PROGRAMME FOR
GC5 Symposium at AISB'06
Last Revised: 30 Mar 2006

The full list of speakers and abstracts for this symposium is here.

DAY 1 (MONDAY 3RD APRIL):

9:00 Registration (Wills Memorial Building)
9:30 coffee

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NB: THIS SYMPOSIUM WILL BE LOCATED IN ROOM 3.30

10:15 -- 12:30 Session 1 (2 hours 15 mins):

10:15 Intro: Welcome and short summary of GC5

10:40 Talk 1 45mins+10mins discussion Murray Shanahan
Cognition and Consciousness: Is There a Fundamental Link?

11:35 Talk 2 45mins+10mins discussion Pete Redgrave
Is it just a question of priority? Inspiration from the vertebrate basal ganglia.

12:30 lunch
13:30 -- 15:00 Session 2 (1.5 hours):

13:30 Talk 3 45mins+10mins discussion Jackie Chappell
How do animals gather useful information about their environment and act on it?

14:25 general discussion 35 mins

15:00 coffee
15:30 -- 17:30 Session 3 (2 hours)

15:30 Talk 4 45mins+10mins discussion Jeff Krichmar
Principles Underlying the Construction of Brain-Based Devices
(Revised 30 Mar 2006)

16:25 Talk 5 45mins+10mins discussion Aaron Sloman
Requirements for a robot with human child-like or crow-like visual and learning capabilities.

17:20 general discussion 10+ minutes

17:30 coffee
18:00 Convention Plenary Lecture

Mark Bedau (European Centre for Living Technology, Protolife SRL)
Evolutionary Design of Complex Chemical Systems

19:00 Convention reception
20:30 reception ends

DAY 2 (TUESDAY 4TH APRIL):

9:00 registration
9:30 -- 11:30 Session 4 (two hours):

9:30 Talk 6 45mins+10mins discussion Mike Denham
The role of the neocortical laminar microcircuitry in perception, cognition, and consciousness

10:25 Talk 7 45mins+10mins discussion Steve Furber
High-Performance Computing for Systems of Spiking Neurons

11:20 general discussion 10 minutes

11:30 coffee
12:00 -- 13:30 Session 5 (1.5 hours):

12:00 Talk 8 45mins+10mins discussion Mark Lee
Developmental Robotics: an emerging paradigm for intelligent agents.

12:55 general discussion 35 mins

13:30 lunch
14:30 -- 16:30 Session 6 (2 hours)

14:30 Talk 9 45mins+10mins discussion Mark Steedman
Plans and the Structure of Mind and Language

15:25 Talk 10 45mins+10mins discussion Tom Ziemke
Integrating Cognition, Emotion and Autonomy: Embodied Cognition in Organisms and Robots

16:30 coffee
17:00 Convention Plenary Lecture

Margaret Boden (Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Sussex)
Life and Mind: A Union without Divorce?

18:00 finish (maybe?)