koglist November 2005

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Call for Reviewers for CogSci2006

by CogSci2006 --Professor Ron Sun

Invitation to be a reviewer for CogSci 2006 The Twenty-Eighth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci2006) will be held July 26-29, 2006, in Vancouver, Canada. This is the premier series of conferences in cognitive science. We would like to invite you to be a reviewer for CogSci2006. Cognitive science pursues a scientific understanding of the mind through all available methodologies, notably those of anthropology, artificial intelligence, computer science, education, linguistics, logic, neuroscience, philosophy, and psychology, in whatever combinations that are most appropriate to the topic at hand. If you accept this invitation, please log on to the CogSci 2006 reviewing website at http://precisionconference.com/~cogsci to volunteer to be a reviewer, and to setup and/or update your expertise profile there (this is very important). You can use your existing ID and password (if you remember them, otherwise use the option "Look It Up"). If you are new to the system, then click on "Create Your Account". Log in, change your password, and fill in the required contact info. You will then reach your home page. Once you are there, click on the link for "My Reviewing Preferences", and then the link for "Volunteer to Become a COGSCI Reviewer". Click on "Areas of Expertise", you will be asked to provide information about your areas of expertise. Then click on "Reviewing Categories", where you should put down the number of submissions to review (for the main CogSci2006 conference --- "CogSci2006 Main Program"). Note that PC members will assign you papers that match your general areas of expertise (those keywords with proper levels of expertise) as you indicate on the reviewing website. So please provide as accurate a description (i.e., keywords with proper levels of expertise) as possible. Once you have finished specifying your reviewing preferences, select the link at the top of your home page for "Reviews in Progress" and click "Review for CogSci2006 Main Program" to familiarize yourself with that part of the site (since in the future that is where you will actually access the papers to which you have been assigned, and submit your reviews. You will be notified by email once you have been assigned papers to review. Schedule You will be given all the review assignments before Feb 15, 2006. Make sure you accept all your assignments as soon as possible, no later than Feb 15 (by indicating to the PC member who contacted you). You will submit all reviews (through the Web software) by March 3rd, 2006. For all other information about CogSci2006, see: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun/cogsci2006/ Thank you very much for your help! Best regards, --Ron Sun ======================================================== Professor Ron Sun Cognitive Science Department Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 110 Eighth Street, Carnegie 302A Troy, NY 12180, USA phone: 518-276-3409 fax: 518-276-3017 email: rsun(a)rpi.edu web: http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~rsun =======================================================

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Előadás: BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék

by Jakab Zoltán

*Előadás a BME Kognitív Tudományi Központ* *házi kollokvium sorozata keretében:* T. Kollégák, *Dr Takács Barnabás* (/Digital Elite Inc./ (www.digitalElite.net <http://www.digitalElite.net> <http://www.digitalelite.net/>) *Addressing Psychological and Cognitive Tasks Using Virtual Faces * címmel tart előadást a BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszékén. * * *Időpont:* (2005 november 7), 17.00 órai kezdettel. *Hely:* BME, Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék, Stoczek u 2, St épület III. emelet 320. (http://www.cogsci.bme.hu/DoCS/kepek/bmemap.gif) Mindenkit szeretettel várunk. *Az előadás kivonata:* Addressing Psychological and Cognitive Tasks Using Virtual Faces To mimic the quality of everyday human communication and underlying processes, future research tools for psychology and cognitive research will need to go beyond photographs, Ekman faces and simple, cartoon-like drawings, by combining the /benefits of high visual fidelity animated digital faces ////with /conversational intelligence// and the ability to ////modulate the emotions// of their users in a personalized manner. Virtual human technology, computer graphics and digital perception have made considerable advancements during the past decades leading the way to create a humanoid interface that works by utilizing the natural means of interaction, e.g. words, gestures, glances and body language instead of traditional computer devices, such as the keyboard and mouse. >From a psychological and cognitive perspective digitally animated faces require the ability to create believable digital humans capable of expressing the finest shades of emotions in a controllable manner. In addition, the same system must also be able to /read the users' emotional reactions/ and adapt the behavior of the digital human accordingly in real-time. We implemented this concept as a step towards creating a novel solution called the /Virtual Human Interface (VHI)/. The ////VHI// builds upon many years of interdisciplinary research to create a ////closed-loop model of interaction// whereas the user's internal state (emotion, level of attention, etc.) is constantly monitored and driven directly by the animated character with the purpose of creating emotional bonding. This emotional bonding then acts as a catalyst to help turning information into knowledge. In other words, our advanced user interface draws on emotions to help its users in the interaction process by intelligently tailoring its workload and constantly adapting its presentation strategies, hence the name ////affective intelligence//. *About the author* Barnabás Takács, Ph.D. works in the field of human modeling, intelligent agents, computer graphics and animation, face recognition, motion tracking and computer vision. He published over 50 scientific and technical papers and regularly lectures at universities and institutes around the world. He has spent many years in developing cutting-edge technologies for the film and entertainment industries as well as for the scientific and research community. /Digital Elite Inc./ (www.digitalElite.net <http://www.digitalElite.net> <http://www.digitalelite.net/>) was founded with the purpose of bringing real-time interactive virtual humans to every day people. Based on its technology a variety of virtual human applications have been developed and successfully deployed. Examples include digital plastic surgery (with Harvard University SPL, Boston, USA), virtual 'Buddy' for autistic children (Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., USA), animated faces for psychiatric diagnosis and emotion research (Harvard University, Boston, USA, Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest), virtual patients for anatomical ultrasound guidance (U.S. Army Advanced Telemedicine Research), and virtual teachers (U.S. Dept. of Education). Dr. TakĂĄcs is member of IEEE, ACM and the Los Angeles Chapter of SIGGRAPH.

