Hi all, Please see below for an interesting CoRe seminar tomorrow. PS. This week I'm at a Dgastuhl workshop on Robotics and Autonomous Systems, and people are loving planning!!! :-) Dan From: Sklar, Elizabeth Sent: 13 February 2017 21:34 To: Miles, Simon <simon.miles@kcl.ac.uk>; Magazzeni, Daniele <daniele.magazzeni@kcl.ac.uk> Subject: Fw: [core-seminars] CORE seminar - Wednesday 15th February 1pm, K6.63 Strand: Informational Principles of Embodied Cognition The CoRe seminar this week, "Informational Principles of Embodied Cognition", by Prof Daniel Polani (Hertfordshire) may be of interest to AIS and Planning groups. Please share with your group mailing lists! /** dr elizabeth sklar reader in computer science head of centre for robotics research (core) director of data science msc programme dept of informatics and centre for robotics research, king's college london elizabeth.sklar@kcl.ac.uk<mailto:elizabeth.sklar@kcl.ac.uk> http://nms.kcl.ac.uk/elizabeth.sklar/ **/ ________________________________ From: core-seminars-bounces@kcl.ac.uk<mailto:core-seminars-bounces@kcl.ac.uk> <core-seminars-bounces@kcl.ac.uk<mailto:core-seminars-bounces@kcl.ac.uk>> on behalf of Matthew Howard <matthew.j.howard@kcl.ac.uk<mailto:matthew.j.howard@kcl.ac.uk>> Sent: 13 February 2017 19:07 Cc: LondonRoboticsNetwork@googlegroups.com<mailto:LondonRoboticsNetwork@googlegroups.com>; core-seminars Mailman List Subject: [core-seminars] CORE seminar - Wednesday 15th February 1pm, K6.63 Strand Dear all, This is to announce the next CORE seminar on Wednesday. Please see details of the talk below. Time: 15th February 2017, 1pm Place: K6.63, Strand Campus Speaker: Prof Daniel Polani Title: Informational Principles of Embodied Cognition Abstract: While Artificial Intelligence is widely pursued in the way as to achieve certain "intelligent" behaviours in various contexts, there is increasing evidence that it can profit significantly from being considered under the perspective of understanding what the fundamental laws of cognition are. The success of biological organisms under strong constraints on consumption of energy and resources as compared to artificially engineered intelligent systems which are quite generous in the available resources indicate that there is a gap in understanding that awaits to be closed. A key in this appears to be the judicious use of embodiment and of informational resources. Especially the formalism of Shannon information has increasingly crystallized as an immensely powerful concept. Under this perspective, cognition, it turns out, is governed by mathematical laws, invariants and principles which constrain the decision-making of organisms and agents and which can be elegantly expressed in informational terms. This opens a fresh route to analyse, understand and synthesize principles of cognitive systems and their evolution. The talk will present principles, and applications to understanding the origins and evolution of cognition, consequences for cognitive organization and observations, clarify the role of embodiment in cognitive processing, and finally show some examples how these principles can be used for the generation and even discovery of new principles of autonomous behaviour in agents. Biography: Daniel Polani is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Hertfordshire. Interested in the principles behind cognition for the purpose of understanding biological and Artificial Intelligence, his main efforts concentrate on using - especially - information-theoretic principles for studying (multi-)agent and robotic systems, constructing methods for generating behaviour intrinsically and "naturally emerging" mechanisms which produce plausibly "intelligent" behaviour in artificial agents with limited sets of prior assumptions. One of his domains of particular inspiration is provided by the complexity of the RoboCup domain. He is PI in the Horizon 2020 consortia socSMCs on studying social sensorimotor contingencies in a principled way, and WiMUST, responsible for mission planning in swarms of autonomous robotic geosurveillance submarines. He is currently president-elect of the RoboCup Federation, and associate editor in a number of journals, including JAAMAS, Advances in Complex Systems, Frontiers in Computational Intelligence. 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This is intended to ensure an inclusive and productive environment and can be read here: https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.kcl.ac.uk%2Fnms%2Fevents-code-of-conduct.aspx&data=01%7C01%7Celizabeth.sklar%40kcl.ac.uk%7Cc38ef0f308dd4920a48808d454439a32%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=J6vn9Hjls0%2Bn%2BAy%2FOsDxrEF2vUqgeIGvztrxvIcCcds%3D&reserved=0 Thanks, Matthew -- Department of Informatics, King's College London, Strand Campus, Room S1.22 Strand, London, WC2R 2LS United Kingdom +44 (0) 20 7848 7578 -- Department of Informatics, King's College London, Strand Campus, Room S1.22 Strand, London, WC2R 2LS United Kingdom +44 (0) 20 7848 7578 https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnms.kcl.ac.uk%2Fmatthew.j.howard&data=01%7C01%7Celizabeth.sklar%40kcl.ac.uk%7Cc38ef0f308dd4920a48808d454439a32%7C8370cf1416f34c16b83c724071654356%7C0&sdata=%2BM%2FqGwwvKhpGJLDaAI%2BGbL38K1CjXTbQnFBy1X2tJZo%3D&reserved=0