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AGIRI WORKSHOP SCHEDULE - MAY 20-21, 2006
Sponsored by Novamente LLC

7 - 8 AM	Coffee/Snacks
8:00 AM	SAT. AM - MAY 20	INTRO & KEYNOTE SPEAKER
40 min	Dr. Stan Franklin	A Cognitive Theory of Everything: The LIDA Technology as an Artificial General Intelligence
		SESSION I: AGI BACKGROUND (Mod: Dr. Ben Goertzel)
20 min	Eliezer Yudkowsky	AI as a Precise Art
20 min	Dr. Matthew Ikle'	Imprecise Probabilities and Their Role in General Intelligence
20 min	Richard Loosemore	Complexity Science and Its Implications for AGI
10 min	Break
20 min	Cassio Pennachin	Frontiers of Evolutionary Learning
20 min	Stephan Vladimir Bugaj	AGI Developmental Psychology
20 min	David Hart	Distributed Processing and Large-Scale System Engineering for AGI
20 min	Jeff Medina	Ethical and Mathematical Adventures in Coding Better Children
12 - 1:30 PM	Lunch Served
1:30 PM		SESSION II: CONTEMPORARY AGI PROJECTS (Mod: Cassio Pennachin)
40 min	Dr. Hugo de Garis	Building an Artificial Brain for Less Than $10,000
40 min	Dr. Sam S. Adams	Superstition and Forgetfulness: Essential Attributes of General Intelligence
40 min	Dr. Eric Baum	A Model of Thought and Implications for AGI
10 min	Break
40 min	Dr. Pei Wang	From NARS to a Thinking Machine
40 min	Dr. Nick Cassimatis	A Cognitive Substrate for Human-Level Intelligence
10 min	Break
40 min	Steve Grand	Machines like us
40 min	Dr. Ben Goertzel	Novamente: A Practical Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence
7:20 PM	END

7 - 9:00 AM	Coffee/Snacks
9:00 AM	SUN. AM - MAY 21	SESSION III: AGI & APPLIED COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS (Mod: Dr. Ben Goertzel)
20 min	Dr. Karl H. Pribram	Neural Networks or Neural Webs?
20 min	Michael Ross	Mining Semantic Information From Unstructured Data
20 min	Dr. Deborah Duong	Houses of Mirrors: Deeply Adaptive Designs for Machine Cognition
10 min	Dr. Alexei V Samsonovich	Self-organizing Linguistic Cognitive Maps as a Key to the Human Value and Semantic Memory Systems
10 min	Break	Topic Intro by Bruce Klein (5 min)
20 min	Dr. Thomas Rindflesch	Knowledge-Based Semantic Interpretation for Summarizing Biomedical Text
10 min	Dr. Ben Goertzel & Izabela Lyon Freire Goertzel	Using Dependency Parsing and Probabilistic Inference to Extract Gene/Protein Interactions Implicit in the Combination of Multiple Biomedical Research Abstracts
20 min	Moshe Looks	Contemporary Approaches to Symbol Grounding
20 min	Ari Heljakka	Learning Symbol Groundings via Simulated Robotics
10 min	Dr. William Sims Bainbridge	About The National Science Foundation (NSF)
12 - 1:30 PM	Lunch Served
1:30 PM		SESSION IV: PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Panel I 1:30 - 2:30 PM	How are linguistic relationships grounded in nonlinguistic reality?	Moshe Looks, Michael Ross, Dr. Thomas Rindflesch, Dr. Phil Goetz, (Mod: Dr. Ben Goertzel)
10 min	Break
Panel II 2:40 - 3:40 PM	How do we more greatly ensure responsible AGI?	Eliezer Yudkowsky, Jeff Medina, Dr. Karl H. Pribram, Ari Heljakka (Mod: Stephan Vladimir Bugaj)
20 min	Break
Panel III 4 - 6 PM	What are the bottlenecks, and how soon to AGI?	Dr. Stan Franklin, Dr. Hugo de Garis , Dr. Sam S. Adams , Dr. Eric Baum, Dr. Pei Wang, Dr. Nick Cassimatis, Steve Grand , Dr. Ben Goertzel (Mod: Dr. Phil Goetz)
6 PM	END

Note to Speakers: Speakers have a TOTAL of either 20 or 40 min. in which to speak and (if desired) do Q&A. Thus, it is suggested that speakers use their first 15 min. (or 35 min.) for speaking and the remaining 5 min. for Q&A. Also, if you have one, please provide your PowerPoint to Bruce Klein at your earliest, preferably via EMAIL, or Bruce can load your PowerPoint onto his USB storage device during the break before your presentation. Thank you!

Important Links:
Main Workshop Website: http://www.agiri.org/workshop
Directions/Hotel: http://www.agiri.org/directions.htm
Workshop Schedule: http://www.agiri.org/schedule.htm