From dblank at brynmawr.edu  Mon Apr  4 15:03:33 2005
From: dblank at brynmawr.edu (Douglas S. Blank)
Date: Mon Apr  4 14:54:50 2005
Subject: [DevRob] Wrap-up and additional opportunities
Message-ID: <42518F85.4060408@brynmawr.edu>

Colleagues,

Welcome! I have taken the liberty of adding your email address to a new 
mailing list, DevRob@DevelopmentalRobotics.org. If you don't want to 
participate in this list, please let me know, or visit:

http://developmentalrobotics.org/mailman/listinfo/devrob

to unsubscribe.

First, I wanted to thank each and every one of you for a productive 
meeting; it wouldn't have been possible without the energy and ideas 
that were given and discussed. Many people came from far away (was 44 
hours the record?) to participate. Thanks!

Also, thanks to Alexander Kovacs for providing a photo album of the 
workshop. You can find his pictures at:

http://cs.brynmawr.edu/DevRob05/

under "Meeting". You can also find links to your webpages on the 
Schedule page. Let me know if you want to use a different link, or if 
you have pictures you'd like to share.

Now, for some additional opportunities. There was a consensus at the end 
of the workshop that everyone wished to turn the "Working Notes" into a 
AAAI-published "Technical Report". This would make your work so that it 
can be cited. If you are interested in having your paper in such a 
collection, please read the instructions at:

http://www.aaai.org/Publications/Author/symposia-submissions.html

After reading the page and downloading the author kit, you should submit 
your paper by following the link on that page. The author kit contains a 
permission to distribute form that you must sign and mail back to AAAI.

If you want to have your paper in the Technical Report from the 
workshop, please send do the above by April 15, 2005. We will remove the 
links to your paper from Schedule soon, too.

Another point for which we seemed to have consensus was a 
community-based web page to create a repository of Simulated Worlds and 
Robots. We, therefore, invite you to participate in:

http://DevelopmentalRobotics.org

This is a "wiki wiki web" which means that you can log in and edit any 
page, and create others. The site was instigated and designed by myself 
and Patrick Beeson, and we hope that you'll join us in making a useful 
site. Along with the seeds of a repository of simulated worlds, you'll 
find a calendar and a page to list your research group.

There will be an official call for papers for a special issue of 
Connection Science soon, but put the deadline of Oct 1, 2005 on your 
schedule. We will be looking for expanded versions of papers like your 
symposium paper. This call will be open to anyone.

Finally, if you would be interested in writing a chapter in a book on 
Developmental Robotics to be published by MIT/AAAI Press, please email 
your interest to Lisa Meeden (meeden@cs.swarthmore.edu) and myself 
(dblank@cs.brynmawr.edu). These will be largely expanded chapters that 
provide insight into motivation and methodology in DevRob, as well as 
detailed descriptions of experiments and their analysis. The book could 
serve as a textbook for a seminar-style course, and should be accessible 
for those not necessarily in computer science (think psychology and 
cognitive science in addition to CS). You should let us know of your 
interest by April 15, 2005. We expect a chapter deadline sometime this Fall.

We hope you find these resources and opportunities useful!

-Doug Blank

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