First International Summer School
in Artificial General Intelligence
Artificial Brain Laboratory
http://ai.xmu.edu.cn/artificialbrain
Xiamen University, Xiamen, China
Main summer school: June 22 –
July 3, 2009
OpenCog Lab: July 6-9, 2009
The
Artificial Brain Laboratory at Xiamen University is pleased to offer a 2 week summer
school in Artificial General Intelligence, during the period June 22 –
July 10 2009.
The
summer school proper will be followed by a 4-day OpenCog lab, aimed at those
who wish to get hands-on experience with the OpenCog AGI toolkit, with experts
available to provide assistance.
The
course is aimed at graduate students and postdoctoral researchers, although it
may also be appropriate for some advanced undergraduates and independent or
industry researchers.
Instructors
are international researchers experienced in various areas of Artificial
General Intelligence and related fields.
The
language of instruction will be English.
The
format is loosely modeled on the International Summer School in
Cognitive Science that has been held for the last 15 years at the New
Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria (although the AGI Summer School has no
formal affiliation with that program).
Faculty
For more complete faculty biographies, click here.
|
Faculty Member |
Relevant Specialty Areas |
|
Dr.
Hugo de Garis http://ai.xmu.edu.cn/artificialbrain/degaris http://ai.xmu.edu.cn/artificialbrain |
Evolvable hardware,
evolvable neural networks, artificial brains, robotics |
|
Dr.
Ben Goertzel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Goertzel http://goertzel.org/resume.htm |
Integrative AGI architectures,
probabilistic inference, evolutionary learning, virtual worlds |
|
Dr.
Pei Wang http://www.cis.temple.edu/~pwang/ http://nars.wang.googlepages.com/home |
theory of intelligence,
reasoning, learning |
|
Dr.
Joscha Bach http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.joscha.bach |
AGI architectures, theory
of emotion and motivation |
|
Dr.
Allan Combs http://www.sourceintegralis.org/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Combs |
Consciousness research,
neuroscience |
|
Dr.
Nil Geissweiller http://sites.google.com/site/ngeiswei/Home |
Probabilistic inference,
evolutionary learning, virtual worlds |
|
Dr.
Joel Pitt http://ferrouswheel.info/cv-joelpitt.html http://www.opencog.org/wiki/Joel_Pitt |
Probabilistic inference,
attractor neural networks, virtual worlds |
Guest
Lecturers
In
addition to the primary faculty listed above, there will be several guest
lecturers giving individual lectures within the summer school:
|
Faculty Member |
Relevant Specialty Areas |
|
Dr.
Gino Yu |
AI
in Gaming |
|
Dr.
Matthew IkleÕ http://faculty.adams.edu/~moikle/Site/Research.html |
Probabilistic
Logic |
|
HyunRyong
Jung (Samsung
Electronics) |
Humanoid
robotics, robot simulation environments |
|
Lian
Ruiting (PhD
student, Xiamen University) |
Computational linguistics |
Courses
The
curriculum will consist of a set of lectures pursuing a handful of common
themes. The lecture list is
subject to revisions, but the current
version may be found at
http://goertzel.org/Courses.htm
Participation
International
participants will be selected by a Selection Committee on the basis of their
submitted documents:
á CV
á statement of purpose
Applications will be accepted up till June 1, 2009.
Participants are reminded that visiting China generally requires a visa,
which must be obtained via the Chinese consulate in oneÕs country of
citizenship. The time required to obtain
a visa may vary from one country to another, and application well in advance is
advised.
Applications should be submitted via email to ben@goertzel.org,
with "AGI Summer School"
in the header.
Questions should be directed to ben@goertzel.org
Housing and Fees
The Organizing Committee will make arrangements with local hotels to
provide accommodation at favourable prices. The fee for the workshop will include accommodation
and partial board (breakfast + dinner) for the period of the workshop, as well
as participation in all courses, participant symposia, panel discussions, and
student sessions.
