| Wednesday,
June 12, 2002 |
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| 08:00 am - 09:00
am |
Registration |
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Tutorials
are held in Room 491 of the Stratton Student Center |
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Session 0:
Tutorials |
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Tutorial
Chair: Tony Jebara |
| 09:00 am - 12:00
pm |
Tutorial 1
(invited): Cortical Development and Learning during Vision,
Recognition, and Action
Lecturer: Stephen Grossberg
Dept. of Cognitive and Neural System, Boston University |
| 10:20 am - 10:40
pm |
Coffee Break |
| 12:00 pm - 01:30
pm |
Lunch - on own |
| 01:30 pm -
04:30
pm |
Tutorial 2:
Autonomous Mental Development for Robots
Lecturer: Juyang Weng
Embodied Intelligence Lab., Michigan State University |
| 2:50 pm -
3:10 pm |
Coffee
Break |
| 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
ICDL Demo
Session (Media Laboratory) |
| 4:30 pm - 5:00 pm |
Human Design
Group
Alex Pentland
20 Ames Street, E15-383 (3rd Floor) |
| 5:00 pm - 5:30 pm |
Cognitive
Machines Group
Deb Roy
20
Ames Street, E15-483 (4th Floor)
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| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm |
Synthetic
Characters Group
Bruce Blumberg
1 Cambridge Center (5th Floor)
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| Thursday,
June 13, 2002 |
|
| 08:00 am - 09:00 am |
Registration |
| 09:00 am - 09:40 am |
Welcome |
| 09:40 am - 10:10 am |
Invited
Talk:
Cortical Plasticity Contributing to Variations in Human Performance Ability
Michael
Merzenich
Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, UCSF
|
| 10:10 am - 10:40 am |
Coffee Break |
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Session
1 Chair: Olaf Sporns |
| 10:40 am - 12:20 pm |
Session 1: Cortex, Attention and Local Processing |
| 10:40 am - 11:05 am |
A Developing Sensory Mapping for Robots
N.
Zhang, J. Weng, and Z. Zhang |
| 11:05 am - 11:30 am |
Combining Embodied Models and Empirical Research
for
Understanding the Development of Shared Attention
I.
Fasel, G. Deak, J. Triesch, and J. Movellan |
| 11:30 am - 11:55 am |
Learning to Recognize Human Action Sequences
C.
Yu, and D. Ballard |
| 11:55 am - 12:20 pm |
The Development of Gaze Following as a Bayesian
Systems Identification Problem
J. Movellan, and J.S.
Watson |
| 12:20 pm - 02:00 pm |
Lunch
- on own |
| 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm |
Invited Talk: Prediction-error
Driven Learning: The Engine of Change in Cognitive Development
James McClelland
Center
for the Neural Basis of Cognition, CMU |
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Session
2 Chair: Stephen Levinson |
| 02:30 pm - 04:00 pm |
Session 2: Classical Conditioning, Expectance and
Chaining |
| 02:30 pm - 02:55 pm |
Combining Configural and TD Learning on a Robot
D.S.
Touretzky, N.D. Daw, and E.J. Tira-Thompson |
| 02:55 pm - 03:20 pm |
Action Chaining by a Developmental Robot with a
Value System
Y. Zhang, and J. Weng |
| 03:20 pm - 03:45 pm |
A Model of an Expectancy-driven and
Analogy-making Actor
A. Kulakov, G. Stojanov, and D.
Davcec |
| 03:45 pm - 03:55 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 03:55 pm - 04:25 pm |
Invited Talk: How do Features of
Sensory Representations Develop?
Jon Kaas
Dept. of Psychology,
Vanderbilt University |
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Session
3 Chair: Christopher Prince |
| 04:25 pm - 06:00 pm |
Session 3: Poster Session
Dav: A Humanoid Robot Platform for Autonomous
Mental Development
J.D. Han, S.W. Zeng, K.Y. Tham, M.
Badgero, and
J. Weng
Extending the BDI
Model to Accelerate the Mental Development of Autistic Patients
B. Galitsky
Cortical Software Re-Use: A Computational
Principle for Cognitive Robotics
R. Reilly, and I.
Marian
Learning Effects of Robot Actions using
Temporal Assocations
P.R.
Cohen, C. Sutton, and B. Burns
An Incremental Representation of Conceptual
Symbols Using RCE Neural Network
M.L. Yuan, and M. Xie
A Developmental Principle for Robotic Hand-Eye
Coordination Skill
M.
Xie
An Evolutional Network Architecture for
Developmental Knowledge Bases
A. Saad, and A.R.M. Zaghloul
Towards
a Theory Grounded Theory of Language
C.G. Prince, E.J.
Mislivec, O.V. Kosolapaov, and
T.R. Lykken |
| 05:00 pm -
06:00 pm |
Reception |
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| Friday,
June 14, 2002 |
|
| 08:30 am - 09:00 am |
Invited Talk: One Thing
Follows Another: Initial State, Task, and Developmental Change in Human Infants
Esther
Thelen
Department of Psychology, University of Indiana |
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Session
4 Chair: Neil Berthier |
| 09:00 am - 10:15 am |
Session 4: Theory, Architecture and Performance
Metric |
| 09:00 am - 09:25 am |
A Theory for Mentally Developing Robots
J.
