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IIIM Director and RU scientists Receive 2012 Kurzweil Award

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Kristinn R. Thórisson, IIIM Managing Director, and his collaborators Helgi Páll Helgason and Eric Nivel, have received the 2012 Kurzweil Award for Best AGI Idea. The prize was awarded for their research on attention mechanisms, and to one other paper, at this year’s AGI conference at Oxford University in Cambridge. The award was founded by the author and inventor Ray Kurzweil, who was recently appointed Google’s Director of Engineering, and is sponsored by KurzweilAI.net. Continue reading IIIM Director and RU scientists Receive 2012 Kurzweil Award →

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Rise of AI in Iceland: H+ Magazine Interview with the Thorisson Brothers who Helped Make it Happen

Recently, h+ Magazine published an article by Ben Goertzel titled “Land of Fire, Ice and Thinking Machines: The Recent Rise of AI in Iceland, and an Interview with the Thorisson Brothers who Helped Make it Happen”. In the article the author reviews the recent history of AI in Iceland and presents an interview with Kristinn R. Thórisson and Hrafn Thorri Thórisson. In this interview they go into some detail on their own backgrounds and ideas, as well as the rise of Icelandic AI. This article makes an interesting read for both those who are curious about AI and the connoisseurs of the field.  Continue reading Rise of AI in Iceland: H+ Magazine Interview with the Thorisson Brothers who Helped Make it Happen →

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Call for Papers – General Intelligence in Embodied Agents: Special Session in IEEE Symposium on Human-Level AI

A conference session on General Intelligence in Embodied Agents, as part of an IEEE Symposium on Human-Level AI will be held April 15-19, 2013 in Singapore.

Call for Papers: PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 23, no extensions given.

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BICA 2012 – Dr. Kristinn R. Thórisson gives Keynote Talk

The Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture (BICA) will be held from October 31st until November 3rd in Palermo, Italy.

The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind, known as the BICA Challenge, calls for joint efforts to develop biologically-inspired intelligent agents that can be accepted and trusted in various roles by the human society, and putting them on equal footing with human agents. The main objective of BICA 2012 is to take a significant step forward towards the BICA Challenge.  Continue reading BICA 2012 – Dr. Kristinn R. Thórisson gives Keynote Talk →