Defining Cognitive Informatics Symposium
The Symposium "Defining Cognitive Informatics" took place at the University of Vienna on January 11th, 2011.
The purpose of the symposium was to sketch and reflect the current status of the field of Cognitive Informatics from a global perspective. The insight gained from talks and discussions during the symposium will help the University of Vienna to define a profile for advertising a professorship in Cognitive Informatics, which is to be established at the Faculty of Computer Science and the Faculty of Psychology. This professorship should also play a key role in the field of Cognitive Science, which is an emerging focus in Vienna.
Programme
09:00-09:05
Opening
Heinz Engl, Vice-Rector for Research and Career Development
Chair: Wolfgang Klas, Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science
09:05-09:50
Grand challenge problems and opportunities for cognitive informatics [ download presentation ]
Gerhard Fischer, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA
10:00-10:45
Learning and intelligence in brains and machines [ download presentation ]
Tomaso Poggio, MIT, Cambridge, USA
10:55-11:40
The relation of action & perception: Learning principles in hierarchical networks [ download presentation ]
Peter König, University of Osnabrück, Germany
11:50-12:50 Buffet lunch
Chair: Germain Weber, Dean of the Facultyof Psychology
12:50-13:35
What can computer scientists learn from cognitive scientists? [ download presentation ]
Heinrich Bülthoff, Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics Tübingen, Germany
13:45-14:30
Learning cognitive symbolic systems [ download presentation ]
Mark Steedman, University of Edinburgh, UK
14:40-14:55 Coffee break
14:55-15:40
Cognitive informatics: preparing students for interdisciplinarity
Helge Ritter, University of Bielefeld, Germany
15:50-16:35
Latest development in cognitive informatics [ download presentation ]
Yingxu Wang, University of Calgary, Canada
16:45-18:00
Podium discussion:
Speakers, Vice-Rector Engl, Dean Klas, Dean Weber
MEi:CogSci Consortium:
