6-9 March 2009
Arlington VA, U.S.A.
PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS The Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence: AGI-09 March 6-9 (Fri-Mon) 2009 Crowne Plaza Washington National Airport Arlington, Virginia The conference website AGI-09.org will be launched in July, with full details on the conference in its scientific and practical aspects. However, we are releasing this Preliminary Call for Papers to give potential contributors more lead time to work on their papers and potential attendees more time to plan their schedules. A good sense of the overall nature of the conference may be found via perusing agi-08.org. KEY DEADLINES Oct 1, 2008 - Registration Opens (attendance limited to 150) Nov 1, 2008 - Paper Submissions Jan 1, 2009 - Camera-ready Copy CONFERENCE MISSION Continuing the mission of the highly successful First AGI Conference that was held at the University of Memphis in March 2008, AGI-09 will gather an international group of leading academic and industry researchers involved i n serious scientific and engineering work aimed directly toward the goal of artificial general intelligence. This is the only major conference series devoted wholly and specifically to the creation of AI systems possessing general intelligence at the human level and ultimately beyond. By gathering together active researchers in the field, for presentation of results and discussion of ideas, we accelerate our progress toward our common goal. ARTIFICIAL GENERAL INTELLIGENCE The original goal of the AI field was the construction of "thinking machines" that is, computer systems with human-like general intelligenc e. Due to the difficulty of this task, for the last few decades the majority o f AI researchers have focused on what has been called "narrow AI" the production of AI systems displaying intelligence regarding specific, highly constrained tasks. In recent years, however, 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 back to confronting the more difficult issues of "human level intelligence" and more broadly "artificial general intelligence (AGI)." PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE FRI, MAR 6: -- Pre-conference Tutorials -- Conference Introduction and Keynote Speech -- AGI Software Demos SAT-SUN, MAR 7-8: -- Themed Sessions -- Poster Sessions -- AGI Software Demos MON, MAR 10: -- Post-conference Workshops: -- The Future of AGI, Chair: Josh Hall -- AGI and Serious Games, Co-chairs: David Gobel, DHS; Ben Goertzel, Novamente LLC THEMED SESSIONS As in AGI-08, session themes will be determined based on the number of quality papers received on each AGI-related area. However, we have lined u p the following researchers to chair sessions focusing on themes we consider very likely to receive a significant number of quality submissions. Evaluation of AGI Systems -- Chair: John Laird, University of Michigan Logic Based AI -- Chair: Selmer Bringsjord, RPI Automated Program Learning -- Chair: Moshe Looks, Google Research AI in Virtual Worlds and Games -- Chair: Sibley Verbeck, Electric Sheep Company AGI and Neuroscience -- Chair: Randal Koene, Boston University Artificial Brains -- Chair: Hugo de Garis, Xiamen University CONFERENCE SPONSORS -- University Of Memphis -- Novamente LLC -- more to be added at agi-09.org ORGANIZING COMMITTEE -- Ben Goertzel (Conference Chair), Novamente LLC -- Stan Franklin (Honorary Chair), University of Memphis -- Tsvi Achler, U. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign -- Sam S. Adams , IBM Research -- Wlodek Duch, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland -- Itamar Elhanany, University of Tennessee Knoxville -- Sandra S. Hall, AT&T Research -- Pascal Hitzler, University of Karlsruhe, Germany -- Marcus Hutter, Australian National University -- Bruce Klein, Novamente LLC -- Stephen Reed, Texai.org PROGRAM COMMITTE -- Pascal Hitzler (Co-chair), Univ of Karlsruhe, Germany -- Marcus Hutter (Co-chair), Australian National University -- Eric Baum, Baum Research Enterprises -- Mark H. Bickhard, Lehigh University -- David Dowe, Monash University, Australia -- Hugo de Garis, Xiamen University -- Wlodek Duch, Nicolaus Copernicus University -- Itamar Elhanany, University of Tennessee, Knoxville -- Dov M. Gabbay, King's College London -- Marco Gori, University of Siena -- Bert Kappen, Radboud University, Nijmegen -- Kai-Uwe Khnberger, University of Osnabrck -- Marco Wiering, University of Utrecht -- Phil Goetz, National Library of Medicine -- J. Storrs Hall, Institute for Molecular Manufacturing -- Randal Koene, Boston University -- Christian Lebiere, Carnegie Mellon University -- Soo-Young Lee, Korea Advanced Inst. of Sci. & Tech. -- Moshe Looks, Google Research -- Tim Oates, University of Maryland, Baltimore -- Jan Poland, ABB Research, Zurich -- Juergen Schmidhuber, IDSIA -- Mary-Anne William, University of Technology, Sydney PDF VERSION OF CFP www.agi-09.org/AGI-09-pCFP.pdf