Some Video Presentations relevant to the Cognition and Affect Project

CONTENTS

• Video Tutorials on Youtube:
  Introduction to Artificial Intelligence Programming in a powerful AI language, Pop11.
  Under continuous development, as more videos are added.

• Invited Keynote 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?)
• Videos of children and animals used in some of my presentations
  (In another directory with separate index)
• 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?
• Videos from ENF'07 Vienna (Added 20 Nov 2009):
  Invited talk at 1st international Engineering and Neuro-Psychoanalysis Forum, Vienna, July 2007
  Jaap 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
• 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"

THE PRESENTATIONS

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

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• Videos of Talks at SAB2010 Paris, August 2010
  Video of Aaron Sloman's talk:
  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

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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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• Videos from ENF'07 Vienna (Added 20 Nov 2009):
  1st international Engineering and Neuro-Psychoanalysis Forum, Vienna, July 2007

  Discussion with Jaak Panksepp at ENF 2007 (.AVI)

  I found this downloadable video here
  It is part of a video recording of one of the discussions at a conference:

  ENF07' 2007 Emulating the Mind
  1st international Engineering and Neuro-Psychoanalysis Forum
  Vienna, July 2007

  Jaak Panksepp and I had both given presentations and this short discussion session following our presentations was recorded.
  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

  A video recording of my presentation is also available here (AVI), downloaded from The Book's web site
  Unfortunately the recording was ruined by the fact that the camera was aimed only at my face, completely ignoring what I was pointing at on the screen. Anyone interested can see my slides and attempt to relate them to the video: (PDF).

  Jaap Panksepp's presentation is also available there in video.

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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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• Sussex December 2008

  Video recording of a talk A New Approach to Philosophy of Mathematics: Design a young explorer, able to discover "toddler theorems" 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). (Temporarily unavailable: Dec 2009 -- new host being sought.)

  The video recording can 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.

  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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• 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, but I am not allowed to make them available on the web. Email me if interested.
  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 Professor Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham), Dr Amanda Sharkey (University of Sheffield), and Professor Igor Aleksander (Imperial College).

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

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