Understanding science

11: A meeting of minds: artificial and biological cognitive systems

Seminar date: 10 October 2003

• Introduction: The brain as the cognitive system
  Professor Sir Gabriel Horn FRS

Topic 1 Setting the scene

• Professor Richard Morris
  The nervous system: a model for intelligent cognitive systems
• Professor Lionel Tarassenko
  Biologically-inspired artificial cognitive systems
• Dr Andrew Fitzgibbon
  Visual recognition by computers

Topic 2 Prospects for exploitation

• Professor Dave Cliff
  Large-scale self-organising computers: the next 20 years
• Professor Daniel Wolpert
  The control of action in humans and robots

Topic 3 Future prospects and economic benefits

• Professor Rodney Brooks
  An artificial friend: the social dimensions of robot companions with special reference to an ageing human population
• Professor Robert Rowthorn
  Cognitive systems research: economic and social implications

The title of this document is: Understanding science: 11: A meeting of minds: artificial and biological cognitive systems
URL: http://www.cam.ac.uk/about/scienceseminars/cognition/

Seminar presented: 10/10/2003