The 2nd International Conference
on Development and Learning (ICDL'02)
June 12 - 15, 2002
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (map)
Cambridge, Massachusetts USA
http://www.egr.msu.edu/icdl02/
A limited number of ICDL'02 proceedings, which include
full papers, is
available till they are all sold out. See registration page for the way
to purchase proceedings only. The proceedings are also available from
IEEE Computer Society Press.
See IEEE ICDL'02 Online Proceedings.
Sponsor: IEEE Computer Society
In technical cooperation with:
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Science Society
IEEE Neural Networks Society
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
Recent advances in artificial intelligence, cognitive science, neuroscience
and robotics have stimulated the birth and growth of a new research
field, known as computational autonomous mental development.
Although human mental development is a well known subject of study, e.g., in
developmental psychology, computational studies of mental development for
either machines or humans had not received sufficient attention in the
past.
Mental development
is a process during which a brain-like natural or artificial
embodied system, under the control of its intrinsic species-specific
developmental program residing in the genes or artificially designed,
develops mental capabilities through its autonomous real-time interactions
with its environments (including its own internal environment and
components) using its own sensors and effectors. The scope of mental
development includes cognitive, behavioral, emotional and all other mental
capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher animals and artificial
systems. Investigations of the computational mechanisms of mental
development are expected to improve our systematic understanding of the
working of the wide variety of cognitive and behavioral capabilities in humans
and to enable autonomous
development of these highly complex capabilities
by robots and other artificial systems.
ICDL-02 is the first regularly scheduled conference following the very
successful Workshop on Development and Learning (WDL), funded by NSF and
DARPA, held April 5 - 7, 2000 at Michigan State University
(http://www.cse.msu.edu/dl). Some discussion about this new direction is
available on the
final report page of WDL. A brief discussion of the subject
is available in an article appeared in Science available electronically at
http://www.cse.msu.edu/dl/SciencePaper.pdf.
An autonomous, real-time, incremental, open-ended, sensor-grounded and
effector-grounded operational mode of mental development implies that multiple
disciplines of human intelligence and artificial intelligence face many
similar research issues. Therefore, this conference series is
multidisciplinary in nature, inviting researchers from all related fields
including, but not limited to, machine intelligence, machine learning,
computer vision, speech recognition, robotics, animal learning, psychology,
neuroscience, computational intelligence, and philosophy. Although
understanding or realizing fully autonomous mode of mental development is a
goal, intermediate results toward this goal are all encouraged.
The subjects of the conference include, but not limited to
(1) Architecture of mental development
(2) Learning and training techniques that facilitate mental development
(3) Development of visual, auditory and other sensory cortices
(4) Development of filters and feature detectors
(5) Neural plasticity during development
(6) Development of value system
(7) Development of emotion
(8) Development of cognitive system
(9) Coordination and integration of behaviors through development
(10) Development of attention mechanisms
(11) Development of vision system
(12) Development of audition system
(13) Development of taction system
(14) Integration mechanisms through development
(15) Computational models of language acquisition through development
(16) Generation of representation during development
(17) Integrated developmental programs or systems
(18) Autonomous thinking behaviors through development
(19) Development of consciousness
(20) Robot bodies that facilitate autonomous mental development
(21) Robots capable of autonomous mental development
(22) Robotic techniques for mental development
(23) Comparison of approaches to machine intelligence
(24) Social and philosophical issues of developmental robots
Important Dates:
Papers and tutorial submission due: January 20, 2002
Announcement of paper acceptance or rejection: March 22, 2002 (tentative date)
Registration and program information made available: March 23 (tentative date)
Advance registration deadline and advance hotel reservation deadline: May 8, 2002
Hotel cutoff reservation date: May 25, 2002
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