For the Public

Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2019

Robots playing soccer, lab mice, visual experiments: SCIoI members demonstrated their science and talk about their discoveries for an entire evening.

Iyad Rahwan (MPIB): How to trust a machine

MAR23 5.006 Marchstraße 23, Berlin, Germany

Thursday morning lectures Talk by Iyad Rahwan, director at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Associate Professor at the MIT Media Lab. The topic of his talk will be “How to Trust a Machine”.

PI Lecture

Jörg Raisch (SCIoI): Models for Feedback – Costs and Benefits of Simplicity

FH 315 Fraunhoferstraße 33-36, Berlin

PI Lecture Series Models for Feedback -- Cost and Benefits of Simplicity Joerg Raisch, Control Systems Group, TU Berlin Abstract: We'll start with a short introduction to feedback control. I'll emphasise that the systematic design of feedback requires a formal model of the system to be controlled, and that the choice of such a model

Matt Crosby (Imperial Collge London): Kinds of Intelligence: Testing AI on Animal Cognition Tasks

MAR23 5.006 Marchstraße 23, Berlin, Germany

Thursday morning lectures ABSTRACT: I will give a brief overview of the ongoing work of the Kinds of Intelligence team at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and then focus on the Animal-AI project. Our aim is to bring insights from comparative cognition to the AI community and facilitate work towards more general,

Stephen Cave: Intelligence as Ideology: From IQ to AI

MAR23 5.006 Marchstraße 23, Berlin, Germany

A Thursday Talk on a Friday! Dr Stephen Cave is Executive Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and Senior Research Associate in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge He earned his PhD in philosophy from Cambridge, then spent a decade in the British Foreign Office, where he served as a policy

Surjo R. Soekadar (Charité – University Medicine Berlin): Brain/Neural-Machine Interfaces for Assistance and Beyond

MAR23 5.006 Marchstraße 23, Berlin, Germany

Thursday Morning Lectures Abstract: Implementation of neural control in the application of advanced robotic systems promises restoration of autonomy and quality of life in severe paralysis. Moreover, neurotechnologies that are capable of analyzing, interpreting and modulating brain activity in real-time promise to advance our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of human brain functions. But what

Distinguished Lecture Series: William H. Warren (Brown University)

MAR23 4.064 Marchstraße 23, Berlin, Germany

Distinguished Lecture Series On 12 December 2019, Professor William H. Warren (Brown University) will kick off the SCIoI Distinguished Lecture Series. William Warren earned his undergraduate degree at Hampshire College (1976), his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Connecticut (1982), did post-doctoral work at the University of Edinburgh, and has been a professor

Adaptive Learning and Intelligent Tutor Systems: Rebecca Lazarides, Niels Pinkwart, Verena Hafner (SCIoI)

MAR23 5.006 Marchstraße 23, Berlin, Germany

Thursday Morning Lectures Abstract: In educational psychology, the benefits and limitations of adaptive learning processes are currently under debate. In computer science, Intelligent Tutor Systems (ITS) exist that are adaptive to learners' level of skills and knowledge, but it is an open research question how novel user modelling approaches and feedback strategies in ITS incorporating