**DEADLINE EXTENSION** for PAPERS for SYMPOSIA

at AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012

MOST OF THE SYMPOSIA FORMING THE CONFERENCE HAVE EXTENDED THEIR
DEADLINES FOR PAPERS. The due date for abstracts or papers for many
symposia is now ***Sunday 8 April***. However, please check the symposia
you are interested in as they may be using a different date.

For submission details please consult the individual symposium calls via
the Congress webpage identified below. All submission are handled via
individual symposia.


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The following symposia are NOT extending:

-- Computational Philosophy
-- The Machine Question: AI, Ethics, and Moral Responsibility

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The symposium on

-- Computing, Philosophy and the Question of Bio-Machine
Hybrids (= 4th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy)

is extending but the exact new date is not yet fixed. Please ignore the
2 March submission date currently on the site.

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If you are interested in the following symposia:

-- Revisiting Turing and his Test: Comprehensiveness, Qualia, and the
Real World

-- AI and Games

please contact the organizers direct.


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General information about the Congress:




AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012
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in honour of Alan Turing


July 2nd to 6th, 2012
University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK

http://events.cs.bham.ac.uk/turing12/
or via
http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb12/


organized by

*** Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence
and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)
[http://www.aisb.org.uk/]

*** International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP)
[http://www.ia-cap.org/]




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THE SYMPOSIA ARE AS FOLLOWS:

-- Mathematical Practice and Cognition II

-- Hypercomputation and Artificial Intelligence

-- Computing, Philosophy and the Question of Bio-Machine Hybrids
(4th AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy)

-- Computational Philosophy

-- Turing Arts Symposium

-- History and Philosophy of Programming
together with a Roundtable Discussion on
Philosophy of Computer Science: PoC Meets AI and Law

-- AI and Games



Symposium Group on Turing Tests and Dialogue Agents:

-- Revisiting Turing and his Test:
Comprehensiveness, Qualia, and the Real World

-- Linguistic and Cognitive Approaches To Dialog Agents (LaCATODA 2012)



Symposium Group on Social/Collective Systems, Networks and Phenomena:

-- Social Computing - Social Cognition - Social Networks
and Multiagent Systems

-- Understanding and Modelling Collective Phenomena (UMoCoP)



Symposium Group on Ethics, Morality, AI and Mind:

-- Framework for Responsible Research and Innovation in AI

-- The Machine Question: AI, Ethics, and Moral Responsibility

-- Moral Cognition & Theory of Mind



Symposium Group on Natural and Unconventional Computing:

-- Natural Computing/Unconventional Computing
and its Philosophical Significance

-- Nature-Inspired Computing and Applications: 1st Symposium (NICA)


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GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONGRESS


AISB and IACAP have joined forces to run the above Congress in 2012. The
Congress serves both as the year's AISB Convention and the year's IACAP
conference. The Congress has been inspired by a desire to honour Alan
Turing and by the broad and deep significance of Turing's work to AI, to
the philosophical ramifications of computing, and to philosophy and
computing more generally. The Congress is one of the events forming the
Alan Turing Year (http://www.mathcomp.leeds.ac.uk/turing2012/).

The intent of the Congress is to stimulate a particularly rich
interchange between AI and Philosophy on any areas of mutual interest,
whether directly addressing Turing's own research output or not.


Invited Plenary Speakers
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COLIN ALLEN

Provost Professor of Cognitive Science
and of History & Philosophy of Science
Department of Philosophy and Philosophy of Science
Indiana University,
Bloomington, IN, USA

http://www.indiana.edu/~hpscdept/people/allen.shtml


S BARRY COOPER

Professor, School of Mathematics, University of Leeds, UK
Chair of the Turing Centenary Advisory Committee


LUCIANO FLORIDI

Research Chair in Philosophy of Information
and UNESCO Chair of Information and Computer Ethics
University of Hertfordshire, UK
&
Director, Information Ethics research Group
and Fellow of St Cross College
University of Oxford, UK

http://www.philosophyofinformation.net/Introduction.html


AARON SLOMAN

Honorary Professor
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham, UK

http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/about/people/showperson.php?person_id=11


BLAY WHITBY

http://www.blaywhitby.com/

and associated with
Department of Informatics
University of Sussex, UK



In addition, Alan Turing's nephew

SIR JOHN DERMOT TURING

will give a short speech at the Congress Dinner on Thursday 5th July.



Congress Chairs
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Overall Chairs:

Anthony Beavers
Philosophy and Cognitive Science
The University of Evansville
1800 Lincoln Avenue
Evansville, Indiana 47722 USA

+1 812-488-2682
afbeavers@gmail.com

(Tony is the President of IACAP)


John Barnden
School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, B15 2TT

+44 (0)121-414-3816
J.A.Barnden@cs.bham.ac.uk except during August 2011
j.a.barnden@btinternet.com during August 2011

(John is currently Vice-Chair of AISB,
and was Chair from 2003 to 2010)




Local Chair and Deputy Programme Chair:

Dr Manfred Kerber

School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham
Birmingham, B15 2LY

M.Kerber@cs.bham.ac.uk