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Autonomous Mental Development TC

Name

This organization is known as the Autonomous Mental Development Technical Committee (AMDTC) of the Computational Intelligence Society (CIS) of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, Inc. (IEEE).

Purpose and Scope

The purpose of the AMDTC is to promote the research, development, education, and understanding of autonomous mental development technology, including the creation of biological autonomous mental development models and the applications of artificial mental-development systems that are partially or fully autonomous.

Membership

The AMDTC is open to all members of the CIS, as well as to other technical professionals as affiliates. There are three grades of members: active, non-active, and affiliate. Active members are those who regularly participate in AMDTC activities and meetings and shall be eligible to vote on matters before the committee. Non-active members are those who have an interest in the Committee activities but are unable to actively participate. Non-active members will automatically become active members when present at a AMDTC meeting. Affiliates are non-CIS members who have an interest in AMDTC activities and meetings, but will not be eligible to vote on matters before the committee.

Officers

The AMDTC Chair shall be appointed by the President of the CIS based on the recommendations from the Vice President-Technical Activities (VP-TA) and Committee, for a one-year term and up to a maximum of three terms. Each November, the AMDTC in consultation with VP-TA shall make recommendation to the President for appointment as AMDTC Chair for the following year.

Funding

There is no membership fee for joining the AMDTC. Funding for the committee shall be provided by the CIS in the annual budget request. Once approved by the CIS ExCom and AdCom, funds will be available to support the AMDTC activities. The Chair shall be responsible for the appropriate use of the approved funds with supporting documentation.

Activities

The AMDTC shall engage in various activities in order to promote autonomous mental development as a viable technology, including but not limited to the following: recommend candidates to the Awards Committee for the CIS Pioneer Award in Autonomous Mental Development area and the Technical Field Award, nominate papers for Best Paper Awards to the Awards Committee from papers published in the Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, propose special sessions to the CIS-sponsored conference organizers, participate in paper reviews and selection for CIS-sponsored conferences and publications, promote IEEE Senior Members and Fellows program, collaborate on production of tutorials, and book series with the Multimedia Committee, maintain the Committee’s website, facilitate local chapters activities and organize specialized workshops or meetings. The AMDTC will assist in soliciting conference proposals and actively work with the organizers of CIS-sponsored conferences to insure their technical excellence.

Meetings

Meetings will be called by the Chair one or two times a year, usually before the CIS AdCom meetings and in conjunction with the annual International Conference on Development and Learning, or as requested by the AMDTC members. Sufficient advance notice of the meetings will be given to the members, as well as all other interested parties. The Chair shall prepare an agenda before the meeting, and shall prepare minutes for distribution after the meeting.

Amendments

This Charter becomes official after at least 2/3 members present at The Committee Meeting approve it. Subsequent changes and amendments also require 2/3 majority vote.

Chair

Minoru Asada, Chair (2010) Graduate School of Engineering Osaka University Japan phone: +81-6-6879-7347 fax: +81-6-6876-8994 email: asada .a_t. ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp www: www.er.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/

Vice Chairs

Giorgio Metta, Vice Chair (2010) Italian Institute of Technology, Dept. of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences University of Genoa, LIRA-Lab Via Morego, 30 Genoa 16163, Italy phone: +39 010 7178-1411 fax: +39 010 7170-817 email: giorgio.metta .a_t. iit.it www: pasa.cognitivehumanoids.eu

Olaf Sporns, Vice Chair (2010) Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University 1101 E 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405, USA phone: 812-855-2772 fax: 812-855-4691 email: osporns .a_t. indiana.edu www: www.indiana.edu/~cortex

Members

Narendra Ahuja University of Illinois Urbana

Minoru Asada Graduate School of Engineering Osaka University Japan phone: +81-6-6879-7347 fax: +81-6-6876-8994 email: asada .a_t. ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp www: www.er.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/

Christian Balkenius Lund University Sweden

Dana H. Ballard University of Texas at Austin

Andrew G. Barto University of Massachusetts at Amherst USA email: barto .a_t. cs.umass.edu

Luc Berthouze Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics University of Sussex BN1 9QH Falmer BN1 9QH, UK phone: +44 1273 87 7206 fax: +44 1273 87 7873 email: L.Berthouze .a_t. sussex.ac.uk www: www.informatics.sussex.ac.uk/users/lb203/

Rodney Brooks Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT

Christopher M. Brown Rochester University

Rama Chellappa University of Maryland

Rachel Keen University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Paul Cohen University of Southern California

Kerstin Dautenhahn Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences University of Hertfordshire Hertfordshire AL10 9AB, UK phone: +44-1707-284-333 fax: +44-1707-284-303 email: K.Dautenhahn .a_t. herts.ac.uk www: homepages.feis.herts.ac.uk/~comqkd/

Gedeon Deak Department of Cognitive Science University of California at San Diego 9500 Gilman Dr La Jolla, CA 92093-0515, USA phone: (858) 822-3352 fax: (858) 534-1128 email: deak .a_t. cogsci.ucsd.edu www: www.cogsci.ucsd.edu/~deak/

Yiannis Demiris Imperial College London UK

Kenji Doya RIKEN Japan email: doya .a_t. oist.jp

Jeff Elman Dept. of Cognitive Science UCSD

Jean-Marc Fellous Salk Institute

David J. Field Cornell University

Stan Franklin Department of Computer Science University of Memphis 365 Innovation Dr Memphis, TN 38152, USA phone: 901-678-3142 email: franklin .a_t. memphis.edu www: www.cs.memphis.edu/~franklin

Stephen Grossberg Boston University

Roderic Grupen Department of Computer Science University of Massachusetts 140 Governors Drive Amherst, MA 01003, USA phone: 413-545-3280 fax: 413-545-1249 email: grupen .a_t. cs.umass.edu www: www-robotics.cs.umass.edu/~grupen

Michael Hasselmo Center for Memory and Brain Boston University 2 Cummington St. Boston, MA 02215, USA phone: 617-353-1397 email: hasselmo .a_t. bu.edu www: www.bu.edu/hasselmo

Thomas S. Huang University of Illinois, Urbana

Anil K. Jain Michigan State University

Tony Jebara Computer Science Columbia University 1214 Amsterdam New York, NY 10027, USA phone: 212-939-7079 fax: 212-666-0140 email: jebara .a_t. cs.columbia.edu www: www.cs.columbia.edu/~jebara

Mark Johnson Birkbeck College UK

Frederic Kaplan EPFL, Switzerland email: frederic.kaplan .a_t. epfl.ch www: www.fkaplan.com/en/page1.xml

Edgar Koerner HRI-EU Carl-Legien-Str. 30 Offenbach D-63073, Germany phone: +49-6989011750 fax: +49-6989011749 email: Edgar.koerner .a_t. honda-ri.de www: www.honda-ri.de

Hideki Kozima School of Project Design Miyagi University Gakuen 1, Taiwa Kurokawa, