[info] [singularity] ANNOUNCEMENT: ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE 2008 CONFERENCE
Eugen Leitl
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From: Benjamin Goertzel <ben at goertzel.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:49:41 -0400
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Subject: [singularity] ANNOUNCEMENT: ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE 2008
CONFERENCE
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Hi all,
It's my pleasure to announce a conference that I'm helping to
co-organize...
** The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, aka AGI-08
**
Information may be found at the website
[1]http://agi-08.org/
It will be in early March 2008 at the University of Memphis, and we
have
every hope it will be an historic occasion, playing a major role in
crystallizing
AGI as a coherent and critical field of research.
While it will be in the main a technical research conference,
non-academics
are welcome -- anyone is welcome who is interested to learn about what
is currently happening in the field of AGI.
This is going to be a somewhat larger and more formally organized
conference
than the small AGI Workshop I helped organize in Bethesda in May 2006.
The conference chair is Stan Franklin, author of "Artificial Minds"
and one of the
recognized leaders of the AGI field (famous among other things for his
introduction
of the "agents perspective" into the modern vocabulary of AI). Pei
Wang,
Bruce Klein and I are among the co-chairs.
Research papers are solicited for presentation, the deadline is
September 30.
Proceedings will be published by IOS Press.
On the conference web page you will find, among other things, a
one-page
color brochure for the conference. If you are affiliated with a
university
or some other institution likely to be home to folks potentially
interested in
AGI-08, I'd like to encourage you to print up this brochure and post
it publicly.
Also, you may feel free to forward this email to any relevant email
lists you may
come across. Or to academic email lists you may wish to forward the
formal
"Call for Papers" which I append at the end of this email and also in
a text file
attachment. The CFP is also given on the conference website at
[2]http://www.agi-08.org/overview_callforpapers.php
I hope to see many members of this email list at the conference in
March!!
Thanks,
Ben Goertzel
*********
First Call for Papers
The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08)
March 1-3, 2008, at Memphis, Tennessee, USA
[3]
http://www.agi-08.org
Paper submission deadline: September 30, 2007
---------------------------
The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was initially directly aimed at the c
onstruction of "thinking machines" that is, computer systems with human-like g
eneral intelligence. But this task proved very difficult, and so as steps in th
is direction, AI researchers focused on producing AI systems displaying intelli
gence regarding specific tasks in relatively narrow domains. In recent years, h
owever, the situation has been changing. More and more researchers have recogni
zed the necessity and feasibility of returning to the original goals of the f
ield. Increasingly, there is a call for a transition from the current focus on
highly specialized "narrow AI" problem solving systems, back to confronting the
more difficult issues of "human level intelligence" and more broadly "artifici
al general intelligence (AGI)."
Encouraged by the recent success of several smaller-scale AGI-Related Meetings
([4]www.agi-08.org/related.php) we have taken the initiative to facilitate the
very first international conference on AGI. The AGI-08 conference will give AGI
researchers the opportunity for presenting research results and exchanging ide
as on topics of common interest. During the conference, we will also discuss th
e possibility of creating a new organization to promote and coordinate AGI rese
arch.
The conference is explicitly open to all the various techniques used in seeking
to realize general intelligence for instance, symbolic, connectionist, evolut
ionary, robotic, mathematical, or integrative approaches (... or new approaches
that the conference organizers have never heard of!). We are particularly inte
rested in papers describing concrete, reasonably well-fleshed-out AGI projects
meaning, research projects that:
- are based on a coherent theory about "intelligence" as a whole
- involve a concrete engineering plan oriented toward implementing the relevant
conception of general intelligence in a computer system
- have already produced some concrete results, either practical or theoretical
However, we are also open to high-quality submissions that address key aspects
of AGI from a purely theoretical perspective, or that discuss AGI projects at a
n earlier stage of development. There is a list of Suggested Topics (
[5]www.agi-08.org/suggested.php) at the conference website, though other topics
are also welcomed, so long as there is a recognizable relation to AGI, as defi
ned above.
AGI-08 will be an inter-disciplinary meeting. Besides computer scientists and e
ngineers, we also welcome researchers from cognitive science, psychology, lingu
istics, neuroscience, philosophy, and other allied fields.
