Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems 2004
29 August - 1 September 2004, University of Stirling, Scotland, UK

BICS 2004: Outline Programme

This programme was updated 30 Sept 2004 by adding in some of the sets of slides for the tutorials and some of the plenaries.

Sunday 29 August 2004

start time end time event presenter title location
1400 onwards delegates arrive - - -
1500 1600 Tutorial Prof I Aleksander Models of Consciousness: The world scene. Slides LTB3
1600 1700 Tutorial Prof L S Smith Implementing neural models in silicon. Slides LTB3
1700 1900 Registration - - Room 2X1
1930 2200 Reception - - Room 2X1

Monday 30 August 2004

start time end time event presenter/chair title location
0800 0900 Registration - - 2X1
0900 0910 Introduction Prof L S Smith - LTB4
0910 1010 Plenary Lecture Prof R. Douglas Fifteen years of Neuromorphic Engineering: progress, problems, and prospects LTB4
1010 1100 Contributed paper session BIS1 Dr Bruce Graham Audition and Robotics LTB4
1010 1100 Contributed paper session NC1 Prof Graham Hesketh Computational Neural Network Models: 1 LTB3
1010 1100 Contributed paper session CNS1 Prof Igor Aleksander Attention and Emotion LTB2
1100 1120 Tea/Coffee - - 2X1
1120 1245 Contributed paper session BIS1 (cont'd) Dr Bruce Graham Audition and Robotics LTB4
1120 1245 Contributed paper session NC1 (cont'd) Prof Graham Hesketh Computational Neural Network Models: 1 LTB3
1120 1245 Contributed paper session CNS1 (cont'd) Prof Igor Aleksander Attention and Emotion LTB2
1245 1345 Lunch - - Atrium
1345 1545 WorkshopDr E Sánchez and C Varela(organisers) Information coding in early sensory stages 2B74
1345 1530 Contributed paper session BIS2 Prof Rodney Douglas Vision1: Neuromorphic Approaches LTB4
1345 1550 Contributed paper session NC2 Prof Erkki Oja Computational Neural Network Models: 2 LTB3
1345 1545 Contributed paper session CNS2 Prof John Taylor Representation and Modelling LTB2
1545 1615 Tea/Coffee - - 2X1
1615 1715 Plenary Prof John G Taylor Attention and Consciousness as Control System Components in the Brain. Slides. LTB4

Tuesday 31 August 2004

start time end time event presenter/chair title location
0900 1000 Plenary Lecture Dr. O Holland Computation, cognition, and control. Slides LTB4
1000 1100 Contributed paper session BIS3 Dr Steve Collins Vision 2 LTB4
1000 1100 Contributed paper session CNS3 Prof Igor Aleksander Controversies in CNS LTB2
1100 1120 Tea/Coffee - - 2X1
1120 1245 Plenary Debate Prof Leslie Smith Machine Consciousness: Does it Make Sense? LTB4
1245 1345 Lunch - - Atrium
1345 1445 Contributed paper session BIS4 Prof David Willshaw Vision 3 LTB4
1345 15:00 Contributed paper session NC4 Dr Kazushi Ikeda Software and Hardware Implementations LTB3
1345 1500 Contributed paper session CNS4 Dr Owen Holland Agent Consciousness LTB2
1500 1600 Plenary Prof G Hesketh Neural Nets: the hype and the reality, from an industrial perspective. Slides (large file) LTB4
1600 1730 Poster Session with Tea/Coffee - 2X1
1900 2200 Conference Dinner - - Stirling Management Centre

Wednesday 1 September 2004

start time end time event presenter/chair title location
0900 1000 Plenary Lecture Prof D Willshaw Self-Organisation in the Nervous System: the Establishment of Nerve Connections by an Inductive Mechanism LTB4
1000 1100 Plenary Lecture Prof E Oja Disentangling signals blindly from nonlinear mixtures LTB4
1100 1120 Tea/Coffee - - 2X1
1120 1300 Contributed paper session BIS5 Prof Rodney Douglas Neural Modelling LTB4
1120 1300 Contributed paper session NC5 Dr Amir Hussain Neural Network Applications LTB3
1120 1245 Contributed paper session CNS5 Prof Igor Aleksander Neurological Analysis LTB2
1245 1345 Lunch - - Atrium
1345 1530 Contributed paper session BIS6 Prof Leslie Smith Neuromorphic and spiking networks: BSS LTB4
1530 1550 Tea/Coffee - - 2X1
1550 1710 Contributed paper session BIS7 Prof Leslie Smith Novel approaches LTB4>

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