[DevRob] First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence

[Douglas S. Blank]

[I've heard that they are looking for participation from Developmental 
Roboticists. -Doug]

    The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08)
			http://www.agi-08.org/
	       March 1-3, 2008, Memphis, Tennessee, USA

Paper Submission Deadline: Sept 30, 2007

The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was initially directly aimed
at the construction of "thinking machines" --- that is, computer
systems with humanlike general intelligence. But this task proved very
difficult, and so as steps in this direction, AI researchers focused
on producing AI systems displaying intelligence regarding specific
tasks in relatively narrow domains. In recent years, however, the
situation has been changing. More and more researchers have recognized
the necessity - and feasibility - of returning to the original goals
of the field. 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 "artificial general intelligence
(AGI)."

The purpose of the AGI-08 conference is to gather together academic
and industry researchers who are doing serious scientific and
engineering work aimed directly toward the goal of artificial general
intelligence. By putting our minds together, we will be able to move
yet more rapidly toward the creation of new and powerful artificial
minds.

Topics will include (but are not restricted to):
  *  Foundations and Theory of AGI
  *  The Role of Embodiment in AGI
  *  Key Enabling Applications for AGI
  *  Management of Complex Goal Structures
  *  Lifelong and Multi-Strategy Learning
  *  Case-by-case Problem-Solving
  *  AGI-based Natural Language Processing
  *  Connecting Sensorimotor and Concept-level Cognition
  *  Coherence of Integrative/Hybrid AGI Systems
  *  Evaluation and Comparison of AGI Projects

Organizing Committee:
  *  Stan Franklin (Chair), University of Memphis
  *  Sidney D'Mello, University of Memphis
  *  Ben Goertzel, Novamente LLC
  *  Bruce Klein, Novamente LLC
  *  Lee McCauley, University of Memphis
  *  Pei Wang, Temple University

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 Inst 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 Corp
  *  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 Inst of Science & Tech.
  *  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 AI
  *  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