Research Seminars
Centre for Interactive Intelligent Systems Seminars
If you would like to keep informed on these and other seminars of the CIIS, please send an email to Tony Belpaeme. Note that the programme may change. Please consult this web site regularly for updates.
AY 2008-09
| Friday 14 November 2008 |
Speaker: | Joerg Wold, University of Plymouth |
| Time: | 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | Smeaton 204 | |
| Topic: | The secrets of robot football | |
| Series: | CIIS |
| Thursday 13 November 2008 |
Speaker: | J. Fernando Fontanari, University of Sao Paolo at Sao Carlos |
| Time: | 11:00am | |
| Venue: | Rowland Levinsky 304 | |
| Topic: | Cross situational algorithms for vocabulary learning: A physicist's approach | |
| Series: | CIIS |
| Friday 31 October 2008 |
Speaker: | Martin Peniak, University of Plymouth |
| Time: | 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | Smeaton 204 | |
| Topic: | Autonomous Robot Exploration of Unknown Terrain: A Model of a Mars Rover Robot | |
| Series: | CIIS |
| Friday 17 October 2008 |
Speaker: | Ehsan Honary, Airspace Robotics Consultant |
| Time: | 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | Smeaton 204 | |
| Topic: | The Hunt for Aliens: Where no Robot Has Gone Before | |
| Series: | CIIS |
AY 2007-08
| Friday 7 March 2008 |
Speaker: | Fabio Ruini and Simon Oliver, University of Plymouth |
| Time: | 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | Smeaton 200 | |
| Topic: | Plankton Classification - Swarm behaviour in MAVs | |
| Series: | CIIS |
| Friday 29 February 2008 |
Speaker: | Mark Norman, Merlin Robotics |
| Time: | 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | Smeaton 200 | |
| Topic: | Adventures with snake robots | |
| Series: | CIIS |
| Friday 8 February 2008 |
Speaker: | Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University. |
| Time: | 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | Smeaton 200 | |
| Topic: | Winning the DARPA Grand Challenge | |
| Series: | CIIS (Viedo Seminar from Google Lab) |
| Friday 7 December 2007 |
Speaker: | Paul Robinson , University of Plymouth |
| Time: | 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | Smeaton 200 | |
| Topic: | Robot Football – a goal in itself? | |
| Series: | CIIS |
| Friday 23 November 2007 |
Speaker: | Tony Pipe , University of the West of England |
| Time: | 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | Smeaton 200 | |
| Topic: | I, Service Robot: The rise of the machines? | |
| Series: | CIIS |
| Friday 9 November 2007 |
Speaker: | Will Jackson, Engineering Arts |
| Time: | 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | Smeaton 200 | |
| Topic: | Presenting Engineered Arts Ltd | |
| Series: | CIIS |
| Friday 12 October 2007 |
Speaker: | Paul Newman , University of Oxford |
| Time: | 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | Smeaton 200 | |
| Topic: | Mobile robotics | |
| Series: | CIIS |
AY 2006-07
| Friday 6 October 2006 |
Speaker: | Phil Culverhouse, University of Plymouth |
| Time: | 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | TBA | |
| Topic: | HAB Buoy: an in situ plankton recognition instrument Interactive and intelligent systems |
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| Series: | CIIS |
| Friday 20 October 2006 |
Speaker: | Guido Bugmann, University of Plymouth |
| Time: | 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | TBA | |
| Topic: | Instructing personal robots | |
| Series: | Future robotics |
| Friday 3 November 2006 |
Speaker: | Will Browne, University of Reading |
| Time: | 2pm | |
| Venue: | TBA | |
| Topic: | TBA | |
| Series: | Future robotics |
| Friday 17 November 2006 |
Speaker: | Michael Punt, University of Plymouth |
| Time: | 2pm | |
| Venue: | TBA | |
| Topic: | Cinema, Space and Robots: the value of an imaginative dimension | |
| Series: | Future robotics |
| Friday 1 December 2006 |
Speaker: | Owen Holland, University of Essex |
| Time: | 2pm | |
| Venue: | TBA | |
| Topic: | TBA | |
| Series: | Future robotics |
| Friday 16 February 2007 |
Speaker: | Tony J Prescott, Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield |
| Time: | TBA | |
| Venue: | TBA | |
| Topic: | TBA | |
| Series: | Future robotics |
| Friday 2 March 2007 |
Speaker: | Larry Bull, University of Western England, Bristol |
| Time: | 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | TBA | |
| Topic: | Towards Artificial Creativity: Open-ended Search in Interactive Evolution | |
| Series: | CIIS |
| Friday 2 February 2007 | Speaker: | Dr. Antonella De Angeli - School of Informatics, University of Manchester |
| Time: | 1.30pm – 2.30pm | |
| Venue: | Room SMB203 | |
| Topic: | Virtual companions and real enemies: An insight into verbal disinhibition in human-chatterbot interaction | |
| Series: | CIIS |
AY 2005-06
| Friday 19 May 2006 (postponed from 12 May) |
Speaker: | Prof. Chris Melhuish, University of the West of England, Bristol |
| Time: | 2.00pm - 3.30pm | |
| Venue: | Portland Square, Stonehouse LT | |
| Topic: | To be announced | |
| Series: | Future robotics |
| Wednesday 3 May 2006 |
Speaker: | Ramona Behravan, University College London |
| Time: | 12.00am - 1.30pm | |
| Venue: | Babbage 005 | |
| Topic: | A method of automatic music visualisation | |
| Series: | Computer Music Research seminar |
| Friday 28 April 2006 |
Speaker: | Dr. Joanna Bryson, University of Bath |
| Time: | 2.00pm - 3.30pm | |
| Venue: | Portland Square, Stonehouse LT | |
| Topic: | Intelligence by Design: Building and Organising Heterogenous Modular Intelligent Systems | |
| Series: | Future robotics |
| Friday 24 March 2006 |
Speaker: | Prof. Giulio Sandini, University of Genova |
| Time: | 2.00pm - 3.30pm | |
| Venue: | Scott, room 1020 | |
| Topic: | Developmental robotics | |
| Series: | Future robotics |
| Speaker: | Dr. Davide Marocco, Institute of Cognitive Science and Technologies, Rome | |
| Time: | 2.00pm - 3.30pm | |
| Venue: | SCB007 | |
| Topic: | Evolving behaviour in interactive embodied agents. From individual to social behaviour. | |
| Series: | CIIS seminar |
| Wednesday 22 February 2006 |
Speaker: | Dr Paul Robinson, University of Plymouth |
| Time: | 18.30pm - 19.30pm* | |
| Venue: | Babbage, Lecture theatre 6 | |
| Topic: | The technology and challenges of robot football | |
| Series: | IEE lecture |
| Friday 27 January 2006 |
Speaker: | Dr Tim Blackwell, Goldsmiths College, London |
| Time: | 2.00pm - 3.30pm | |
| Venue: | Portland Square, Stonehouse LT | |
| Topic: | Stigmergy and self-organisation in musical improvisation | |
| Series: | Computer Music Research seminar |
| Wednesday 25 January 2006 |
Speaker: | Dr Francisco Sepulveda, University of Essex |
| Time: | 2.00pm - 3.30pm | |
| Venue: | Portland Square, Stonehouse LT | |
| Topic: | Brain-Machine Interfaces: The next technological revolution? | |
| Series: | Computer Music Research seminar |
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