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Subject: [CFP] Edinburgh workshop: Robotics, Biology and Psychology
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    Edinburgh Interdisciplinary Workshop: Robotics, Biology, Psychology
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                                Last Call

!! The date (10th of March) is now confirmed and the list of speakers
   announced.


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        Interdisciplinary Workshop: Robotics, Biology, Psychology

                       Monday 10 March 1997
 
                University of Edinburgh, department of AI

                  email: mrobots-workshop@dai.ed.ac.uk
       http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/groups/mrg/workshop/ws_homepage.html

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Artificial Intelligence Robotics research is today strongly inspired
by concepts from Biology and Psychology. Robots whose architecture
and/or behaviour are biologically inspired are described as `Animats'.
As terms such as `Computational Neuroethology' and `Synthetic
Psychology' become more and more frequent in Robotics, we thought it
would be interesting to make a review of how ideas from Biology and
Psychology are applied to Robotics and to discuss if experiments in
Robotics may give some insights on biological and psychological models
in return.

The workshop will be one day long, divided into 2 sessions: 
1) ARCHITECTURES of animals and animats 
2) BEHAVIOURS of animals and animats. 
Talks with the same keywords will be given by researchers from
Robotics, Biology and Psychology. A discussion with a panel of experts
will conclude each session. 

The speakers will be:

Dr. John Hallam		(U. of Edinburgh, dept. of AI)
Prof. I.M.L. Donaldson	(U. of Edinburgh, Center for Neuroscience)
Dr. David Willshaw	(U. of Edinburgh, Center for Cognitive Science)
Dr. Tony Prescott	(U. of Sheffield, dept. of Psychology) 
Dr. Barbara Webb	(U. of Nottingham, dept. of Psychology)
Dr. David Mc Farland	(U. of Oxford, dept. of Zoology)
Dr. Brendan McGonigle	(U. of Edinburgh, dept. of Psychology) 


The workshop is FREE. Every researcher from Robotics, Biology and
Psychology is welcome (please return the registration form below).
Poster presentation of research related to the topics of the workshop
is warmly encouraged. There will be no proceedings, but a web page
will be kept with a summary of the talks and discussions, the titles
of the posters presented and a contact list of the participants.

!!! The number of places is restricted to 100 participants. !!!

For more information, see the web page:
http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/groups/mrg/workshop/ws_homepage.html

Thank you for your attention,
		Aude Billard and Auke Jan Ijspeert,
		Mobile Robots Group, Dept. of A.I., U. of Edinburgh


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FORM for PARTICIPATION:
Please return this form to mrobots-workshop@dai.ed.ac.uk 



Name:

Email:

University:

Department:

Research interests:
(will be noted on the participants list)                    


Poster presentation: yes/no

Title of the poster: 




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