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Előadás: BME Kognitív Tudományi Tanszék

by Jakab Zoltán

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Virtual Faces- eloadas a BME Kognitiv Tud. Tsz-en. 2005. nov 7 17,00

by Gyula Kovács

T. Kollegak, Dr Takács Barnabás (/Digital Elite Inc./ (www.digitalElite.net <http://www.digitalelite.net/>) ) Addressing Psychological and Cognitive Tasks Using Virtual Faces cimmel tart eloadast a BME Kognitiv Tudomanyi Tsz-en. Jovo hetfon, 17.00 kezdettel. az eloadas absztraktjat mellekelem. Hely: BME, Kog. Tud. Tsz, Stoczek u 2, ST épület III. emelet 320. (http://www.cogsci.bme.hu/DoCS/kepek/bmemap.gif) Mindenkit szeretettel varunk. ------------ Addressing Psychological and Cognitive Tasks Using Virtual Faces To mimic the quality of everyday human communication and underlying processes, future research tools for psychology and cognitive research will need to go beyond photographs, Ekman faces and simple, cartoon-like drawings, by combining the /benefits of high visual fidelity animated digital faces /with /conversational intelligence/ and the ability to /modulate the emotions/ of their users in a personalized manner. Virtual human technology, computer graphics and digital perception have made considerable advancements during the past decades leading the way to create a humanoid interface that works by utilizing the natural means of interaction, e.g. words, gestures, glances and body language instead of traditional computer devices, such as the keyboard and mouse. > From a psychological and cognitive perspective digitally animated faces require the ability to create believable digital humans capable of expressing the finest shades of emotions in a controllable manner. In addition, the same system must also be able to /read the users’ emotional reactions/ and adapt the behavior of the digital human accordingly in real-time. We implemented this concept as a step towards creating a novel solution called the /Virtual Human Interface (VHI)/. The /VHI/ builds upon many years of interdisciplinary research to create a /closed-loop model of interaction/ whereas the user’s internal state (emotion, level of attention, etc.) is constantly monitored and driven directly by the animated character with the purpose of creating emotional bonding. This emotional bonding then acts as a catalyst to help turning information into knowledge. In other words, our advanced user interface draws on emotions to help its users in the interaction process by intelligently tailoring its workload and constantly adapting its presentation strategies, hence the name /affective intelligence/. About the author Barnabás Takács, Ph.D. works in the field of human modeling, intelligent agents, computer graphics and animation, face recognition, motion tracking and computer vision. He published over 50 scientific and technical papers and regularly lectures at universities and institutes around the world. He has spent many years in developing cutting-edge technologies for the film and entertainment industries as well as for the scientific and research community. /Digital Elite Inc./ (www.digitalElite.net <http://www.digitalelite.net/>) was founded with the purpose of bringing real-time interactive virtual humans to every day people. Based on its technology a variety of virtual human applications have been developed and successfully deployed. Examples include digital plastic surgery (with Harvard University SPL, Boston, USA), virtual “Buddy” for autistic children (Catholic University of America, Washington D.C., USA), animated faces for psychiatric diagnosis and emotion research (Harvard University, Boston, USA, Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest), virtual patients for anatomical ultrasound guidance (U.S. Army Advanced Telemedicine Research), and virtual teachers (U.S. Dept. of Education). Dr. Takács is member of IEEE, ACM and the Los Angeles Chapter of SIGGRAPH. -- Gyula Kovács Dept. Cognitive Sciences Budapest Univ. Technology and Economics --------------------------------------- Budapest, Stoczek u 3, ST BDG III.318 Tel: 0036-1463-1176 Fax:0036-1463-1072 gkovacs(a)cogsci.bme.hu www.cogsci.bme.hu

