Program
Created on: 02.09.2011 | Last updated on: 02.10.2011
All times given include discussion time. Speakers are expected to leave about 1/3 of time for discussion.
Monday, 03.10.2011
8:45 Bus transfer to Anatolia College (two buses)
Bus 1: “Plateia Eleftherias”, Port entrance, corner Ionos Dragoumi/Leoforos Nikis (seafront)
Bus 2: “Levkos Pyrgos” (White Tower) on Leoforos Nikis (seafront)
9:45 Welcome and introduction (Vincent C. Müller)
10:00-11:00 Keynote Hubert Dreyfus “Are we there yet? And is it what we expected?”
[Location: ACT New Building Amphitheater]
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:30 Sections (4 x 3)
| Session A (New Building, Conference Room) | Session B (Bissell Library, Teleconferencing Room) | Session C (Bissell Library, 2nd floor) | |
| Chair: Franchi | Chair: Schmidt | Chair: Morse | |
| 11:30 12:00 | Marcin Miłkowski | Tarek Richard Besold | Claudius Gros |
| Limits of Computational Explanation of Cognition | Turing Revisited | Emotional control – conditio sine qua non for advanced artificial intelligences? | |
| 12:00 12:30 | Gordana Dodig Crnkovic | Viola Schiaffonati and Mario Verdicchio | Joscha Bach |
| Info-computational Character of Morpohological Computing | The Influence of Engineering Theory and Practice on Philosophy of AI | Enactivism considered harmful | |
| 12:30 13:00 | Selmer Bringsjord and Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu | Anders Sandberg | Gagan Deep Kaur |
| Toward a Modern Geography of Minds, Machines, and Math | Feasibility of whole brain emulation | Being-in-the-AmI – Pervasive Computing from Phenomenological Perspective | |
| 13:00 13:30 | Darren Abramson | Tijn Van Der Zant, Matthijs Kouw and Lambert Schomaker | Roman Yampolskiy |
| Untangling Turing’s Response to Lady Lovelace: The Turing/Ashby Dispute | Generative Artificial Intelligence | What to Do with the Singularity Paradox? |
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Invited Talks
| Session A (New Building, Conference Room) | Session B (Bissell Library, 2nd floor) | |
| Chair: Miłkowski | Chair: Bringsjord | |
| 14:30 15:15 | Mark H. Bickhard | Brian Cantwell Smith |
| What could cognition be … if not computation, or connectionism, or dynamic systems? | The Fan Calculus Ontology for the Future of AI | |
| 15:15 16:00 | Antoni Gomila | Oron Shagrir |
| Wherein is human cognition systematic? | Computation, Implementation, Cognition |
16:00-16:30 Coffee
16:30-18:30 Sections (4 x 3)
| Session A (New Building, Conference Room) | Session B (Bissell Library, Teleconferencing Room) | Session C (Bissell Library, 2nd floor) | |
| Chair: Gros | Chair: Müller | Chair: Anderson | |
| 16:30 17:00 | Pierre Steiner | Slawomir Nasuto and Mark Bishop | Oscar Vilarroya |
| C.S. Peirce and artificial intelligence: historical heritage and theoretical stakes | Of (zombie) mice and animats | The Experion Conjecture. A Satisficing and Bricoleur Framework for Cognition | |
| 17:00 17:30 | David Davenport | Joscha Bach | Zed Adams and Chauncey Maher |
| The Two (Computational) Faces of Artificial Intelligence | Some Requirements for Cognitive Artificial Intelligence | Artificial Intentionality: Why Giving a Damn Still Matters | |
| 17:30 18:00 | Naveen Sundar Govindarajulu and Selmer Bringsjord | Istvan Berkeley | Antoine Van De Ven |
| Towards a Mechanically Verifiable Non-justificatory Proof for the Church-Turing Thesis | Machine Mentality? | Generative Models and Consciousness in Humans and Machines | |
| 18:00 18:30 | Peter Bokulich | Fabio Bonsignorio | Justin Horn, Nicodemus Hallin, Hossein Taheiri, Michael O’Rourke and Dean Edwards |
| The Physics and Metaphysics of Computation and Cognition | AI, Robotics, Neuroscience and Cognitive Sciences are aspects of or rely upon a new experimental science: the science of physical cognitive systems? | The Necessity of the Intentional Stance and Robust Intentional State-Ascription Regarding Unmanned Underwater Vehicles |
18:30-19:00 Coffee
19:00-20:00 Keynote Rolf Pfeifer, “Embodiment – powerful explanations and better robots”
