Events

Speaker: Zinovi Rabinovich, University of Southampton, U.K.

Egocentric Perceptual Control (EPC) is characterised by the optimality criteria and the control task being formulated in terms of the agent's perceptions.

Speaker: Holger Hoos, the University of British Columbia

We live in interesting times - as individuals, as members of various communities and organisations, and as inhabitants of planet Earth, we face many challenges, ranging from climate change to resource limitations, from market risks and uncertainties to complex diseases.

Speaker: Chris Marriott

Humans possess many social learning mechanisms that may be unique to our species (e.g. human speech). Imitation is a social learning mechanism that ethologists believe is at least unigue to Hominidae (the great apes) if not Homo sapiens.

Speaker: Claus Strommer

Rhetorical figures in text contain a wealth of information that has largely been left untapped in natural language processing (NLP).

Speaker: Gerald Penn, University of Toronto

Speech is arguably the most basic, most natural form of communication that we engage in, so it should come as no surprise that there has been a consistent pressure to deliver spoken audio content on web pages that, in principle, can be searched through.

Speaker: Claus Strommer

Speaker: Chris Marriott, University of Waterloo

Speaker: Greg Hines, University of Waterloo

Speaker: Rita Ackerman, University of Waterloo

Speaker: Pooyan Khajehpour Tadavani, University of Waterloo