50 anniversary summit of Artificial Intelligence
The discipline of Artificial Intelligence (AI) was born in the summer of 1956 at Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. Half of a century has passed, and AI has come a long way since its inception. It has turned into an important field, whose influence on our daily lives can hardly be overestimated. Many specialized AI systems exist that are at work in our cars, in our laptop computers, and in our personal and commercial technologies. There is no doubt that the impact of AI on our lives in the future will become even more general and ubiquitous.
SPEAKERS / PANELISTS
Rudolf Bannasch - Prof., Technische Universitat Berlin // CTO, EvoLogics Title: "Morphological intelligence in bionic applications"
Aude Billard - Prof., EPF-Lausanne, Switzerland Title: "From HI to AI: Transmitting human skills and knowledge to robots"
Cynthia Breazeal - Prof., Media Arts and Sciences // Director, Robotic Life Group, MIT Media Lab Title: "Socially intelligent robots"
Rodney Brooks - Director, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab // Panasonic Prof. of Robotics // CTO, iRobot Corporation Title: "AI: Where from and where to?"
Raja Chatila - Director, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group of LAAS-CNRS Title: "Cogniron: The cognitive robot companion"
Kerstin Dautenhahn - Prof., University of Hertfordshire, UK Title: "Why social intelligence matters in the design and development of intelligent robots"
Michael Dickinson - Zarem Prof. of Bioengineering and Prof. of Biology, California Institute of Technology Title: "The neural control of aerodynamics in fruit flies"
Rudiger Dillmann - Prof., University of Karlsruhe Title: "Emergent cognitive capabilities for humanoids: Robots learning senso-motor skills and task knowledge from multimodal observation of humans"
Ezequiel Di Paolo - Senior Lecturer in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, University of Sussex Panel: Modern AI: beyond 'cognition as computation'?
Rodney Douglas - Director of the Institute, and Prof. of Neuroinformatics, ETH Zurich // Visiting Prof., Computation and Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology Title: "Computations performed by collections of recurrently connected neurons and their implementation in hybrid VLSI electronic systems"
Dario Floreano - Prof., EPF-Lausanne, Switzerland Title: "Design principles for emergent cooperation and communication in robotic swarms"
Peter Fromherz - Director, Department of Membrane and Neurophysics, Max Planck Institute for Biochemistry // Prof., Experimental Biophysics, Technische Universitat Munchen Title: "Biophysical studies on brain-computer interfacing"
Luca Gambardella - Director, Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale Panel: Advertizing AI to the public and to companies - strategies and methods
Inman Harvey - Prof., University of Sussex Title: "Get a life"
Koh Hosoda - Prof., Osaka University Title: "Synergistic Intelligence: A cognitive developmental approach towards emergence of communication"
Akio Ishiguro - Prof., Tohoku University Title: "Mobiligence: The emergence of adaptive motor function through interaction among the body, brain, and environment"
Auke Ijspeert - Prof., EPF-Lausanne, Switzerland Title: "Adaptive locomotion in robots with multiple degrees of freedom"
Frederic Kaplan - Dr., Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris Panel: Modern AI: beyond 'cognition as computation'?
Alois Knoll - Prof., Technische Universitat Munchen Panel: Funding AI research - large international projects? Alternatives?
Edgar Koerner - President, Honda Research Institute Europe Panel: Advertizing AI to the public and to companies - strategies and methods
Hod Lipson - Prof., Cornell University Title: "Curious and creative machines"
Colette Maloney - Dr., Head of Unit E5: Cognition - European Commission Panel: Funding AI research - large international projects? Alternatives?
Chrystopher Nehaniv - Prof., Univ. of Hertfordshire, UK Title: "Sensorimotor experience, information and development"
Nils Nilsson - Kumagai Prof. of Engineering, Emeritus, Stanford University Title: "Routes to the AI Summit"
Kevin O'Regan - Director, Experimental Psychology Laboratory of CNRSTitle: "Consciousness" Norman Packard - President, ProtoLife Title: "Artificial cell engineering as a computational problem"
Steve Potter - Prof., Georgia Inst. of Technology Panel: The new landscape of artificial intelligence - the impact of other research areas
Giulio Sandini , David Vernon and Giorgio Metta - Prof., University of Genova Prof., University of Genova Prof., University of Genova Title: "RobotCub - Sharing a body for the advancement of AI"
Andrew Schwartz - Prof., University of Pittsburgh Title: "Useful signals from motor cortex"
Roland Siegwart - Prof., Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich Title: "The rise of robots – machines sharing the environment with natural creatures"
Metin Sitti - Prof., Carnegie Mellon University Title: "Biologically inspired miniature robots"
Luc Steels - Director, Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris // Prof., Free University of Brussel Title: "Artificial intelligence and the origins of symbolic culture"
Sebastian Thrun - Director, Stanford Artificial Intelligence Lab Title: "The future of driving"
Claes von Hofsten and Kerstin Rosander - Prof., Uppsala University, Sweden Dr., Uppsala University, Sweden Title: "The development of gaze control in human infants"
Alex Waibel - Prof., Carnegie Mellon University and University of Karlsruhe // Director, International Center for Advanced Communication Technologies Title: "Intelligent systems as mediators in human communication"
Adrianne Wortzel - Prof. of Communication Arts, New York City College of Technology // Adjunct Prof. of Mechanical Engineering, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art Title: "Archipelago.ch: The dynamic diorama"
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