conference.
Presentation at
Cognitive Systems Kickoff Conference,
Bled, Slovenia, 28-30 October 2004.
COSY-PR-0402:">
Movie of Tutorial presentation on Integration
WARNING 398MBytes (.mp3.avi file)
- September 2004
Architectures for intelligent systems.
Presentation in Zoology Department, University of Oxford,
30th Sept 2004.
Talked informally about the CogAff project and
the
H-CogAff architecture
- Sept 2004
How to make machines with souls
Invited speaker at informal debate at Institute of Contemporary Arts
on: The search for a soul.
A few slides prepared for the debate:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/ica-soul.pdf
- May 2004
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#cafe04
Do machines, natural or artificial, really need emotions?
Invited presentation at Cafe Scientifique, Birmingham, 7th May 2004.
- April 2004
http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes/DWSAS-statements.html#aaron
Statement on Self-Aware systems
Invited discussant, DARPA funded
Workshop on Self-aware systems
Washington DC, USA, 27-28th April 2004.
- March 2004
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/gc/gc5-presentation.pdf
Grand Challenge 5: Architecture of Brain and Mind
Invited presentation at CPHC/BCS Grand Challenges conference,
Newcastle, March 29-31 2004
- March 2004
Slides
for talk (PDF)
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/04.html#200403
What are emotion theories about?
Invited speaker at workshop on
Architectures for Modeling Emotion:
Cross-Disciplinary Foundations,
AAAI Spring symposium,
Stanford March 22-24 2004.
http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqlc/ame04
- February 2004
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/newcastle-symp-04.pdf
Language, Architecture & Integration
Beyond old dichotomies: Empiricist/Nativist Empiricist/Rationalist,
and others
Invited speaker at symposium on
Language: cognitive, neuroscientific and dynamical systems
perspectives,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, February 20-22, 2004.
- February 2004
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#inf
What are Information-Processing Machines?
What Are Information-Processing Virtual Machines?
Notes from a ESF-funded workshop
on models of consciousness, Sept 2003, and an invited
presentation at
University of York, 11th Feb 2004.
- February 2004
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#simagent
Simagent: Tools for Designing Minds -- A toolkit for philosophers
and engineers
Invited
presentation at University of York, 11th Feb 2004.
2003
- November 2003
Recorded interview included in
BT Schools Lecture on 'Digital Tears'.
Also provided interactive demo based on the
SimAgent
Toolkit
- October 2003
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#cafe04
Why should robots, or animals, have emotions?
Talk to Cafe Scientifique, Nottingham,
27th October,
2003.
- September 2003
Presentation on Grand Challenge 5: Architecture of Brain and Mind
At press conference arranged by British Computer Society, London.
- September 2003
Presentation on Models of Consciousness
At ESF-funded
Workshop on Models of Consciousness,
Birmingham,
1-3 September 2003.
- June 2003
Invited to discussion at European Commission, Brussels,
planning new Cognitive Systems initiative for EU Framework 6
projects,
5th June 2003.
- June 2003
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/misc/talks/#talk25
What kind of virtual machine is capable of human consciousness?
Invited plenary talk at
ASSC7:
Models and Mechanisms of Consciousness
The seventh meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study
of Consciousness,
May 30th to June 2nd, 2003, at
the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee.
-
May 2003
Presentation on
Grand Challenge 5: Architecture of Brain and Mind
Invited talk at planning meeting of the UK DTI
Foresight Cognitive Systems Project.
London, May 14th-15th 2003.
- March 2003
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk23
Architecture-Based Philosophy of Mind (ECAP-03)
What kind of virtual machine is capable of human consciousness?
The Thomas Reid Lecture in Computing and Philosophy
Invited keynote talk at The First European
Conference on Computing and
Philosophy, University of Glasgow, March 27-29, 2003.
- February 2003
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk20
When Will Real Robots Be As Clever As The Ones In The Movies?
