Some Video Presentations relevant to the Cognition and Affect Project
And, since 2012, also the Meta-Morphogenesis Project

CONTENTS
(Needs to be reorganised.)

• Videos of children and animals used in some of my presentations
  (In another directory with separate index)

• December 2012
  Tutorial on Meta-Morphogenesis presented by Aaron Sloman
  at the AGI conference, Oxford on 10th December 2012,

• December 2012: Adam Ford interviewed Aaron Sloman at the AGI-2012 Conference, Oxford,
  on topics related to the evolution of intelligence and prospects for AI.
  A transcript of the interview is now available thanks to help from Dylan Holmes (MIT).

• September 2012 "What is computational thinking? Who needs it? Why? How can it be learnt?"
  Invited talk at ALT-C 2012, Manchester, Sept 2012

• Video Tutorials on Youtube:
  Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Programming (Thinky Programming) in Pop11.

• Invited talk at 4th AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) 2011 Conference, 5th Aug 2011
  The biological bases of mathematical competences: a challenge for AGI

• "TeachShare" Presentation to ComputingAtSchool 8th June 2011
  The Science of Nearly Everything. Including Biology!
  (What does AI have to do with Biology?)

• Talk at Automatheo 2011 (April 2011, University of Oxford), installed here 12 Jul 2013
  Speaker: Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham)
  Title: Evolution, robots and mathematics (Poor Audio)
  Youtube version http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZeqILYDlUo

  Local version (Medium Resolution Flash 213MB):
  http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/movies/Aaron_Sloman_Evolution_robots_and_mathematics_large.flv

• Invited talk at SAB2010 Paris, August 2010
  Using virtual machinery to bridge the "explanatory gap"
  Or: Helping Darwin: How to Think About Evolution of Consciousness
  Or: How could evolution (or anything else) get ghosts into machines?

• Talk at Nottingham LSRI Feb 2010.
  If learning mathematics requires a teacher, where did the first teachers come from?

• Video recording of a talk at Sussex University, 9th December 2008
  A New Approach to Philosophy of Mathematics: Design a young explorer, able to discover "toddler theorems"

• Videos from ENF'07 Vienna (Added 20 Nov 2009; more on 5 Jan 2013):
  Invited talk at 1st international Engineering and Neuro-Psychoanalysis Forum, Vienna, July 2007
  Jaak Panksepp's presentation in response is also available.

• Some audio interviews on Philosophy and AI/Cognitive science

• Tutorial at Cosy Kickoff Conference, Bled, October 2004

THE PRESENTATIONS

• Videos of children and animals used in some of my presentations
  (In another directory with separate index)

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• 10th December 2012 (Installed 20 May 2013, updated 26th June)
  Adam Ford recorded a 2 hour 30 mins tutorial on Meta-Morphogenesis presented by Aaron Sloman
  at the AGI conference, Oxford, the day after the interview listed below.
  Tutorial abstract is here
     Meta-morphogenesis: How a planet can produce Minds, Mathematics and Music
     (along with murder, religious bigotry, and other nastiness).

  Videos:
  

  • Main web site for tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNul52kFI74
    (This replaces the original version with errors in titles and an audio problem near the end).
  • The "medium" version in '.webm' format is available here:
    (.webm 496M, about 2hours 30 minutes)
  • Higher and lower resolution versions are available on the web site.

  The video of the tutorial was originally uploaded on Friday 17th May 2013, but with some errors,
  and audio deficiencies. A revised version was installed on Adam Ford's web site on 14th June 2013.
  Slides finished after the event can be found here (PDF) and on slideshare.net in Flash format.

  The tutorial did not exactly follow the slides I had prepared, partly because it was
  highly interactive, partly because there was confusion about the start time, so some
  examples were presented while people were still coming in.

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• 9th December 2012; (Updated 29 Sep 2013)
  Adam Ford interviewed Aaron Sloman (Youtube) at the AGI-2012 Conference, Oxford,
  on topics related to the evolution of intelligence and prospects for AI.
  A reduced .mp4 version (254MB) is available here.
  A transcript of the interview is now available thanks to help from Dylan Holmes (MIT).

  I gave a tutorial presentation the following day, listed above.

  Margaret Boden's interview by Adam Ford at AGI 2012 is also available, on Youtube here.
  We both emphasise the importance of getting questions right and give examples of bad
  questions, but our examples are different.

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• September 2012
  "What is computational thinking? Who needs it? Why? How can it be learnt?"
  Local copy (here.)
  Invited talk at ALT-C 2012, Manchester, Sept 2012 (without slides).
  Slide presentation, revised and extended after the talk can be found here,
  and in flash format on slideshare.net here.

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• A collection of video tutorials on Youtube:
  Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Programming (emphasising Thinky Programming)
  Using an AI language language, Pop11, including a powerful pattern matcher to
  simplify list processing, e.g. in programming a Chatbot and various other tasks.
  Includes introduction to use of the editor, use of 'espeak' to speak
  generated sentences and Haikus.
  Under continuous development, as more videos are added.

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• Invited talk at 4th AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) 2011 Conference, 5th Aug 2011
  Downloadable video: The biological bases of mathematical competences: a challenge for AGI (.ogv 85MB)
  Youtube version: Friday Morning Keynote Sessions (Sloman and Boyden)
  Extended Abstract
  The conference was held at Google, Mountain View, USA. Full set of conference videos is here.

