Documents about Proposal GC-5 'Architecture of Brain and Mind'
(Latest first)

• A non-technical 4-page Abstract of GC-5 prepared in May 2004 for a press release on the UK CRC Grand Challenges initiative (PDF)
• A draft manifesto for GC-5 to replace the initial document by Mike Denham (April 2004) PDF format.
• A slide presentation overview (PDF) is based on slides presented at the March 2004 Grand Challenges Conference.
• A very short (2 page) summary of proposal GC-5 produced for the press (with help from Professor Mark Lee) in August 2003 is here http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/gc/gc5-abstract.pdf

• The first summary report on proposal GC-5 produced in January 2003 is http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/gc/ArchitectureOfBrainAndMind.pdf

• Proposal GC-5 was one of the proposals that arose from Panel D at the November 2002 workshop workshop mentioned below. The full set of proposals assigned to Panel D can be found here.
  http://www.nesc.ac.uk/esi/events/Grand_Challenges/paneld/index.html
  (Those proposals are in different formats and not all of them indicate authors. Not all of the papers in the collection assigned to Panel D were directly relevant to GC-5.)

• The email archives for discussions of GC-5 are here: http://archives.nesc.ac.uk/gcproposal-5/ (This link no longer works)
  

Below are documents written by A.Sloman in relation to the UK CRC Grand Challenge Initiative, up to 2004.

Much of this was previously in the GC-5 web page, which was reorganised on 24 Jan 2004

• A short (2 page) summary of the challenge produced for the press in August 2003
  http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/gc/gc5-abstract.pdf

• A slightly longer summary, presented to a meeting of the UK Foresight Cognitive Systems project on 14th May 2003:
  http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/gc/foresight-cog.pdf On Wednesday 14th May 2003 I gave a presentation on this proposal to a UK Foresight Cognitive Systems workshop on grand challenges. Comments welcome.

  The sections on brain modelling need more input from neuroscientists, and many other sections still require expansion.

• A short note on Rapidly Changing Neural Connectivity written 25 Jun 2003, discussing potential significance for mechanisms under-pinning human intelligence. http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/gc/changing-nets.txt

• Draft summary of ideas from Panel D: Architecture of brain and mind: How to make a human-like robot.
  I wrote these notes in a hurry shortly after the meeting. They do not commit other members of the panel to anything, and are merely my attempt to summarise the outcome of our discussion. The notes are inevitably vague and incomplete in places. Available in two formats:
  • PDF
  • Postscript

• Possible more detailed target specification
  Added 19 Dec 2002 -- modified 14 Jan 2003.
  Some draft notes on how to provide "metrics" for progress on this sort of project, based on fairly precise qualitative criteria for progress can be found here http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/gc/targets.html.

  This arose out of discussions of the DARPA Cognitive Systems Initiative in the USA.

• My Grand Challenge submission October 2002
  My original submission. "Architecture for a mind: requirements and designs" is available in three formats:
  • PDF
  • Postscript
  • Html

• A white paper I submitted to the DARPA Cognitive Systems workshop held in Virginia in November 2002 and a slide presentation produced during the workshop can be found here:
  http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/darpa02

• My slides on architectures presented at the Stanford Symposium on Advances in Cognitive Architectures, 22-23 March 2003 (sponsored by NSF and DARPA) are here:
  http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/research/cogaff/talks/#talk24

  Details of the symposium are here: http://www.isle.org/symposia/cogarch/, including abstracts and pointers to slides or papers by speakers.

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  Aaron Sloman

Updated: 29 Dec 2006