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Talk: Budapest Mind Society

by Jakab Zoltán

Mark your calendars! Barry Loewer Department of Philosophy, Rutgers University Mental Causation: Or Something Near Enough 8 November, 2005 (Tuesday) 5 PM CEU Department of Philosophy, 1051 Budapest, Zrínyi u. 14, 4th floor, rm. 412. I defend a version of non-reductive physicalism against the criticism (due to Kim among others) that it can't account for mental causation. I argue that Kim's so called "exclusion argument" presupposes a view of causation that is, as Russell once put it, "like much that passes muster among philosophers, is a relic of a bygone age, surviving, like the monarchy, only because it is erroneously supposed to do no harm." *BMS home page:* http://philosophy.elte.hu/bms *Inquiries:* zjakab(a)cogsci.bme.hu <mailto:zjakab@cogsci.bme.hu>

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invitation to a philosophy lecture at CEU

by Krisztina Biber

***************************************** The CEU Philosophy Department and the CEU Humanities Center Cordially invite you to a Public Lecture on "RADICAL DOUBTS: THE EMERGENCE OF SKEPTICISM IN MEDIEVAL PHILOSOPHY" By Professor DOMINIK PERLER, Department of Philosophy, Humboldt University (Berlin) Chair: GYÖRGY GERÉBY, Visiting Professor, Medieval Studies department, Central European University Wednesday, November 9th, 6:45 P.M. CEU Gellner Room Abstract Since the time of Descartes, skepticism has become one of the central problems of epistemol-ogy. But why has skepticism become such a serious problem? And why do many philosophers conceive of knowledge as a relation between an "inner" world of thoughts and an "outer" world of material objects - a relation that can always be manipulated by a powerful demon? This presentation intends to show that this type of skepticism is not a "natural" philosophical problem that inevitably arises in every context, but is rather the outcome of a certain episte-mological theory that opens up a radical gap between an inner and an outer world. This gap is not to be found in ancient skepticism, nor is it just the invention of Descartes. A number of transformations in late medieval philosophy and theology led to the creation of this gap. In particular, two theoretical shifts were responsible for the emergence of radical doubts: (a) a shift from a model that takes the human mind to be a cognitive faculty "assimilating" objects in the world and becoming somehow identical to them, to a model that conceives of it as the place of inner representations, (b) a shift from a theory that takes God to be the last guarantee for successful cognition, to a theory that presents him as an absolutely free and omnipotent being, unlimited in his power and able to intervene in every cognitive process. ~*~ Dominik Perler is Professor for Theoretical Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität in Berlin. Professor Perler received his Ph.D. from the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). He was Fellow and Lecturer at All Souls College, Oxford University in 1996-7 and Professor of Phi-losophy at the University of Basel between 1997 and 2003. He held a number of visiting po-sitions at Cornell University, UCLA (Los Angeles), the University of Göttingen and Wissen-schaftskolleg zu Berlin. His research focuses on medieval and early modern philosophy in the areas of the philosophy of mind, epistemology and ontology. Professor Perler is the author of several monographs including Der propositionale Wahrheitsbegriff im 14. Jahrhundert (de Gruyter 1992), Repräsentation bei Descartes (Klostermann 1996), Theorien der Intention-alität im Mittelalter (Klostermman 2002, also in French by Vrin 2003). He has also edited and contributed to several anthologies and published countless articles in leading journals. ~ Reception to Follow ~

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Fw: Konferenciák

by Kampis

Kedves Kollegak, Boros Janostol erkezett, ajanlom figyelmetekbe, udv kgy

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Mesoudi et al/Towards a unified science of cultural evolution: BBS Call for Commentators

