For each presentation a link is given to more detailed information about its contents, and a downloadable (PDF) version of the presentation. The more detailed information is collected in two places
31st March - 1st April 2010: AIIB Symposium on AI-inspired Biology, at AISB10 conference.
2nd Feb 2010: "If learning mathematics requires a teacher, where did the teachers come from?"
Nottingham University, LSRI
2009
Some thoughts and demos, on ways of using computing for deep education on many topics.
As a change from teaching:
- ``useful'' skills (of various kinds),
- uses of computing,
- computer science
- computer/software engineering.
Nick Hockings has kindly made a video of the Sussex talk available here (in three resolutions):Original title
http://exposureroom.com/members/NickHock.aspx/assets/abd0235e69f0410897906996c910b9fd/
A new approach to philosophy of mathematics: design a young mathematically disposed explorer.Revised title
A New Approach to Philosophy of Mathematics:
Design a young explorer, able to discover ``toddler theorems''
EXTENDED ABSTRACT for invited talk at Complexity Conference (UIUC, 12-15 May 2008)
http://www.howhy.com/ucs2008/ Understanding Complex Systems
Part of the talk can be found in this experiment on speed of visual
perception:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/misc/multipic-challenge.pdf
Many of the ideas were in this talk given in May 2007.
Talk at Thinking about Mathematics and Science seminar
University of Liverpool
Abstract circulated in advance
Both talks were on Why symbol-grounding is both impossible and unnecessary, and why theory-tethering is more powerful anyway. (Introduction to key ideas of semantic models, implicit definitions and symbol tethering through theory tethering.)
Invited talk atSymposium on AI and Consciousness: Theoretical Foundations and Current Approaches
at AAAI Fall Symposium, Washington, 9-11 November 2007
Invited talk atSymposium on Computational Approaches to Representation Change During Learning and Development
at AAAI Fall Symposium, Washington, 9-11 November 2007
Invited contribution to meeting on "Artificial Companions in Society: Perspectives on the Present and Future Perspectives"
Organised by The Companions Project, at the Oxford Internet Institute, Oxford University.
Talk at Language and cognition seminar, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham. A slightly simplified version prepared for first year AI undergraduates was added on 11 Dec 2007.
Invited talk at Inauguration ceremony of the "Research Institute for Cognition and Robotics - CoR-Lab", at Bielefeld University.
Contribution to 3-day workshop Meeting of Minds, bringing together psychologists, biologists and robotics researchers,
organised by The CoSy project
University of Paris, Sept 16-18, 2007
Invited talk at ENF'2007, Emulating the Mind
1st international Engineering and Neuro-Psychoanalysis Forum
Vienna 22-23 July 2007
The full paper is available http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cosy/papers/#tr0702
One of a linked pair of invited talks (the other by Jackie Chappell) at
NSF/EU-funded International Workshop on Natural and Artificial Cognition
Pembroke College, Oxford, 24th-26th June 2007
Invited talk at COSPAL Workshop Aalborg, 14th June 2007 on Cognitive Systems: Perception, Action, Learning.
Invited talk at BBSRC funded Workshop on Closing the gap between neurophysiology and behaviour:
A computational modelling approach
May 31st-June 2nd 2007
Invited talk at ERCIM Interlink Workshop 10-12 May 2007
For Workgroup 3: Intelligent and Cognitive Systems
Interlink is part of ERCIM: the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics
Invited presentation at the euCognition Research Roadmap discussion
at the Second Six-Monthly Meeting of the euCognition network 11-12 January 2007 Munich Airport Conference Centre
For more on the Research Roadmap project see: http://www.eucognition.org/wiki/index.php?title=Research_Roadmap
Invited talk at AI seminar, Informatics, University of Edinburgh 7th Dec 2006
In the 'Computational Thinking' Seminar series.
(Previously presented in School of Biosciences, University of Birmingham.)
Picture taken before the ceremony.
Picture taken during presentation by Ron Chrisley.
Presentation at AAAI Fellows Symposium, Cambridge, Mass
Picture taken at the event.
Reporting back on 'birds of a feather' discussion on: July 15-16, 2006, at the Norton's Woods Conference Center, The American Academy of Arts and Sciences,in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Two position-papers included in the Fellows Symposium proceedings were
o COSY-TR-0605: Polyflaps as a domain for perceiving, acting and learning in a 3-D world
o COSY-TR-0607: GRAND CHALLENGE 5: The Architecture of Brain and Mind: Integrating Low-Level Neuronal Brain Processes with High-Level Cognitive Behaviours in a Functioning RobotA members poster and poster summary were included at the main conference
o COSY-PR-0603: How to Put the Pieces of AI Together Again (20 slide Poster)
o COSY-TR-0608: How to Put the Pieces of AI Together Again (2 page paper)
Invited presentation at Symposium on 50 years of AI, at the KI2006 Conference Bremen, June 17th 2006
Invited talk at symposium on Machine Consciousness, at AISB 2006 5-6 April 2007, Bristol UK.
