ICDL 2004 FINAL Call for papers DEADLINE IS TODAY - FRIDAY, MAY 21 2004 There will be absolutely no further extensions. THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING: DEVELOPING SOCIAL BRAINS The Salk Institute October 20-22, 2004 San Diego, California A Satellite Conference preceding The Annual Society for Neuroscience Conference http://www.icdl.cc The goal of the conference is to bring together leading researchers in neuroscience, machine learning, robotics, and developmental psychology, in order to gain new insights about learning and development in natural organisms and robots. The scope of developmental processes to be considered is broad, including cognitive, social, emotional, and many other skills exhibited by humans, and animals. The theme of the conference this year will be "Developing Social Brains", but other topics related to development and learning are welcome. PAPER SUBMISSION The extended submission deadline is May 21, 2004. Papers for the meeting can be submitted ONLY through the conference's web site at: http://www.icdl.cc. Papers can be submitted either as a 200 word summary or as a full paper (max 8 typeset pages). IMPORTANT: There will be NO further submission deadline extensions. SPECIAL ISSUE ON NEUROCOMPUTING Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their paper for publication in a special issue of the Neurocomputing Journal, on Development, Learning, and the Social Brain, published by Elsevier Science B.V. (http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/neucom) INVITED TALKS (Not yet confirmed) John Allman Dana Ballard Rodney Brooks Eric Courchesne Peter Dayan Jeff Elman William Greenough James L. McClelland Pietro Perona Terrence Sejnowski Joan Stiles John Watson REVIEW PROCESS All submitted papers will be reviewed by the program committee. Papers will be judged and accepted for the meeting based on the clarity with which the work is described and the relevance to the goals of the conference. All accepted papers not selected for oral talks as well as papers explicitly submitted as poster presentations will be included in one of three evening poster sessions. Authors will be notified of the presentation format of their papers by the beginning of August. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: General Chair: Javier R. Movellan: Co-Chairs: Andrea Chiba, Gedeon Deak, Jochen Triesch. Program Chair: Jochen Triesch and Tony Jebara. Program Co-Chairs: Marian Stewart-Bartlett, Gwen Ford Littlewort. Publications Chair: Gedeon Deak. ADVISORY BOARD: Jeff Elman Pat Langley James L. McClelland Sandy Pentland Terrence Sejnowski Mriganka Sur Esther Thelen Juyang Weng PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Minoru Asada Dana Ballard Luis Baumela Simon Baron-Cohen Mark Baxter Leslie Carver Jeff Cohn Kerstin Dautenhahn Kenji Doya Martha Farah Teresa Farroni Masahiro Fujita Ann Graybiel William Greenough Michael Hasselmo Shoji Itakura Hiroshi Ishiguro Robert Jacobs David Kleinfeld Mark Konishi Kang Lee Denis Mareshal Risto Miikulainen Douglas Nitz Roz Picard Steven Quartz Rajesh Rao Matthew Schlesinger Gregor Schoener Geoffrey Schoenbaum Linda Smith Olaf Sporns Luc Steels Valerie Stone Manuela Veloso Paul Verschure Christoph von der Malsburg Hiroyuki Yano CONFERENCE REGISTRATION: Register online at http://www.icdl.cc Student Registration is: $150 Non-student Registration is: $290