Invited talk at
DAMTP: Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
Cambridge University, 21st February 2003
- February 2003
How to design a functioning mind
Invited talk at Computing Laboratory at
the University of Kent at Canterbury.
18th February, 2003.
- January 2003
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk21
Human vision --- a multi-layered multi-functional system
Presentation at British Machine Vision symposium, London
29th Jan 2003.
http://www.bmva.ac.uk/meetings/03/29jan03/jan29prog.pdf
Reverse Engineering: the Human Vision System.
Biologically inspired Computer Vision Approaches
- January 2003
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk20
When Will Real Robots Be As Clever As The Ones In The Movies?
Talk at Association for Scientific Education
Also presented at DAMT (above)
2002
- November 2002
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/darpa02/
How to Think About Cognitive Systems: Requirements and Designs
White paper and slides prepared for
DARPA Workshop on Cognitive Systems,
Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia, USA, 3-6 Nov 2002.
For some reason the papers, presentations, and organisational
information about that workshop are no longer available on the web.
I have copies of most of them.
I was the only person invited from outside the USA to the workshop.
My recommendation, not to focus on how to design an intelligent
office assistant with the capabilities of a highly competent adult
(e.g. Radar O'Reilly in MASH), but instead to focus research
resources on trying to replicate as much as possible of the
intelligence of a young child (not a new-born infant) including,
above all trying to understand the requirements, for such a
system, before rushing into designs, was not accepted.
- October 2002
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/misc/talks/#talk18
What is Science?
Invited presentation at launch of Birmingham
Cafe Scientifique,
25th
October 2002, at Midlands Art Centre.
- October 2002
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk17
AI and The Study of Mind
Invited talk at
Artificial Intelligence: Recollections of the pioneers.
A meeting of the Computer Conservation Society
on the early days of AI in the UK, British Museum, London,
11 October 2002.
- August 2002
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk16
More Things Than Are Dreamt Of In Your Biology:
Information
processing in biologically-inspired robots. By Aaron Sloman and Ron
Chrisley
Talk (with Ron Chrisley), presented at
EPSRC/BBSRC International Workshop
on Biologically-Inspired Robotics:
The Legacy of W. Grey Walter 14-16 August 2002, HP Bristol Labs, UK
- July 2002
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk15
Can we design a mind?
Invited keynote talk at Artificial Intelligence in Design conference
http://www.arch.usyd.EDU.AU/kcdc/conferences/aid02
http://www.arch.usyd.EDU.AU/kcdc/conferences/
The University of Cambridge,
15-17 July
- June 2002
Varieties of affect and the CogAff architecture schema
Invited talk on emotions and architectures at the
Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, 19th June 2002.
- April 2002
Architectures for common sense thinking
Invited speaker at workshop held
on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, in April 14-16
2002, and hosted by the Jeffrey Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation.
This meeting led to a paper by Singh, Minsky and Sloman in the AI
Magazine:
The St. Thomas common sense symposium: designing architectures
for human-level intelligence.
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/04.html#200402
- March 2002
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#grounding
Getting Meaning off the Ground: Symbol Grounding vs Symbol
Attachment/Tethering
Invited seminar presentation at MIT Media Lab, 15th March 2002.
Short, updated, tutorial summary added, September 2007
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#models
Introduction to key ideas of semantic models, implicit definitions
and symbol tethering
- March 2002
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/ibm02
Architectures and the spaces they inhabit
Invited talks at workshop and conference at
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, New York.
March 15-16 2002: A small workshop at the IBM Thomas J. Watson
Research Center,
on architectures for common sense reasoning, was
followed by a conference on the same topic at which the invited
speakers were John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky and Aaron Sloman.
