The
Salk Institute for Biological Studies
La Jolla, California, October 20-22 2004
The goal of the conference is
to bring together leading researchers in neuroscience, machine learning,
robotics, and developmental psychology, in order to gain new insights about
learning and development in natural organisms and robots. The scope of
developmental processes to be considered is broad, including cognitive, social,
emotional, and many other skills exhibited by humans, and other animals. The
theme of the conference this year will be "Developing
Social Brains", but other topics related to development and
learning are welcome.
Despite the strides being made in each discipline, further interactions across
disciplines will serve to accelerate progress. For example, developmental
psychologists can benefit from an understanding of the computational problems
underlying the creation of machines that can perceive and interact with humans
in the real world. Researchers in robotics can learn from the way biological
systems balance learning and innate predispositions during development. Machine
learning and machine perception can provide a framework to help neuroscientists
understand neural dynamics and neural mechanisms underlying learning and
development.
ICDL-04 is the second regularly scheduled conference following the ICDL-02 conference celebrated at MIT
June 12-15 2002. The origin of these conferences traces back to the 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.
The subjects of the conference include, but not limited to:
Architectures for autonomous development and learning.
Neural plasticity during development.
Communication Robots.
Development of visual, auditory and other sensory cortices.
Learning to Interact with Humans.
Neural Basis of Social Development.
Modulatory and value systems.
Emotion.
Social Resonance.
Development of Interaction Schema.
Coordination and integration of behaviors throughout development.
Development of attention mechanisms.
Skill acquisition.
Robots capable of autonomous mental development.
Social and philosophical issues.
Computational and Robotic models of developmental disorders.
Statistical Structure of Nonverbal Communication
Robots and Animated Agents for Clinical Intervention
Selected papers
will appear in Neurocomputing, Special Issue on Development and Learning,
2007. Editors: Gedeon Deak, Tony
Jebara, Marian Bartlett.
Organizing
Committee
General Chair:
University of California San Diego
General Co-Chairs:
University of California San Diego
University of California San Diego
University of California San Diego
University of California San Diego
Program Chairs:
University of California San Diego
Columbia University
Program Co-Chairs:
University of California San Diego
University of California San Diego
Communications Chair:
University of California San Diego
Publications Chair:
University of California San Diego