[Location: ACT New Building Amphitheater]
20:00-21:30 Dinner (on site)
21:30 Bus transfer from Anatolia College
Bus 1: “Plateia Eleftherias”, Port entrance, corner Ionos Dragoumi/Leoforos Nikis (seafront)
Bus 2: “Levkos Pyrgos” (White Tower) on Leoforos Nikis (seafront)
Tuesday, 04.10.2011
8:15 Bus transfer to Anatolia College (two buses)
Bus 1: “Plateia Eleftherias”, Port entrance, corner Ionos Dragoumi/Leoforos Nikis (seafront)
Bus 2: “Levkos Pyrgos” (White Tower) on Leoforos Nikis (seafront)
9:30-11:00 Invited Talks
| Session A (New Building, Conference Room) | Session B (Bissell Library, 2nd floor) | |
| Chair: Vilarroya | Chair: Bokulich | |
| 9:30 10:15 | Aaron Sloman | Kevin O’Regan |
| The deep, barely noticed, consequences of embodiment. (Explicitly or implicitly criticising most embodiment theorists) | How to make a robot that feels | |
| 10:15 11:00 | Tom Ziemke | Ron Chrisley |
| Are robots embodied? | Computation and Qualia: Realism Without Dualism |
11:00-11:30 Coffee
11:30-13:30 Sections (5 x 3)
| Session A (New Building, Conference Room) | Session B (Bissell Library, Teleconferencing Room) | Session C (Bissell Library, 2nd floor) | |
| Chair: Steiner | Chair: Dodig-Crnkovic | Chair: Sandberg | |
| 11:30 12:00 | Daniel Susser | Micha Hersch | Raffaela Giovagnoli |
| Artificial Intelligence and the Body: Dreyfus and Bickhard on Intentionality and Agent-Environment Interaction | Life prior to neural cognition for artificial intelligence | Computational Ontology and Deontology | |
| 12:00 12:30 | Massimiliano Cappuccio | Stefano Franchi | Roman Yampolskiy |
| Inter-context frame problem and dynamics of the background | The Past, Present, and Future Encounters between Computation and the Humanities | Artificial Intelligence Safety Engineering: Why Machine Ethics is a Wrong Approach | |
| 12:30 13:00 | Harry Halpin | Colin Schmidt and Kamilla Johannsdottir | Stuart Armstrong |
| Becoming Digital: Reconciling Theories of Digital Representation and Embodiment | Simulating Self in Artifacts | Thinking inside the box: using and controlling a dangerous Oracle AI | |
| 13:00 13:30 | Malinka Ivanova | Anthony Morse | David Anderson |
| Towards Intelligent Tutoring Systems: From Knowledge Delivering to Emotion Understanding | Snap-Shots of Sensorimotor Perception | Machine Intentionality, the Moral Status of Machines, and the Composition Problem | |
| 13:30 14:00 | Sam Freed | Aziz F. Zambak | Mark Bishop, Slawomir Nasuto and Bob Coecke |
| Liberating AI from Dogmatic Models | The Frame Problem | Quantum picturalism and Searle’s Chinese room argument |
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30-15:15 Invited Talks
| Session A (New Building, Conference Room) | Session B (Bissell Library, 2nd floor) | |
| Chair: Abramson | Chair: Bishop | |
| 14:30 15:15 | Nick Bostrom | Matthias Scheutz |
| Superintelligence: The Control Problem | Does it have a mind? The urgent need for architecture-based concepts and analyses in AI |
15:30-16:30 Keynote James H. Moor, “Robots and Real World Ethics“
[Location: ACT New Building Amphitheater]
16:30 Bus transfer from Anatolia College
Bus 1: “Airport”
Bus 2: “Levkos Pyrgos” (White Tower) on Leoforos Nikis (seafront) and then “Plateia Eleftherias”, Port entrance, corner Ionos Dragoumi/Leoforos Nikis (seafront)
[The schedule emphasizes ample space for informal interaction between participants. We currently foresee 60 minutes for keynotes, 45 minutes for invited talks, 30 minutes for section talks – including discussion.]
Wednesday, 05.10.2011
9:15 Bus transfer to Anatolia College (one bus)
Stop 1: “Plateia Eleftherias”, Port entrance, corner Ionos Dragoumi/Leoforos Nikis (seafront)
Stop 2: “Levkos Pyrgos” (White Tower) on Leoforos Nikis (seafront)
The Second International Symposium on the Web and Philosophy’, 10-17:00 (Bissell Library, Ground Floor, L1).
17:00 Bus transfer from Anatolia College
Stop 1: “Levkos Pyrgos” (White Tower) on Leoforos Nikis (seafront)
Stop 2: “Plateia Eleftherias”, Port entrance, corner Ionos Dragoumi/Leoforos Nikis (seafront)