[Amdnl] [publication and call for dialog] IEEE CIS Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development, Spring 2012

[Pierre-Yves Oudeyer]

Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to announce you the release of the latest issue of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development, available at:

http://www.cse.msu.edu/amdtc/amdnl/AMDNL-V9-N1.pdf

This newsletter features a stimulating dialog illustrating the high-importance of new concepts and techniques for understanding and engineering developmental social learning among humans and robots. Together with an initiation and a synthesis by Katharina Rohlfing and Britta Wrede, the newsletter features contributions from Yukie Nagaï, Andrea Thomaz, Lakshmi Gogate, Adriana Tapus, Stevo Bozinoski, Anthony Morse, Thomas Hannagan, Rachel Wu, and Helge Ritter.

Then, a new dialog initiation by Denis Mareschal challenges existing computational models of development by outlining three processes which he argues are fundamental in child development but mostly absent from models: 
• Epigenetic dynamics where gene expression is modified during ontogeny in interaction with the environment; 
• Body growth and the non-optimality of sensor fusion in infants; 
• The emotional mechanism associated with social learning, which control brain plasticity and help infants to select who to learn from.

Those of you interested in reacting to this dialog initiation are welcome to submit a response (contact pierre-yves.oudeyer at inria.fr) by September 1st, 2012. The length of each response must be between 300 and 500 words (including references).

Next to the dialogs, Angelo Cangelosi, the new chair of the IEEE AMD TC, provides an overview of the news and activities of the TC, highlighting, among other events, the coming IEEE ICDL-Epirob conference, which deadline for paper submission is 15th june: http://www.icdl-epirob.org/

Let me remind you that previous issues of the newsletter are all open-access and available at: http://www.cse.msu.edu/amdtc/amdnl/

I wish you a stimulating reading !

Best regards,

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer,
Editor of the IEEE CIS Newsletter on Autonomous Mental Development
INRIA and Ensta-ParisTech, France
http://www.pyoudeyer.com
http://flowers.inria.fr
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