Some aspects of the workshop were reported in
'An architecture of diversity for
commonsense reasoning'
J. McCarthy, M. Minsky,
A. Sloman, L. Gong, T. Lau, L. Morgenstern, E. T. Mueller, D.
Riecken, M. Singh, and P. Singh,
in IBM Systems Journal Vol 41, no 3, 2002
pages 530--539
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj41-3.html
- March 2002
http://vega.org.uk/video/programme/16
BBC2/Open University TV programme on "Machines with Minds"
"Discussion
chaired by Colin Blakemore (Oxford University), the panel
consists
of
Professor Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham), Dr Amanda
Sharkey (University of Sheffield), and Professor Igor Aleksander
(Imperial College)."
First broadcast March 2002
Open University links:
http://www.open2.net/nextbigthing/ai/ai.htm
http://www.open2.net/nextbigthing/ai/hear_the_arguments/arguments.htm
- March 2002
http://www.ik2007.de/html/ki3.html
KI3: Architectures for Emotional Animals and Machines
Invited tutorial presentation at IK2002: Interdisciplinary College
2002
March 1 - 8, 2002 Günne at Lake Möhne, Germany
Focus Theme: Autonomie und Emotion
http://www.ik2007.de/html/ik2002.html
Four lectures presented:
-
1: Virtual machine architectures and their relations so
physical machines. Minds and their relations to brains. Muddled
ideas about emotions (and freedom).
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2: Reactive, deliberative and meta-management layers in
the human architecture, and how they might have evolved.
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3: How the layers relate to different sorts of
architectures. The COGAFF architecture-schema and the H-Cogaff
proposed schematic architecture.
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4: What are your objections? How does this relate to
alternative theories? Have we accounted for everything (including
qualia?). Unsolved problems: where next?
Slides available
here.
2001
- October 2001
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/misc/talks/#talk9
Varieties of Consciousness
Invited talk to Oxford Consciousness Society
24th October, 2001
- October 2001
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/00-02.html#74
Beyond shallow models of emotion
Invited talk Philosophy Department, Kings College London, 10th
October, 2001
- September 2001
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/misc/talks/#talk8
Evolvable, Biologically Plausible Visual Architectures
Talk presented at
BMVC01: British Machine Vision
Conference,
Sept 10-13 2001.
- August 2001
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/ijcai01
TUTORIAL SP3 Philosophical Foundations: Some Key Questions
Tutorial on Philosophical Foundations of AI, presented with
Matthias Scheutz at
17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
As part of the
Tutorial programme.
Sunday 5th August 2001,
Seattle, Washington, USA
- June 2001
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk6
Architectures for human-like agents,
Invited talk, presented to
Conference at
Nokia Research Centre,
Helsinki, on 8th June 2001
- April 2001
Debate: This house believes that robots will have free will
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/freewill-debate.pdf
An International AI Symposium in memory of Sidney Michaelson
British Computer Society, Edinburgh Branch
Reviewed
here (with pictures)
7th April 2001
- March 2001
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk4
How To Understand Natural Minds of Many Kinds
Invited talk at BBSRC/EPSRC
meeting to discuss a proposed new joint initiative:
Adaptive and
Interactive Behaviour of Animals and Computational
Systems (AIBACS),
28-29th March 2001, Abingdon
- March 2001
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk3
Varieties of Affect and the COGAFF Architecture Schema
Presented at
the
symposium on Emotion, cognition, and affective computing,
at the
AISB
2001 Convention held at the University of York, 23--24 March
2001.
- February 2001
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk1
What sort of information processing architecture suffices for
human-like minds?
Invited talk at 'Consultation' of Society of Ordained Scientists,
Windsor Castle, 14-16th February, 2001.
- February 2001
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk1
Varieties of evolvable minds
Invited talk, Department of Computing, University of Surrey.
7th February, 2001
- January 2001
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#simagent
Invited talk at Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 30th January
2001.
Also presented in May 2000 at IRST in Trento.
- January 2001
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk1
Varieties of Evolvable Minds
Invited talk at the
McDonnell Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience
Oxford University, 22nd Jan 2001.
Maintained by
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School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham
