CALL FOR PAPERS “Turing in Context II” Historical and Contemporary Research in Logic, Computing Machinery and AI www.computing-conference.ugent.be/tic2 10-12 October, 2012 Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Sciences and the Arts, Brussels, Belgium In the spirit of Alan Turing’s interdisciplinary research, an international meeting will be held at the Royal Flemish Academy for the Sciences and Arts, exploring recent research into the many directions brought together in his work. This meeting is the second Turing in Context event during the 2012 Turing centennial. The first was held at King’s College, Cambridge, 18-19 February 2012. It was an outreach event for…

SocialCom 2012 workshop on: Exploring Stances in Interactions: Conceptual and Practical Issues in Social Signal Processing Research http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/socialcom2012stance/ To be held as part of the Fourth ASE/IEEE International Conference on Social Computing (SocialCom 2012) Amsterdam (The Netherlands), September 3-6, 2012. (http://www.asesite.org/conferences/socialcom/2012) Workshop date: September 3, 2012 Location: Amsterdam (The Netherlands) Submission deadline: 28 May 2012 (NEW) Please notice invited Speaker: Scott Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh) http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/socialcom2012stance/speakers.html Contact: questions or submission/participation interest, please send an email to socialcom2012stance@gmail.com Goals and Topics The ability to understand stances adopted by participants during interactions is an important aspect of human social intelligence. Stances can…

The Center for Creation, Content and Technology (CCCT) at the University of Amsterdam Film, Game, Emotion, Brain summer school July 14 -21 2012 Are you a postdoctoral researcher or a final year PHD student and you want to practice envisioning and setting up interdisciplinary research projects? And are you interested in accounts of the experience of film and games from the perspectives of psychology, neuroscience, computer science or cognitive media studies? Then participate in the CCCT summer school Film, Game, Emotion and the Brain in the center of Amsterdam, July 14- 21. During this week you will work together in…

CALL FOR PAPERS PETMEI 2012 – 2nd International Workshop on Pervasive Eye Tracking and Mobile Eye-Based Interaction September 8, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States http://www.petmei.org/2012/ in conjunction with the 14th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2012) Recent developments in mobile eye tracking equipment and automated eye movement analysis point the way toward unobtrusive eye-based human-computer interfaces that are pervasively usable in everyday life. We call this new paradigm pervasive eye tracking – continuous eye monitoring and analysis 24/7. The potential applications for the ability to track and analyse eye movements anywhere and any time call for new research to further…

Call for Papers for a Special Issue of The Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence Title: Inforgs and the Infosphere: Themes from Luciano Floridi’s Philosophy of Artificial Intelligence Guest Editor: Anthony Beavers Submission Deadline: 1 July 2012 Details: The philosophy of artificial intelligence is undergoing significant transformation in the wake of new technologies and conceptual developments that are having an increasingly widespread impact on the shape of society and human life more generally. Luciano Floridi’s research on the philosophy and ethics of information represents an innovative and fruitful approach to the unprecedented philosophical issues that are arising as a…