AISB 2000: How to Design a Functioning Mind: Schedule

Last updated: 16 Apr 2000

"HOW TO DESIGN A FUNCTIONING MIND"

A TWO DAY SYMPOSIUM 17-18 APRIL 2000

SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE

NOTE: The plenary talks for the main convention have been included here as they are relevant to this symposium and most of the plenary speakers will be attending this symposium.

For preliminary abstracts of talks see The Abstracts directory.

Monday 17th April

8.30 Conference registration, posters go up in Mason Lounge

9.00 Symposium registration, welcome, and introduction by A.Sloman
* Models of models of minds (short).

9.30 Stan Franklin, University of Memphis
* A "Consciousness" Based Architecture for a Functioning Mind

10.00 Brian Logan, University of Nottingham
* A design study for an AFP (Attention Filter Penetration) architecture

10.30-11 BREAK (and posters)

11.00 Keith Oatley, University of Toronto
* Shakespeare's invention of theatre as a simulation that runs on minds

11.30 Joanna Bryson, MIT
* Making Modularity Work: Combining Memory Systems and Intelligent Processes in a Dialog Agent

12.00 Discussion

12.30-2.00 LUNCH

2.00 Bruce Edmonds, Manchester Metropolitan University
* Towards Implementing Free Will

2.30 Matthias Scheutz, University of Notre Dame
* Behavioral States: Linking Functional and Physical Descriptions

3.00 Pentti Haikonen, Nokia Research Center
* An Artificial Mind via Cognitive Modular Neural Architecture

3.30-4 BREAK (and posters)

      NOTE: timing of remaining Monday sessions liable to change

4.00 Discussion, then

4.30 Special guest speaker (shared with Creativity Symposium):
* David Lodge, Honorary Professor of Modern English Literature, University of Birmingham

"Thinks: a novelist's response to the consciousness debate."
David Lodge's latest (unpublished) novel, provisionally entitled "Thinks", involves cognitive scientists, a novelist and a conference on consciousness. The talk will present an account of the genesis of this book, how he got interested in the subject of consciousness, how he tried to find an appropriate fictional form to explore it, and will include a few short extracts.

5.30 BREAK (with refreshments in Aston Webb Building)

7.00 Plenary talk:
* Marvin Minsky, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
* Future Models for Mind-Machines

Tuesday 18th April

9.00 Doug Riecken, IBM Watson Research Center & Rutgers University
* We Must RE-MEMBER to RE-FORMULATE: The M System

9.30 John Fox, Imperial Cancer Research Fund Laboratories
* Making a mind: a cognitive engineering approach

10.00 John Barnden, University of Birmingham
* Simulating simulating minds, metaphorically speaking

10.30-11 BREAK (and posters)

11.00 Darryl Davis, University of Hull

* Minds have personalities - Emotion is the core

11.30 David Glasspool, Imperial Cancer Research Fund and Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, UCL
* The Integration and control of behaviour: Insights from neuroscience and AI

12.00 Zippora Arzi-Gonczarowski, Typographics, Ltd. Jerusalem
* A blueprint for a mind by a categorical commutative diagram

12.30-2. LUNCH

2.00 Carl Frankel, Organizational Measurement and Engineering and Rebecca Ray, San Francisco State University
* Emotion, intention and the control architecture of adaptively competent information processing.

2.30 William Clocksin, University of Cambridge
* A Narrative Architecture for Functioning Minds: A Social Constructionist Approach

3.00 Discussion

3.30-4 BREAK

4.00 Posters

4.30-5.30 Discussion then close

BREAK

6.30 Plenary talk:
* Geoffrey Hinton, University College London
* How to train a community of stochastic generative models

ADDITIONAL RELEVANT ITEMS:

Wednesday 19th April

6:30 Plenary talk:
* Alan Bundy, University of Edinburgh
* What is a proof? (The sociological aspects of the notion of proof.)

Thursday 20th April

12.00 Plenary Talk:
* Aaron Sloman, University of Birmingham
* From intelligent organisms to intelligent social systems: how evolution of meta-management supports social/cultural advances.

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Marvin Minsky (Also Convention plenary speaker), "Large-Scale Models of the Mind"

Frederic Alexandre, "Inspiration from Neurosciences to emulate Cognitive Tasks at different Levels of Time"

Steve Allen "A Concern-centric Society-of-Mind approach to Mind Design"

Christoph Benzmueller, Mateja Jamnik, Manfred Kerber, and Volker Sorge
Resource Guided Concurrent Deduction

Stevo Bozinovski and Liljana Bozinovska, "Architecture of Mind Considering Integration of Genetic, Neural, and Hormonal System"

Marcin Chady "Can we model the mind with its own products?"

Jim Cunningham "Towards an Axiomatic Theory of Consciousness"

Kerstin Dautenhahn "Design issues of Biological and Robotic "Minds" (What are minds for? The evolutionary perspective)."

Ben Goertzel, Ken Silverman, Cate Hartley, Stephan Bugaj, and Mike Ross "The Baby Webmind Project"

Catriona Kennedy "Reflective Architectures for Survival: Bridging the Gap between Philosophy and Engineering"

Stefan Kuenzell "Learning the basics"

Andres Perez-Uribe "Of implementing neural epigenesis, reinforcement learning, and mental rehearsal in a mobile atuonomous robot"

Takafumi Tsuchiya, "Functions for the management of valuable goals: Goal scheduling and action mode switching done by an autonomous agent on the basis of situational urgency."

For more details see the abstracts.

FOR FURTHER DETAILS, INCLUDING OTHER SYMPOSIA

See the main convention web site: