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September 10-13, 2013, 23rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2013)

The Knowledge Technology group is going to participate in the 23rd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2013), taking place 10-13 September in Sofia, Bulgaria. The International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) is the annual flagship conference of the European Neural Network Society (ENNS). ICANN 2013 will provide an international forum for the academic and industrial community to address new challenges, share solutions and discuss future research directions in neural networks, learning systems, computational intelligence, and real-world applications.

December 11, 2012, 4pm - 6:30pm: Workshop on ICT and Robotics for Care and Service

The workshop presented results of the KSERA project for discussion and looked into future directions. Furthermore, representatives from related industries presented. KSERA's strong points are specific mobile robot applications and extensions, a human-centred approach, integration with smart home and experimental evaluation with elderly users. Venue: Konrad Zuse lecture hall, Informatics campus, Hamburg University. Find the program here.
Presentations: Raymond Cuijpers (pdf), Hadas Lewy (pdf), Mikhail Simonov (mp4), Oriol Torres (mp4), Rüdiger Höfert (mp4), Rudolphe Gelin (mp4), discussion (mp4).

WTM will co-organise the"Postgraduate Conference on Robotics and Development of Cognition" on 10 ‐12 Sep, 2012 in Lausanne, Switzerland

As a part of the Marie-Curie Actions ITN RobotDoC, the Postgraduate Conference on Robotics and Development of Cognition (RobotDoc-PhD) will be co-organised by WTM. The aim of this conference is to bring together young scientists working on developmental cognitive robotics and its core disciplines. It will be held as a satellite event of the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2012). Find further details here .

WTM will host the international workshop "Learning Multimodal Agents" on September 7th 2012

The international graduate research group CINACS, in conjunction with WTM group, will hold the international workshop "Learning Multimodal Agents" on September 7th 2012. The workshop is focused on multimodal integration in artificial cognitive systems. Find further details and the call for papers here .

April 4th, 2012: TV Report about KSERA Project

RTL-Nord, a german broadcaster, reported about the KSERA projekt. Find the video here .

March 31th, 2012: Newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt" reports about WTM research

The Hamburger Abendblatt, a german newspaper, reported about the KSERA project and the reactions of elder people on the Nao Robot. Find the pdf version of the article here .

March 3th, 2012: Newspaper "Hamburger Abendblatt" reports about WTM researcher Nils Meins and his work

A local part of the Hamburger Abendblatt reported about the work of Nils Meins with the Nao robots for the KSERA project and WTM. Find the pdf version of the article here .