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- Subject: INTELLIGENT AUTONOMOUS AGENTS - spring-school -
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- Second anouncement: NATO Advanced Study Institute.
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- THE BIOLOGY AND TECHNOLOGY OF INTELLIGENT
- AUTONOMOUS AGENTS.
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- 1-12 March 1993. Castel Ivano (Trento) Italy.
-
- THERE ARE STILL A FEW SLOTS LEFT FOR LATE REGISTRATION.
- SEND APPLICATIONS BEFORE 1ST OF FEBRUARY TO:
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- Luc Steels
- ASI Agents
- University of Brussels (VUB)
- AI Laboratory.
- Pleinlaan 2. B-1050 Brussels - Belgium.
- Fax: 32-2-640 63 26
- Tel: 32-2-640 25 35
- Email: springschool@arti.vub.ac.be
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- An application should contain: 1. full address, including email or
- fax if possible, 2.curriculum vitae, 3. list of publications and
- if possible copies of major publications, 4. motivation why
- you would contribute to the school, 5. arguments why a scholarship
- may be justified.
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- OBJECTIVES
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- The Advanced Study Institute brings together top-level researchers and
- practitioners from the emerging field of intelligent autonomous agents
- (e.g. land-based mobile robots or autonomous undersea vehicles) in
- order to establish a solid scientific and technological foundation for
- the field. The institute will be biased towards the new methodologies
- and techniques that have recently been developed in Artificial
- Intelligence under the strong influence of biology, including
- bottom-up AI research, artificial life, neural networks, and
- techniques of emergent functionality. It stresses practical
- technological know how as well as scientific insight into the
- foundations and the implications for cognitive science and biology.
- Participants have an opportunity to gain experience in the design and
- construction of real autonomous robots capable of performing tasks
- which require intelligent behavior.
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- The registration fee for industrial participants is 45.000 Bfr. There
- is no registration fee for academic participants. Every participant
- covers their own travel and living expenses. There is a deposit on
- chargeable living expenses of 7.500 Bfr. This deposit is
- non-refundable in the case of late cancellation (after 15th february
- 1993). But will be deducted against the hotel cost. The total amount
- must be paid before 15 february 1993 otherwise there is an automatic
- cancellation. Participants are responsible for their own health or
- accident insurance.
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- Format
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- Apart from the lectures, robot laboratories will be set up at the
- institute site where it will be possible to acquire hands on
- experience in building and programming physical mobile robots.
- Computers and about 20 robots of different types will be available
- to successfully execute challenging projects. There is a competition
- for the most successful robot to be built towards the end of the
- institute. Participants will also have the opportunity to present their
- own work through posters as well as oral presentations and discussions.
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- LECTURES
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- Physical basis. Rodney Brooks (MIT AI Lab, Cambridge, Ma)
- Autonomy. Tim Smithers (VUB AI lab, Brussels, Belgium)
- Intelligence. Luc Steels (VUB AI lab, Brussels, Belgium)
- Adaptation. Carme Torras (Institute for Cybernetics, Barcelona).
- Evolution. Peter Schuster (Jena, Germany)
- Learning. Tom Mitchell (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
- Advice taking. Leslie Kaelbling (Brown University, USA).
- Cognition. Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
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- The biology of behavior. David McFarland. (Oxford, Great Britain)
- The biology of autonomy. Francesco Varela. (Ecole Polytechnique, France)
- Biological neural networks. Rodney Douglas (Oxford, Great Britain)
- Cooperating insect societies. Jean-Louis Deneubour (Univ of Brussels, ULB, Belgium)
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