ICDL'02: June 12-15, 2002

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Call For Participation

The 2nd International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL'02)
June 12 - 15, 2002 Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, MA,
USA http://www.egr.msu.edu/icdl02/

Sponsored by:
American Association for Artificial Intelligence
Cognitive Science Society
IEEE Computer Society
IEEE Neural Networks Society
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society

Invited Presentations:

Cortical Development and Learning during Vision, Recognition, and Action
(tutorial), Stephen Grossberg, Boston U.

Plasticity Contributing to Variations in Human Performance Ability,
Michael Merzenich, UCSF

Prediction-error Driven Learning: The Engine of Change in Cognitive
Development, James McClelland, CMU

How do Features of Sensory Representations Develop? Jon Kaas, Vanderbilt
U.

One Thing Follows Another: Initial State, Task, and Developmental Change
in Human Infants, Esther Thelen

Learning in Content-based Image Retrieval, Thomas S. Huang, UIUC

Humanoid Robot Models of Child Development, Rodney Brooks, MIT

Rewiring Cortex: Rules of Cortical Network Development, Mriganka Sur,
MIT

Learning Your Life: Wearables and Familiars, Alex Pentland, MIT

Development as a Source of Complexity, Jeff Elman, UCSB

The recent advances in neuroscience, cognitive science, artificial
intelligence and robotics have stimulated the birth and growth of a new
research field, known as computational autonomous mental development.
Although human mental development is a well known subject of study,
e.g., in developmental psychology, computational studies of mental
development for either machines or humans have not received sufficient
attention in the past. Computational autonomous mental development
concerns understanding of computational principles of autonomous mental
development in humans and other animals and the synthesis of
developmental programs for robots and other artificial systems. Mental
development is a process during which a brain-like natural or artificial
embodied system, under the control of its intrinsic species-specific
developmental program residing in the genes or artificially designed,
develops mental capabilities through its autonomous real-time
interactions with its environments (including its own internal
environment and components) using its own sensors and effectors. The
scope of mental development includes cognitive, behavioral, emotional
and all other mental capabilities that are exhibited by humans, higher
animals and artificial systems. Investigations of the computational
mechanisms of mental development are expected to improve our systematic
understanding of the wide variety of cognitive and behavioral
capabilities in humans and to enable autonomous development of these
highly complex capabilities by robots and other artificial systems.

ICDL-02 is the first regularly scheduled conference following the very
successful Workshop on Development and Learning (WDL), funded by NSF and
DARPA, held April 5 - 7, 2000 at Michigan State University
(http://www.cse.msu.edu/dl). Some discussion about this new direction
is available on the final report page of WDL at
http://www.cse.msu.edu/dl/. A brief discussion of the subject is
available in an article appeared in Science
(http://www.cse.msu.edu/dl/SciencePaper.pdf).

The subjects of the conference include, but not limited to

  (1) Architecture of mental development
  (2) Learning techniques that facilitate skill development
  (3) Development of visual, auditory and other sensory cortices
  (4) Development of filters and feature detectors
  (5) Neural plasticity during development
  (6) Development of value system
  (7) Development of emotion
  (8) Development of cognitive system
  (9) Coordination and integration of behaviors through development
 (10) Development of attention mechanisms
 (11) Development of vision system
 (12) Development of audition system
 (13) Development of taction system
 (14) Integration mechanisms through development
 (15) Computational models of language acquisition through development
 (16) Generation of representation during development
 (17) Integrated developmental programs or systems
 (18) Autonomous thinking behaviors through development
 (19) Development of consciousness
 (20) Robot bodies that facilitate autonomous mental development
 (21) Robots capable of autonomous mental development
 (22) Robotic techniques for mental development
 (23) Comparison of approaches to machine intelligence
 (24) Social and philosophical issues of developmental robots

General Co-Chairs:

James L. McClelland
Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition
Carnegie Mellon University

Alex P. Pentland
The Media Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Program Co-Chairs:

Jeff Elman
Department of Cognitive Science
University of California at San Diego
La Jolla, CA 92093-0515

Mriganka Sur
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Juyang Weng
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Michigan State University

Tutorial Chair:
Sridhar Mahadevan
Department of Computer Science
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Local Arrangement Chair:
Tony Jebara
The Media Laboratory
Massachusetts Institute of Technology / Columbia University

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