Conference Format
---------------------------
A tentative schedule ([6]www.agi-08.org/schedule.php) is available at the confe
rence website.
Briefly speaking, the conference will consist of several technical sessions, a
poster session, and a few special sessions as well. Each technical session will
be organized around a topic, and have time for talks, panel discussion, and ge
neral discussion.
Paper Submission
---------------------------
AGI-08 will accept two types of submissions: full-length papers (12 pages) and
short position statements (5 pages). All submissions should be prepared using t
he IOS templates (
[7]www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html), either in LaTeX or in MS Word.
All the papers will be submitted electronically. The details of the submission
procedure will be announced before the due date at the conference website.
AGI-08 Proceedings will be published by IOS Press, a major AI publisher. All ac
cepted papers will also be available on-line for open access.
Whether an accepted paper (of either length) will be presented as a talk or as
a poster will be determined by the Program Committee, in part based on paper qu
ality as assessed by the anonymous reviewers, and in part according to the exte
nt the paper addresses a topic of core interest to the AGI community.
The acceptance of a paper is based on the assumption that one of the authors wi
ll attend the conference to present the paper.
Important Due Dates
---------------------------
- September 30, 2007: Paper submission
- November 30, 2007: Acceptance notification
- December 20, 2007: Camera-ready copy submission
Organizing Committee
---------------------------
Stan Franklin (Chair), franklin -at- [8]
memphis.edu
Sidney D'Mello, sdmello -at- [9]memphis.edu
Ben Goertzel, ben -at- [10]novamente.net
Bruce Klein, bruce -at- [11]
novamente.net
Lee McCauley, mccauley -at- [12]memphis.edu
Pei Wang, pei.wang -at- [13]temple.edu
Program Committee
---------------------------
Ben Goertzel (Co-Chair), Novamente LLC
Pei Wang (Co-Chair), Temple University
Sam S. Adams, IBM Research
James Anderson, Brown University
Mike Anderson, Franklin & Marshall College
Mark H. Bickhard, Lehigh University
Yaneer Bar-Yam, New England Complex Systems Institute
Eric Baum, Baum Research Enterprises
Henry Brighton, Max Planck Institute for Human Development
Nick Cassimatis, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Hernan Castro, Intel Corporation
Andrew Coward, Australian National University
Hugo de Garis, Wuhan University
Debbie Duong, Science Applications International Corporation
Wlodzislaw Duch, Nicolaus Copernicus University
Richard Duro, Universidade da Coruña
Stan Franklin, University of Memphis
David Friedlander, Behavior Recognition Systems
Phil Goetz, National Library of Medicine
Josh Storrs Hall, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing
Marcus Hutter, Australian National University
Cliff Joslyn, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Nikola Kasabov, Auckland University of Technology
Randal Koene, Boston University
Christian Lebiere, Carnegie Mellon University
Soo-Young Lee, Korea Advanced Institute of Science & Technology
Douglas Lenat, Cycorp
Moshe Looks, Science Applications International Corporation
Bruce MacLennan, University of Tennessee
Don Perlis, University of Maryland
Matthias Scheutz, University of Notre Dame
Juergen Schmidhuber, Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Lokendra Shastri, International Computer Science Institute
Aaron Sloman, University of Birmingham
David G. Stork, Ricoh Innovations
John Gerald Taylor, King's College London
Karin Verspoor, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Paul Vogt, Tilburg University
Mark Waser, Books International
Mary-Anne William, University of Technology, Sydney
More information
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[14]http://www.agi-08.org
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References
1. http://agi-08.org/
2. http://www.agi-08.org/overview_callforpapers.php
3. http://www.agi-08.org/
4. http://www.agi-08.org/related.php
5. http://www.agi-08.org/suggested.php
6. http://www.agi-08.org/schedule.php
7. http://www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html
8. http://memphis.edu/
9. http://memphis.edu/
10. http://novamente.net/
11. http://novamente.net/
12. http://memphis.edu/
13. http://temple.edu/
14. http://www.agi-08.org/
15. http://www.agiri.org/email
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