Invited talk to Combined SSAISB and BCS SGAI meeting at City University, March 8th 2006 http://www.bcs-sgai.org/?section=bulletin
Invited talk at Cognitive Science Research Centre, University of Sussex. 7th Feb 2006.
Presentation to Language and Cognition Seminar, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, October 14th 2005
Invited talks at:
Imperial College London on 25th October 2005,
Aston University on 28th October 2005,
University of Osnabrück 16th November 2005.
Invited speaker, Cognitive Systems Colloquium, Euroforum, European Commission, Luxembourg, 4th 4th October 2005.
Unit DG INFSO/E5 "Cognition"
Invited talk at Artificial Intelligence: In your Life Today an event hosted by the Royal Society of Edinburgh co-organised by the SSAISB and the British Computer Society Specialist Group on AI (SGAI) 5th August 2005.
Poster for the event.
Co-Organised a two day tutorial with Bernt Schiele, funded by BT, IBM, InferMed and SSAISB, at 19th International Joint Conference on AI, Edinburgh, July 30-31 2005.
Talk originally given to Cafe Scientifique & Culturel Birmingham, 7th May 2004
Announced at http://www.birminghamcafe.org/view.html?eid=11Revised version presented on 24th June 2005 in Utrecht at
The 3rd multi-disciplinary symposium organized by the NWO Cognition Programme: How rational are we?Also presented several other times/places.
Invited talk at School of Systems Engineering, University of Reading, 19th May, 2005.
Invited talk at Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield, 20th April, 2005.
Invited paper for GC7 Workshop, on The Grand Challenge in Non-Classical Computation, York, 17-19 April 2005
List of papers.
Invited talk to Cambridge University Atheist and Agnostic Society 10th March 2005
CUAAS events list.
Invited talk at Cogniron Workshop on "Cognitive Robots and Systems, held at the Euron Conference Warsaw, 17th Feb 2005.
Invited talk at Goldsmiths College London, 19th Jan 2005.
Invited talk at School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 18th November 2004.
Panel debate at School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, 17 November 2004
Presentation at Cognitive Systems Kickoff Conference, Bled, Slovenia, 28-30 October 2004.
COSY-PR-0402:"> Movie of Tutorial presentation on Integration
WARNING 398MBytes (.mp3.avi file)
Presentation in Zoology Department, University of Oxford, 30th Sept 2004.
Talked informally about the CogAff project and the H-CogAff architecture
Invited speaker at informal debate at Institute of Contemporary Arts on: The search for a soul.
A few slides prepared for the debate:
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/ica-soul.pdf
Invited presentation at Cafe Scientifique, Birmingham, 7th May 2004.
Invited discussant, DARPA funded Workshop on Self-aware systems Washington DC, USA, 27-28th April 2004.
Invited presentation at CPHC/BCS Grand Challenges conference, Newcastle, March 29-31 2004
Invited speaker at workshop on Architectures for Modeling Emotion: Cross-Disciplinary Foundations,
AAAI Spring symposium, Stanford March 22-24 2004.
http://homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqlc/ame04
Invited speaker at symposium on Language: cognitive, neuroscientific and dynamical systems perspectives,
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, February 20-22, 2004.
Notes from a ESF-funded workshop on models of consciousness, Sept 2003, and an invited presentation at University of York, 11th Feb 2004.
Invited presentation at University of York, 11th Feb 2004.
Talk to Cafe Scientifique, Nottingham, 27th October, 2003.
At ESF-funded Workshop on Models of Consciousness, Birmingham, 1-3 September 2003.
Invited plenary talk at ASSC7: Models and Mechanisms of Consciousness
The seventh meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness,
May 30th to June 2nd, 2003, at the University of Memphis in Memphis, Tennessee.
Invited talk at planning meeting of the UK DTI Foresight Cognitive Systems Project. London, May 14th-15th 2003.
The Thomas Reid Lecture in Computing and Philosophy
Invited keynote talk at The First European Conference on Computing and Philosophy, University of Glasgow, March 27-29, 2003.
Invited talk at DAMTP: Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics,
Cambridge University, 21st February 2003
Invited talk at Computing Laboratory at the University of Kent at Canterbury.
18th February, 2003.
Presentation at British Machine Vision symposium, London 29th Jan 2003.http://www.bmva.ac.uk/meetings/03/29jan03/jan29prog.pdf
Reverse Engineering: the Human Vision System. Biologically inspired Computer Vision Approaches
Talk at Association for Scientific Education
Also presented at DAMT (above)
White paper and slides prepared for DARPA Workshop on Cognitive Systems,
Airlie House, Warrenton, Virginia, USA, 3-6 Nov 2002.
For some reason the papers, presentations, and organisational information about that workshop are no longer available on the web.
