6-9 March 2009
Arlington VA, U.S.A.
Hi all, The purpose of this email is to announce to the members of this list the AGI-09 conference (the Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence), which will be in March 2009 in Washington DC http://www.agi-09.org Registration is open and we're accepting papers until November 12 http://www.agi-09.org/call.php I realize the notice is short, and apologize for that! The first call for papers was sent out months ago, but it recently occurred to me that I forgot to distribute it on this mailing list, which might have some interested individuals on it. We've got an excellent programme lined up, including a much-anticipated keynote speech by Jurgen Schmidhuber, along with sessions chaired by a host of outstanding researchers including - Evaluation of AGI Systems chaired by John Laird, University of Michigan - Logic Based AI chaired by Selmer Bringsjord, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Automated Program Learning chaired by Moshe Looks, Google Research - AI in Virtual Worlds and Games chaired by Sibley Verbeck, Electric Sheep Company - AGI and Neuroscience chaired by Randal Koene, Boston University - Artificial Brains chaired by Hugo de Garis, Xiamen University - The Future of AGI chaired by Josh Hall - AGI and Serious Games chaired by David Gobel There will also be a series of pre-conference tutorials taught by leaders in the field: - OpenCyc Commonsense AI Tutorial led by Stephen Reed, former Cyc researcher & leader of Texai project - Modeling the Mind Using Logic led by Selmer Bringsjord, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute - Automated Program Learning for AGI led by Moshe Looks, Google Research - The OpenCog Framework for Integrative AGI led by Ben Goertzel, Novamente LLC - SOAR Cognitive Architecture Tutorial led by John Laird, University of Michigan - A Reinforcement Learning Perspective on AGI led by Itamar Elhanany, University of Tennessee We expect AGI-09 to be even better than AGI-08, and hope to see you there. Registration will be capped at 150, so non-paper-submitting attendees are encouraged to register soon. See you in Washington! Yours, Ben Goertzel (AGI-09 Conference Chair) and the AGI-09 Organizing Committee: - 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