2-6 July 2012
Birmingham, U.K.
**DEADLINE EXTENSION** for PAPERS for SYMPOSIA
at AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012
THE SYMPOSIA FORMING THE CONFERENCE HAVE EXTENDED THEIR DEADLINES FOR
PAPERS. The due date for abstracts or papers (depending on the Symposium)
is now ****1 March***** 2012.
For submission details please consult the individual symposium calls via
the Congress webpage identified below. All submission are handled via
individual symposia.
AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012
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in honour of Alan Turing
July 2nd to 6th, 2012
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/
or via
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb12/
organized by
*** Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)
[http://www.aisb.org.uk/]
*** International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP)
[http://www.ia-cap.org/]
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THE SYMPOSIA ARE AS FOLLOWS:
-- Mathematical Practice and Cognition II
-- Hypercomputation and Artificial Intelligence
-- Computing, Philosophy and the Question of Bio-Machine Hybrids
(4th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy)
-- Computational Philosophy
-- Turing Arts Symposium
-- History and Philosophy of Programming
together with a Roundtable Discussion on
Philosophy of Computer Science: PoC Meets AI and Law
-- AI and Games
Symposium Group on Turing Tests and Dialogue Agents:
-- Revisiting Turing and his Test:
Comprehensiveness, Qualia, and the Real World
-- Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2012)
Symposium Group on Social/Collective Systems, Networks and Phenomena:
-- Social Computing - Social Cognition - Social Networks
and Multiagent Systems
-- Understanding and Modelling Collective Phenomena (UMoCoP)
Symposium Group on Ethics, Morality, AI and Mind:
-- Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in AI
-- The Machine Question: AI, Ethics, and Moral Responsibility
-- Moral Cognition & Theory of Mind
Symposium Group on Natural and Unconventional Computing:
-- Natural Computing/Unconventional Computing
and its Philosophical Significance
-- Nature-Inspired Computing and Applications: 1st Symposium (NICA)
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GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONGRESS
AISB and IACAP have joined forces to run the above Congress in 2012. The Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical ramifications of computing, and to philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year (http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/).
The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not.
Invited Plenary Speakers
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Four invited Plenary speakers have so far been secured, namely:
COLIN ALLEN
Provost Professor of Cognitive Science
and of History & Philosophy of Science
Department of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN, USA
http://www.indiana.edu/~hpscdept/people/allen.shtml
LUCIANO FLORIDI
Research Chair in Philosophy of Information
and UNESCO Chair of Information and Computer Ethics
University of Hertfordshire, UK
&
Director, Information Ethics research Group
and Fellow of St Cross College
University of Oxford, UK
http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/Introduction.html
AARON SLOMAN
Honorary Professor
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham, UK
http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/about/people/showperson.php?person_id=11
BLAY WHITBY
http://www.blaywhitby.com/
and associated with
Department of Informatics
University of Sussex, UK
In addition, Alan Turing's nephew SIR JOHN DERMOT TURING will give a short speech at the Congress Dinner on Thursday 5th July.
Congress Chairs
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Overall Chairs:
Anthony Beavers
Philosophy and Cognitive Science
The University of Evansville
1800 Lincoln Avenue
Evansville, Indiana 47722 USA
+1 812-488-2682
afbeavers@gmail.com
(Tony is the President of IACAP)
John Barnden
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, B15 2TT
+44 (0)121-414-3816
J.A.Barnden@cs.bham.ac.uk except during August 2011
j.a.barnden@btinternet.com during August 2011
(John is currently Vice-Chair of AISB,
and was Chair from 2003 to 2010)
Local Chair and Deputy Programme Chair:
Dr Manfred Kerber
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, B15 2LY
M.Kerber@cs.bham.ac.uk