BICA12
<p>Apr 20, 2012 08:16 AM
 
note BICA Challenge:
 
to develop<b> biologically-inspired intelligent agents that can be accepted and trusted by the</b>
<b>human society in various  roles, on  an equal footing with human agents.</b>  The
main objective of BICA 2012 is to take a significant step forward towards the
 
The topics of BICA 2012 will include (but not be limited to):
<b>- models capable of inducing the sense of presence in artifacts;</b>
 
-  the “critical mass” of a human-level learner;
-  emotional competence and social intelligence in artifacts;
 
- machine consciousness and BICA;
 
- models of perception, cognition and action;  
-  robust and scalable learning mechanisms;
-  realistic neural networks for BICA;
-  human-like episodic and semantic memory;
- metacognition in BICA;  
-  self-regulated, bootstrapped and meta-learning;  
-  language acquisition and symbol grounding;  
-  non-von-Neumann computational systems for BICA;
-  a roadmap to the BICA Challenge.
 
see list of keynote talks;
 
<b>journal BICA</b>  pub by Elsevier
and in <b> Int J of Machine Consciousness </b> pub by World Scientific
 
see organiz  committee
Mary-Anne Williams Sydney
Brandon Rohrer  at Sandia
David Noelle  UC Merced
Stan Franklin
Owen Holland  Univ of Sussex
Igor Aleksander  Imperial Col
Christian Lebiere  CMU
 
 
 
 
 
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