FIERCES on BICA 2016

First International Early Research Career Enhancement School on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
Moscow, Russia, 22/04/2016–24/04/2016

A three-day meeting of early-career researchers (students, interns, postdocs, trainees, research staff and faculty, including young scientists from around the world) with world-recognized leading experts in the field of BICA. This School will develop future world leadership in the field by young scientists for years to come. The friendly atmosphere of excitement and opportunity will help us to initiate partnership and collaboration using roundtables, breakout groups and discussion panels. Working language of the School is English.

topics of interest
  • Models of perception, cognition and action
  • Emotionally intelligent BICA
  • Character reasoning and narrative intelligence
  • Active learning in artifacts
  • Believable autonomous social actors
  • Secure authentication of the mind
  • Benchmarks, metrics, tests and challenges for BICA
  • Fundamental theoretical questions in BICA research
  • The roadmap for the BICA Challenge
  • Future plans for fundings and collaboration