News
Please note that the project ended in November 2003.
News Archive
20 November 2003 - Project Conclusions - Information Note
2 October 2003 - The Foresight Cognitive Systems InterAction Conference, IAC-03, was held at HP Laboratories, Bristol on 3-5 September. Over 100 delegates participated in the event at Bristol while many registered as "virtual delegates" to view the live webcast and contribute their own suggestions by e-mail.
Chaired by Dr John Taylor, Director General of the Research Councils, and with a keynote speech by Lord Sainsbury, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Science and Innovation, the event also featured leading experts in the field of Cognitive Systems from the UK and overseas including:
Prof Jon Hopfield Princeton University
Prof Lynn Nadel University of Arizona
Prof Terry Sejnowski The Salk Institute
Prof Mriganka Sur Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Presentations and videos from the conference can be downloaded at <http://iac03.com/downloads.html>
11 August 2003 -IAC-03 - Webcast
4 July 2003 -Cognitive Systems Project Inter Action Conference 3-5 September, HP Labs Bristol - IAC-03
Attendance by invitation only
IAC is the major output from the Cognitive Systems Project. It will:
- bring together the science issues explored during the course of the project;
- consider possibilities for collaborative research incuding areas that have already been scoped through "Grand Challenges" and Mini Challenges
- consider the wider ethical, social and economic issues that might arise from the science.
Outcomes from the conference and plans to take them forward will be published on the website in the Autumn
IAC-03 Sponsors
5 June 2003 - Life and Physical scientists held a joint workshop on 14-15 May to consider the potential for developing long term networks and collaboration and to share information about their activities and the progress of the Cognitive Systems project. The workshop was also attended by representatives of the UKCRC.
8 May 2003 - UCLA Imaging Study Reveals How Active Empathy Charges Emotions;
Physical Mimicry of Others Jump-starts Key Brain Activity
24 April 2003 - Physical Sciences Workshop at St. Johns College, Oxford, 21st March 2003
17 December 2002 - Milestones for 2003
7 October 2002 - 'Is the Brain a Machine?' - The Cognitive Systems Project hosts a debate at the BA festival.
7 October 2002 - Top academics join Cognitive Systems Project!
Prof Richard Morris (Edinburgh) and Prof Lionel Tarassenko (Oxford) have agreed to act as co-ordinators covering the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences sides, respectively.
Mike Kenward, Science Writer, is helping with technical summaries and publicity.
21 August 2002 - Join us at the BA festival of science at the University of Leicester on Tuesday 10 September 2002.
Take part in our lunchtime mini-debate "Is the brain a machine?". Commences at 1245.
12 July 2002 - The initial brainstorming meeting held in April 2002 has been followed by the first of two follow-on meetings.
At the meeting, which was held on 2 July 2002, leading computer scientists identified key themes.
These have been included in the Project Proposal.
The second meeting involving leading neuroscientists will take place on 10 September.
31 May 2002 - An initial brainstorming meeting at which the Project Proposal was developed took place on Monday 15 April 2002.
10 April 2002 - Selected people have been identified to help scope the project
The first brainstorming meeting will be in April
Events Archive
The Foresight Cognitive Systems Project Team had a presence, or were represented, at the following events:
Federation of European Neuroscience 13-17 July 2002 Paris, France
European A.I. Conference 21-26 July 2002 Lyon,France
Biologically Inspired Robotics - EPSRC/BBSRC workshop 14-16 August 2002 Bristol, UK
BA Festival of Science debate on 'Is the Brain a Machine?' 10 September 2002 Leicester, UK
Neuroscience 2002 2-7 November 2002 Orlando, Florida USA
NIPS 2002 www.nips.cc 9-14 December 2002 Vancouver, Canada
Experimental Psychology Society 6-7 January 2003 London, UK
British Neuroscience Association www.bna.org.uk 13-16 April 2003 Harrogate, UK