Hi all, It's my pleasure to announce a conference that I'm helping to co-organize...
** The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence, aka AGI-08 ** Information may be found at the website http://agi-08.org/ It will be in early March 2008 at the University of Memphis, and we have every hope it will be an historic occasion, playing a major role in crystallizing AGI as a coherent and critical field of research. While it will be in the main a technical research conference, non-academics are welcome -- anyone is welcome who is interested to learn about what is currently happening in the field of AGI. This is going to be a somewhat larger and more formally organized conference than the small AGI Workshop I helped organize in Bethesda in May 2006. The conference chair is Stan Franklin, author of "Artificial Minds" and one of the recognized leaders of the AGI field (famous among other things for his introduction of the "agents perspective" into the modern vocabulary of AI). Pei Wang, Bruce Klein and I are among the co-chairs. Research papers are solicited for presentation, the deadline is September 30. Proceedings will be published by IOS Press. On the conference web page you will find, among other things, a one-page color brochure for the conference. If you are affiliated with a university or some other institution likely to be home to folks potentially interested in AGI-08, I'd like to encourage you to print up this brochure and post it publicly. Also, you may feel free to forward this email to any relevant email lists you may come across. Or to academic email lists you may wish to forward the formal "Call for Papers" which I append at the end of this email and also in a text file attachment. The CFP is also given on the conference website at http://www.agi-08.org/overview_callforpapers.php I hope to see many members of this email list at the conference in March!! Thanks, Ben Goertzel ********* First Call for Papers The First Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08) March 1-3, 2008, at Memphis, Tennessee, USA http://www.agi-08.org Paper submission deadline: September 30, 2007 --------------------------- The field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was initially directly aimed at the construction of "thinking machines" – that is, computer systems with human-like 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)." Encouraged by the recent success of several smaller-scale AGI-Related Meetings (www.agi-08.org/related.php) we have taken the initiative to facilitate the very first international conference on AGI. The AGI-08 conference will give AGI researchers the opportunity for presenting research results and exchanging ideas on topics of common interest. During the conference, we will also discuss the possibility of creating a new organization to promote and coordinate AGI research. The conference is explicitly open to all the various techniques used in seeking to realize general intelligence – for instance, symbolic, connectionist, evolutionary, robotic, mathematical, or integrative approaches (... or new approaches that the conference organizers have never heard of!). We are particularly interested in papers describing concrete, reasonably well-fleshed-out AGI projects – meaning, research projects that: - are based on a coherent theory about "intelligence" as a whole - involve a concrete engineering plan oriented toward implementing the relevant conception of general intelligence in a computer system - have already produced some concrete results, either practical or theoretical However, we are also open to high-quality submissions that address key aspects of AGI from a purely theoretical perspective, or that discuss AGI projects at an earlier stage of development. There is a list of Suggested Topics (www.agi-08.org/suggested.php) at the conference website, though other topics are also welcomed, so long as there is a recognizable relation to AGI, as defined above. AGI-08 will be an inter-disciplinary meeting. Besides computer scientists and engineers, we also welcome researchers from cognitive science, psychology, linguistics, neuroscience, philosophy, and other allied fields. Conference Format --------------------------- A tentative schedule (www.agi-08.org/schedule.php) is available at the conference website. Briefly speaking, the conference will consist of several technical sessions, a poster session, and a few special sessions as well. Each technical session will be organized around a topic, and have time for talks, panel discussion, and general discussion. Paper Submission --------------------------- AGI-08 will accept two types of submissions: full-length papers (12 pages) and short position statements (5 pages). All submissions should be prepared using the IOS templates (www.iospress.nl/authco/instruction_crc.html), either in LaTeX or in MS Word. All the papers will be submitted electronically. The details of the submission procedure will be announced before the due date at the conference website. AGI-08 Proceedings will be published by IOS Press, a major AI publisher. All accepted papers will also be available on-line for open access. Whether an accepted paper (of either length) will be presented as a talk or as a poster will be determined by the Program Committee, in part based on paper quality as assessed by the anonymous reviewers, and in part according to the extent the paper addresses a topic of core interest to the AGI community. The acceptance of a paper is based on the assumption that one of the authors will attend the conference to present the paper. Important Due Dates --------------------------- - September 30, 2007: Paper submission - November 30, 2007: Acceptance notification - December 20, 2007: Camera-ready copy submission Organizing Committee --------------------------- Stan Franklin (Chair), franklin -at- memphis.edu Sidney D'Mello, sdmello -at- memphis.edu Ben Goertzel, ben -at- novamente.net Bruce Klein, bruce -at- novamente.net Lee McCauley, mccauley -at- memphis.edu Pei Wang, pei.wang -at- temple.edu 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 Institute 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 Corporation 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 Institute of Science & Technology 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 Artificial Intelligence 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 More information --------------------------- http://www.agi-08.org ----- This list is sponsored by AGIRI: http://www.agiri.org/email To unsubscribe or change your options, please go to: http://v2.listbox.com/member/?member_id=4007604&user_secret=8eb45b07
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