For non-Chinese students, the cost
of the Summer School will be as follows,
- Tuition of $1000
- $1000 for room and board
For the OpenCog lab (the week
following the main summer school), additional tuition of $500 and room/board of
$500 will be charged.
At the moment funds for scholarships
are not available.
Chinese students should contact ben@goertzel.org for information
on costs (please email in English!)
Schedule
The schedule for each
week will be similar, but with different lectures and themes each week. The schedule will be roughly as shown
in the following tables (however, the specific assignments of courses to times
given here are preliminary and subject to change).
Saturday 6/27, an
optional trip to see sights in Xiamen will be organized, which will provide an
opportunity for group discussions in a less formal surroundings.
Week 1
|
|
6/22 |
6/23 |
6/24 |
6/25 |
6/26 |
|
|
Mon |
Tues |
Wed |
Thurs |
Fri |
|
8:30-10:00 |
AGI versus Narrow AI (Goertzel) |
The Mathematics of Universal
and General Intelligence (Goertzel) ___ OpenCogPrime Design
for AGI (Goertzel) |
OpenCog Software
Framework (Pitt / Goertzel) |
Introduction to
Probabilistic Logic Networks (Geisweiller/
Goertzel) |
OpenCog / PLN Software
Framework (Pitt) |
|
10:10-11:40 |
Approaches to Defining
and Evaluating General Intelligence (Wang) |
A Logical Model of Intelligence (Wang) |
A Logical Model of Intelligence (Wang) |
A Logical Model of Intelligence (Wang) |
Probabilistic Logical Networks:
Spatiotemporal and Intensional Inference (Geisweiller) |
|
11:40-14:30 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
|
14:30-16:00 |
The Brain as a
Neuroscientist Sees It (Combs) |
The Brain as a
Neuroscientist Sees It (Combs) |
The Nature of Conscious-ness
(Combs) |
Nonlinear Dynamics and
the Mind (Combs) |
Evolvable Neural
Networks (de Garis) |
|
16:15-17:15 |
Group discussion |
Group discussion |
Group discussion |
Group discussion |
Free time |
|
18:00-19:00 |
Dinner |
Dinner |
Dinner |
Dinner |
Dinner |
Week 2
|
|
6/29 |
6/30 |
7/1 |
7/2 |
7/3 |
|
|
Mon |
Tues |
Wed |
Thurs |
Fri |
|
8:30-10:00 |
Managing Uncertainty
with Indefinite Probabilities (IkleÕ) |
Automated Program
Learning: the MOSES Algorithm (Geisweiller) |
Humanoid Robotics for
AGI: the Nao Platform (de Garis) |
Imitation and Reinforcement Learning in Virtually Embodied Agents
Using Program Evolution (Geisweiller) ---- RIDE: A Simulator for
Robotic Intelligence Development (Jung) |
Natural Language
Processing for AGI: the RelEx Framework (Goertzel) |
|
10:10-11:40 |
Program Representation
for General Intelligence: The Reduct Toolkit for
Program Normalization (Goertzel / Geisweiller) |
Controlling Intelligent
Agents in a Virtual World: the OpenPetBrain System (Geisweiller) |
Attractor Neural Nets
and Economic Attention Allocation (Pitt) |
Artificial General
Intelligence and Gaming (Gino Yu) ---- Extending and
Customizing Virtual Worlds for AGI (Goertzel) |
Natural Language
Generation: the NLGen Framework (Goertzel / Lian Ruiting) |
|
11:40-14:30 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
|
14:30-16:00 |
Man as Machine (Bach) |
Understanding
Motivation, Emotion and Mental Representation (Bach) |
Understanding
Motivation, Emotion and Mental Representation (Bach) |
The MicroPsi
Architecture (Bach) |
Concluding Lecture /
discussion |
|
16:15-17:15 |
Group discussion |
Group discussion |
Group discussion |
Group discussion |
Free time |
|
18:00-19:00 |
Dinner |
Dinner |
Dinner |
Dinner |
Dinner |