[Air-L] AISB/IACAP 2012 World Congress

[Mariariosaria Taddeo]

Apologies for cross-posting.

Dear Colleagues

This year the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB) http://www.aisb.org.uk/ and the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) http://www.ia-cap.org/ joined their annual congresses in honour of Alan Turing.

The AISB/IACAP 2012 World Congress will be held at the  University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
from July 2nd to 6th. 
The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan Turing and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to the philosophical and ethical ramifications of computing, and to philosophy and computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the Alan Turing Year.

The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest, whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not.

Visit the congress website for more details http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/index.php or contact the symposia organisers for information about the submission process.

The congress will host symposia (tracks) on the following topics:

     1.    Mathematical Practice and Cognition II
2.    Hypercomputation and Artificial Intelligence

3.    Computing, Philosophy and the Question of Bio-Machine Hybrids: 4th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy

4.    Computational Philosophy

5.    Turing Arts Symposium

6.    AI & Games (THIS SYMPOSIUM HAS BEEN CANCELLED)

7.    Revisiting Turing and his Test: Comprehensiveness, Qualia, and the Real World

8.    Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2012)

9.    History and Philosophy of Programming

10. Philosophy of Computer Science: PoC Meets AI and Law (Roundtable Discussion)

11. Social Computing - Social Cognition - Social Networks and Multiagent Systems

12. Understanding and Modelling Collective Phenomena (UMoCoP)

13. Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in AI

14. The Machine Question: AI, Ethics, and Moral Responsibility

15. Moral Cognition & Theory of Mind

16. Natural and Unconventional Computing

17. Information and Computer Ethics in The Age of Information Revolution

18. Nature-Inspired Computing and Applications: 1st Symposium (NICA)

-- 
Dr. Mariarosaria Taddeo
Marie Curie Fellow - University of Hertfordshire
Senior Research Associate - Information Ethics Group (IEG), University of Oxford
http://taddeo.philosophyofinformation.net/index.html