I have copies of most of them.I was the only person invited from outside the USA to the workshop.
My recommendation, not to focus on how to design an intelligent office assistant with the capabilities of a highly competent adult (e.g. Radar O'Reilly in MASH), but instead to focus research resources on trying to replicate as much as possible of the intelligence of a young child (not a new-born infant) including, above all trying to understand the requirements, for such a system, before rushing into designs, was not accepted.
Invited presentation at launch of Birmingham Cafe Scientifique, 25th October 2002, at Midlands Art Centre.
Invited talk at Artificial Intelligence: Recollections of the pioneers.
A meeting of the Computer Conservation Society on the early days of AI in the UK, British Museum, London, 11 October 2002.
Talk (with Ron Chrisley), presented at EPSRC/BBSRC International Workshop on Biologically-Inspired Robotics:
The Legacy of W. Grey Walter 14-16 August 2002, HP Bristol Labs, UK
Invited keynote talk at Artificial Intelligence in Design conference
http://www.arch.usyd.EDU.AU/kcdc/conferences/aid02
http://www.arch.usyd.EDU.AU/kcdc/conferences/
The University of Cambridge, 15-17 July
Invited talk on emotions and architectures at the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, 19th June 2002.
Invited speaker at workshop held on St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, in April 14-16 2002, and hosted by the Jeffrey Epstein Virgin Islands Foundation.
This meeting led to a paper by Singh, Minsky and Sloman in the AI Magazine:The St. Thomas common sense symposium: designing architectures for human-level intelligence.
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/04.html#200402
Short, updated, tutorial summary added, September 2007
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/projects/cogaff/talks/#models
Introduction to key ideas of semantic models, implicit definitions and symbol tethering
March 15-16 2002: A small workshop at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, on architectures for common sense reasoning, was followed by a conference on the same topic at which the invited speakers were John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky and Aaron Sloman.Some aspects of the workshop were reported in
'An architecture of diversity for commonsense reasoning'
J. McCarthy, M. Minsky, A. Sloman, L. Gong, T. Lau, L. Morgenstern, E. T. Mueller, D. Riecken, M. Singh, and P. Singh,
in IBM Systems Journal Vol 41, no 3, 2002 pages 530--539
http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj41-3.html
"Discussion chaired by Colin Blakemore (Oxford University), the panel consists of
Professor Aaron Sloman (University of Birmingham), Dr Amanda Sharkey (University of Sheffield), and Professor Igor Aleksander (Imperial College)."
First broadcast March 2002
Open University links:
http://www.open2.net/nextbigthing/ai/ai.htm
http://www.open2.net/nextbigthing/ai/hear_the_arguments/arguments.htm
Invited tutorial presentation at IK2002: Interdisciplinary College 2002
March 1 - 8, 2002 Günne at Lake Möhne, Germany
Focus Theme: Autonomie und Emotion http://www.ik2007.de/html/ik2002.html
Four lectures presented:Slides available here.
- 1: Virtual machine architectures and their relations so physical machines. Minds and their relations to brains. Muddled ideas about emotions (and freedom).
- 2: Reactive, deliberative and meta-management layers in the human architecture, and how they might have evolved.
- 3: How the layers relate to different sorts of architectures. The COGAFF architecture-schema and the H-Cogaff proposed schematic architecture.
- 4: What are your objections? How does this relate to alternative theories? Have we accounted for everything (including qualia?). Unsolved problems: where next?
Invited talk to Oxford Consciousness Society 24th October, 2001
Invited talk Philosophy Department, Kings College London, 10th October, 2001
Talk presented at BMVC01: British Machine Vision Conference, Sept 10-13 2001.
Tutorial on Philosophical Foundations of AI, presented with Matthias Scheutz at
17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
As part of the Tutorial programme.
Sunday 5th August 2001, Seattle, Washington, USA
Invited talk, presented to Conference at Nokia Research Centre, Helsinki, on 8th June 2001
An International AI Symposium in memory of Sidney Michaelson
British Computer Society, Edinburgh Branch
Reviewed here (with pictures)
7th April 2001
Invited talk at BBSRC/EPSRC meeting to discuss a proposed new joint initiative:
Adaptive and Interactive Behaviour of Animals and Computational Systems (AIBACS),
28-29th March 2001, Abingdon
Presented at the symposium on Emotion, cognition, and affective computing,
at the AISB 2001 Convention held at the University of York, 23--24 March 2001.
Invited talk at 'Consultation' of Society of Ordained Scientists, Windsor Castle, 14-16th February, 2001.
Invited talk, Department of Computing, University of Surrey. 7th February, 2001
Invited talk at Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 30th January 2001.
Also presented in May 2000 at IRST in Trento.
Invited talk at the McDonnell Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience Oxford University, 22nd Jan 2001.
Maintained by
Aaron Sloman
School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham
