13th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference and
Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness
STeP 2008 is the 13th Finnish Artificial Intelligence Conference and will be held in the Helsinki University of Technology and Nokia Research Center, Finland, on August 20-22. The first day consists of conference talks, and the second and third day are for the Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness.
The conference will be co-organized by the Finnish Artificial Intelligence Society and by the Helsinki University of Technology.
The planned program of the conference is as follows:
| Wednesday, 20.8.2008 | |
| Conference sessions at Helsinki University of Technology | |
| Detailed program to be announced. See Call for Papers (CFP)! | |
| Thursday, 21.8. 2008 | |
| Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness 2008 at Nokia Research Center. | |
| 9:00 | Welcome |
| 9:15 | Introductory speech by Prof. Igor Aleksander |
| 10:00 | Coffee break |
| Session 1. Consciousness Models | |
| 10:30 | Antonio Chella: Robotanic: an externalist outlook of a robot architecture |
| 11:00 | Will Browne: Emotional cognitive steps towards consciousness |
| 11:30 | Ricardo Sanz: Systems, models and self-awareness: A SysML model of consciousness |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| Session 2. Systems and Architectures | |
| 13:00 | Ben Goertzel: Achieving advanced machine consciousness through integrative, virtually embodied artificial general intelligence |
| 13:30 | Yasuo Kinouchi: A logical model of consciousness on a neural network system with a simple abstract brain-like structure |
| 14:00 | Harri Valpola: The engine of thought – a bio-inspired mechanism for distributed selection of useful information |
| 14:30 | Uma Ramamurthy – TBA |
| 15:00 | Coffee break |
| 15:30-17:00 | Round Table Discussion |
| Friday, 22.8.2008 | |
| Nokia Workshop on Machine Consciousness 2008 at Nokia Research Center. | |
| 9:00 | Introduction to day 2 |
| Session 3. Imagination and Phenomenology | |
| 9:05 | Hugo Gravato Marques: Imagination in an anthropomimetic robot |
| 9:35 | David Gamez: A systematic approach to synthetic phenomenology |
| 10:05 | Coffee break |
| Session 4. Phenomenology and Qualia | |
| 10:30 | Riccardo Manzotti: Physical foundations of phenomenal content in a conscious machine |
| 11:00 | Germund Hesslow: Qualia and how to make a machine have them (tentative title) |
| 11:30 | Pentti Haikonen: The role of qualia in machine consciousness;nothing or everything |
| 12:00 | Lunch |
| Session 5. Realization and Testing | |
| 13:00 | Markku Åberg: Neuron microchips |
| 13:30 | Raúl Arrabales Moreno: ConsScale: A plausible test for machine consciousness ? |
| 14:00 | Emmanuel Lesser, Charles Jorgensen: A cognitive approach to silent speech recognition |
| 14:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:00-17:00 | Concluding Discussion |
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