AISB Seminar/Webinar: Kerstin Dautenhahn – Social Robotics – Challenges of Assistance and Companion Robots in Real-World Applications

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AISB Seminar/Webinar #2-2021
Kerstin Dautenhahn
Social Robotics – Challenges of Assistance and Companion Robots in Real-World Applications
4 May 2021
3pm

Kerstin Dautenhahn

Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, IEEE Fellow, is Canada’s 150 Research Chair in Intelligent Roboticsat University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada. She has a joint appointment with the Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Systems Design Engineering and is cross-appointed with the David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science at University of Waterloo. She is the director of the Social and Intelligent Robotics Research Laboratory. The main research areas are Human-Robot Interaction, Social Robotics, Assistive Technology and Artificial Life. Before moving to Canada in 2018 she founded and coordinated the Adaptive Systems Research Group at University of Hertfordshire, UK for 18 years.

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AISB Seminar/Webinar: Alan Bundy – The History of the DReaM Group

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AISB Seminar/Webinar
Alan Bundy
The History of the DReaM Group
8 March 2021
5pm

 

In this first installation of the new AISB Seminar series, we welcome Prof Alan Bundy, AISB Fellow and recent awardee of the EurAI Distinguished Service Award.

Abstract: I describe the history of the DReaM Group (Discovery and Reasoning in Mathematics), which I created after my arrival at the University of Edinburgh in 1971. The group has been characterised by its diversity of approaches to the representation of and reasoning with knowledge, including: deduction; meta-level reasoning; learning, especially of new reasoning methods; representation creation and change; as well as applications to problems as diverse as formal verification, analogical blending and computational creativity.

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Alan Bundy to receive the 2020 EurAI Distinguished Service Award

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AISB Fellow Prof Alan Bundy  will receive this year’s EurAI Distinguished Service Award. This award is presented every two years to a person having contributed significantly to the advancement of AI. Nominations have to be supported by a EurAI member society such as AISB. We are very happy that our nomination was supported by EurAI leading to this remarkable award being presented to Alan Bundy.
The award will be officially announced during the opening ceremony of ECAI 2020 on Sunday, 30 August 2020 and Alan will also be honoured at both the Fellows lunch and the EurAI General Assembly.

Alan Bundy is Professor of Automated Reasoning in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. His research interests include: the automation of mathematical reasoning, with applications to reasoning about the correctness of computer software and hardware; and the automatic construction, analysis and evolution of representations of knowledge. His research combines artificial intelligence with theoretical computer science and applies this to practical problems in the development and maintenance of computing systems. He is the author of over 300 publications and has held over 60 research grants.

He is a fellow of several academic societies, including the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB). His awards include the IJCAI Research Excellence Award (2007), the CADE Herbrand Award (2007) and a CBE (2012). He was: Edinburgh’s founding Head of Informatics (1998-2001); founding Convener of UKCRC (2000-05); and a Vice President and Trustee of the British Computer Society with special responsibility for the Academy of Computing (2010-12). He was also a member of: the Hewlett-Packard Research Board (1989-91); the ITEC Foresight Panel (1994-96); both the 2001 and 2008 Computer Science RAE panels (1999-2001, 2005-8); and the Scottish Science Advisory Council (2008-12).