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• "TeachShare" Presentation to ComputingAtSchool 8th June 2011"
  The Science of Nearly Everything. Including Biology!
  (What does AI have to do with Biology?)
  Slides for the presentation.

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• Videos of Talks at SAB2010 Paris, August 2010
  Video of Aaron Sloman's talk (aaron_sloman.rm):
  Using virtual machinery to bridge the "explanatory gap"
  Or: Helping Darwin: How to Think About Evolution of Consciousness
  Or: How could evolution (or anything else) get ghosts into machines?
  http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#talk84
  NOTE: The web site seems to have disappeared. As far as I know the videos of all the
  keynote talks have been lost. If anyone knows where they are please let me know.

  Talks by the other two invited speakers (also lost when I last checked):

  • Video of Michael Arbib's talk
  • Video of Rodney Brooks' talk:

  
  

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• If learning mathematics requires a teacher, where did the first teachers come from?
  Presentation at Nottingham University, Learning Sciences Research Institute 2 Feb 2010
  Link toVideo of the presentation.
  Also downloadable (as .wmv) here (about 638MB)
  (Includes Zeyn Saigol's refutation of my rubber-band star theorem.)
  See PDF presentation.

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• Sussex December 2008

  A New Approach to Philosophy of Mathematics: Design a young explorer, able to discover "toddler theorems"
  Talk given at Sussex university on 9th December 2008.
  The presentation at Sussex, including part of the discussion, was recorded on video by
  Nick Hockings and he has kindly made the resulting video available here (in three resolutions).
  (Update: unavailable since Dec 2009 -- new host being sought?)

  The video recording can also be viewed or downloaded HERE (.mov file, about 500MB)
  This is quite a high quality recording considering the circumstances.

  The PDF slides for the Sussex presentation, as shown on the video, are here (PDF).

  A revised and reorganised version of the slides used for a later presentation on the
  biological basis of mathematical competences can be found here.

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• Videos from ENF'07 Vienna (Added 20 Nov 2009; more on 5 Jan 2013):
  ENF07' 2007 Emulating the Mind
  (Link may be broken now.)
  1st international Engineering and Neuro-Psychoanalysis Forum (ENF), Vienna, July 2007
  Held in conjunction with:
  INDIN 2007 the 5th International Conference on Industrial Informatics,
  sponsored by the Industrial Electronics Society of the IEEE
  http://www.indin2007.org/

  Jaak Panksepp and I both gave invited presentations at ENF, followed by a short discussion/debate.
  Our presentations and the discussion were recorded on video. The recordings are available
  here (below) and also at the web site associated with the book of the conference:
  http://www.simulatingthemind.info/emulating-the-mind-forum-2007-videos/dvd-1/

  Unfortunately the recordings were ruined by the fact that the camera was aimed only at our
  faces, completely ignoring what speakers were pointing at on the screen, so that several
  sections will be incomprehensible to viewers. However, anyone interested can see my
  slides, mentioned below.

  • Aaron Sloman's presentation:

    My paper for the conference is Machines in the Ghost,

    in Simulating the Mind: A Technical Neuropsychoanalytical Approach,
    Eds. Dietrich, D. and Fodor, G. and Zucker, G. and Bruckner, D.,
    Springer, Vienna & New York, 2009. pp. 124--148, Online at:
    http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/papers/#tr0702

    The video recording of the presentation is available here (.AVI 165MB), downloaded from The Book's web site
    Anyone interested can see my slides and attempt to relate them to the video: (Slides PDF).

  • Jaak Panksepp's paper is:

    Simulating the Primal Affective Mentalities of the Mammalian Brain:
    A Fugue on the Emotional Feelings of Mental Life and Implications for AI-Robotics

    available on the book web site as a video (.AVI 143MB) , and also here (.AVI 143MB)

  • The Panksepp/Sloman discussion/debate at ENF 2007.
    The short discussion session following our presentations was recorded, and is available
    on the book website (.AVI 49MB) and also from (.AVI 49MB) here

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• Some audio interviews (e.g. with radio journalists) on philosophy and AI/Cognitive Science are here
  Including
  • (a) interview about the UKCRC Grand Challenge 5 (Architecture of Brain and Mind), and
  • (b) a programme presented by Margaret Boden on Radio 3 about AI, consciousness, emotions, etc.
    Unfortunately, like many BBC radio programmes nowadays it is ruined by lots of spurious,
    patronising background noises.

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• Tutorial at Cosy Kickoff Conference, Bled, October 2004

  A Video recording of a tutorial presentation on integration at the Kickoff Conference of
  the CoSy project in Bled Slovenia, in October 2004 was recorded on video and is available
  both on the CoSy web site in the
  tutorials section and also on the Birmingham Cosy Web site here (.avi file about 400MB)

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• Other things may be added later, as they become available.

• Two presentations given at a Philosophy Tutorial in Oxford in October 2008 were also
  recorded, and are available here.
  PDF presentations used for the talks are included here.

• The Next Big Thing:
  A discussion chaired by Prof Colin Blakemore for BBC and Open University in 2002.

  "When the science of artificial intelligence was launched in the 50s, its goal was to
  match the intellectual achievements of human beings. Why isn't machine intelligence
  already far superior to that of people?"

  Chaired by Colin Blakemore, the panel consists of

  • Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham),
  • Amanda Sharkey (University of Sheffield),
  • Igor Aleksander (Imperial College).

Maintained by Aaron Sloman
School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham

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