by Behavioral & Brain Sciences

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Please DO NOT prepare a commentary unless you eventually receive a formal invitation, indicating that it was possible to include your name on the final list, which is constructed so as to balance areas of expertise and frequency of prior commentaries in BBS. To help you decide whether you would be an appropriate commentator for this article, an electronic draft is retrievable at the URL that follows the abstract and keywords below. ======================================================================= *** TARGET ARTICLE INFORMATION *** ======================================================================= TITLE: Towards a unified science of cultural evolution AUTHORS: Alex Mesoudi, Andrew Whiten, and Kevin N. Laland ABSTRACT: We suggest that human culture exhibits key Darwinian evolutionary properties, and argue that the structure of a science of cultural evolution should share fundamental features with the structure of the science of biological evolution. This latter claim is tested by outlining the methods and approaches employed by the principal sub-disciplines of evolutionary biology and assessing whether there is an existing or potential corresponding approach to the study of cultural evolution. Existing approaches within anthropology and archaeology demonstrate a good match with the macroevolutionary methods of systematics, paleobiology and biogeography, while mathematical models derived from population genetics have been successfully developed to study cultural microevolution. Much potential exists for experimental simulations and field studies of cultural microevolution, where there are opportunities to borrow further methods and hypotheses from biology. Potential also exists for the cultural equivalent of molecular genetics in social cognitive neuroscience, although many fundamental issues have yet to be resolved. It is argued that studying culture within a unifying evolutionary framework has the potential to integrate a number of separate disciplines within the social sciences. KEYWORDS: Cultural Anthropology; Cultural Evolution; Cultural Transmission; Culture; Evolution; Evolutionary Archaeology; Evolutionary Biology; Gene-Culture Coevolution; Memes; Social Learning FULL TEXT: http://www.bbsonline.org/Preprints/Mesoudi-02092005/Referees/ ================================================================== *** IMPORTANT INSTRUCTIONS *** ================================================================== Please DO NOT respond to this email. 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ESSLLI'06 Student Session: 1st Call for Papers

by Sophia Katrenko

[Apologies for multiple postings] ******************************************************************* 1st CALL FOR PAPERS ESSLLI 2006 STUDENT SESSION July 31 – August 11, Malaga, Spain *********** Submission deadline February 1st, 2006 ****************** We are pleased to announce the Student Session of the 18th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), which will be held July 31 – August 11, in Malaga, Spain. We invite papers for oral and poster presentation from the areas of Logic, Language and Computation. The aim of the Student Session is to provide students with the opportunity to present their work in progress and get feedback from senior researchers and fellow-students. The ESSLLI Student Session invites students at any level, undergraduates as well as graduates, to submit a full paper, no longer than 7 pages (including references). Papers should be submitted with clear indication of the selected modality of presentation, i.e. oral or poster. Accepted papers will be published in the Student Session Proceedings. Papers should describe original, unpublished work, complete or in progress, that demonstrates insight, creativity and promise. Previously published papers should not be submitted. The preferred format of submission is PDF. All submissions must be accompanied by a plain text identification page, and sent to katrenko(a)science.uva.nl. Deadline for submission: February 1st, 2006. For more information about the Student Session, and for the technical details concerning submission, please visit our website at http://www.science.uva.nl/~katrenko/stus06. You may also contact one of the chairs: Janneke Huitink Sophia Katrenko j.huitink(a)phil.ru.nl katrenko(a)science.uva.nl IMPORTANT DATES: Deadline for Submission: February 1st, 2006 Notification of authors: April 1st, 2006 Proceedings Deadline: May 1st, 2006 ESSLLI: July 31 – August 11, 2006 -- Sophia Katrenko Human Computer Studies Laboratory Informatics Institute Faculty of Science Universiteit van Amsterdam Kruislaan 419, Matrix I 1098 VA Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel.: +31 20 888 4686 http://staff.science.uva.nl/~katrenko/

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Philosophy of Science Colloquium, Gabor A. Zemplen

by Laszlo E. Szabo

Philosophy of Science Colloquium Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest Room 6.54 (6th floor) Monday 4:00 PM Pazmany P. setany 1/A Budapest, Hungary Phone/Fax: (36-1) 372 2924 http://hps.elte.hu 7 November 4:00 PM 6th floor 6.54 Language: English, except if all participants speak Hungarian Gabor A. Zemplen Department of Philosophy and History of Science Budapest University of Technology and Economics The development of the Neurath-principle: unearthing the Romantic link Abstract: http://philosophy.elte.hu/colloquium/2005/November/#1 ___________________________________ The colloquium is open to everyone, including students, visitors, and faculty members from all departments! The 60-minute lecture is followed by a 10-minute break. Then we hold a 30-60-minute discussion. The participants may comment on the talks and are encouraged to initiate discussion through the Internet. The comments should be written in the language of the presentation. The organizer of the colloquium: Laszlo E. Szabo (email: leszabo(a)hps.elte.hu) -- L a s z l o E. S z a b o Theoretical Physics Research Group of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences Department of History and Philosophy of Science Eotvos University, Budapest http://hps.elte.hu/leszabo

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