Weng |
| 09:25
am - 09:50 am |
Many-Layered
Learning
P.E. Utgoff, and D.J. Stracuzzi |
| 09:50 am -10:15 am |
Beyond the Turing Test: Performance Metrics for
Evaluating a Computer Simulation of the Human Mind
N.
Alvarado, S.S. Adams, S. Burbeck, and C. Latta |
| 10:15 am - 10:35 am |
Coffee Break |
| 10:35 am
- 11:05 am |
Invited Talk: Learning in
Content-based Image Retrieval
Thomas S. Huang
Beckman Institute, UIUC |
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Session
5 Chair: Dana Ballard |
| 11:05 am
- 12:20
pm |
Session 5: Representation, Discrimination and
Associative Memory |
| 11:05 am - 11:30 am |
Developmental Learning of Memory-based Perceptual
Models
Y. Ivanov, and B. Blumberg |
| 11:30 am - 11:55 am |
Learning
to Detect Multi-View Faces in Real-Time
S.Z. Li, L. Zhu, Z.Q,. Zhang, and H.T. Zhang |
| 11:55 am
- 12:20 pm |
Local Non-Negative Matrix Factorization as a
Visual Representation
T. Feng, S.Z. Li, H.Y. Shum, and
H.J. Zhang |
| 12:20
pm - 02:00 pm |
Lunch
- on own |
| 02:00 pm - 02:30 pm |
Invited Talk: Humanoid Robot
Models of Child Development
Rodney Brooks
Artificial Intelligence
Laboratory, MIT |
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Session
6 Chair: David Touretzky |
| 02:30 pm
- 03:45 pm |
Session
6: Demonstration, Imitation and Interaction
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| 02:30 pm
- 02:55 pm |
Statistical
Imitative Learning from Perceptual Data
T. Jebara, and A. Pentland |
| 02:55 pm - 03:20 pm |
Learning Prospective Pick and Place Behavior
D.
Wheeler, A.H. Fagg, and R.A. Grupen |
| 03:20 pm - 03:45 pm |
Learning Movement Sequences from Demonstration
A.
Ramesh, and M.J. Mataric |
| 03:45 pm
- 03:55 pm |
Coffee Break |
| 03:55 pm - 06:00 pm |
Session 7: Panel
Panel members: R.
Brooks, S. Grossberg,
T.S. Huang, J. Kaas, J.
McClelland, M. Merzenich,
M. Sur, A. Pentland, E. Thelen
Moderator:
J. Weng |
| 07:00 pm - 10:00 pm |
Banquet |
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| Saturday,
June 15, 2002 |
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| 08:30 am - 09:00 am |
Invited Talk: Rewiring Cortex:
Rules of Cortical Network Development
Mriganka Sur
Department
of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT
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Session
8 Chair: Paul Cohen |
| 09:00 am - 10:15 am |
Session 8: Self-organization, Timing and Scale |
| 09:00 am - 09:25 am |
Interactions Between Development and Learning
During the Acquisition of Binocular Disparity Sensitivities
M. Dominguez, and R.A. Jacobs |
| 09:25 am - 09:50 am |
Dynamic Growth Modeling of Human Cognitive
Microdevelopment
Z. Yan, and K. Fischer |
| 09:50 am - 10:15 am |
Marginal Self-organization: A Model of the Role
of Executive Processes in Learning
R. Viviani |
| 10:15 am - 10:35 am |
Coffee Break |
| 10:35 am
- 11:05 am |
Invited Talk: Learning Your Life:
Wearables and Familiars
Alex Pentland
The Media Lab, MIT |
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Session
9 Chair: Roderic Grupen |
| 11:05 am
- 12:20
pm |
Session 9: Confidence, Exploration and Maturation |
| 11:05 am - 11:30 am |
On the Development of Visual Object Memory: The
Stay/Go Decision Problem
C.T. Morrison, P. Cohen, and P.
Sebastiani |
| 11:30 am - 11:55 am |
A
Computer-based Tutoring System for Visual-Spatial Skills: Dynamically Adapting to the User’s
Developmental Range
M.W. Connell, and D.A. Stevens |
| 11:55 am
- 12:20 pm |
A
Novel Optimal Discriminant Principle in High Dimensional Spaces
Y. Guo and L. Wu |
| 12:20 pm - 02:00 pm |
Lunch
- on own |
| |
Session
10 Chair: Sam Adams |
| 02:00 pm
- 03:15 pm |
Session 10: Rewards, Shaping and Value System |
| 02:00 pm -
02:25 pm |
Dopamine, Reward Conditioning and Robot Behavior
O.
Sporns, and W.H. Alexander |
| 02:25 pm -
02:50 pm |
Dopamine
and Inference About Timing
N. Daw, A.C. Courville, and
D.S. Touretzky |
| 02:50 pm -
03:15 pm |
A Developmental Approach Accelerates Learning of
Joint Attention
Y. Nagai, M.
Asada, and K. Hosoda |
| 03:15
pm |
Conference
Adjournment
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