Pioneering British scientist Alan Turing’s 100th birthday is celebrated this year, prompting Peter Spinks to question if machines could soon pass the Turing test. If passed, this test represents the ultimate achievement in computer science: a computer which thinks like a human. IIIM’s Managing Director Dr. Kristinn R. Thorisson is positive that faster, more powerful computers will lead to computers that “think”. To read more click on theage.com.au.
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Call for Papers: AGI 2012 Conference at Oxford University
The Fifth Artificial General Intelligence Conference will be held
December 8-11 2012, at Oxford University in the UK.
Paper submissions are due July 15. Proposals for workshops and tutorials are also solicited.
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IIIM Supports Hackathon 2012 at Reykjavik University
In Hackathon 2012 – Iceland, guests from different local startups will introduce short programming challenges and describe various experiences encountered in their area of business. Participants of the event will then be set to solving these challenges during the hacking session. This event is open to students (signup required, see below), hobbyists, professionals, anybody who likes to hack on cool code.
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Research-centric Summer School in Interactive Robotics & Media
The Interactive Robots and Media Lab of NYU AD, New York University’s largest global campus, home to “IbnSina”, the world’s first arabic speaking android robot and the “FaceBots” social robots, is organizing its third international summer school, which will take place in 2012 between June 17 and July 12, with a duration of four weeks.
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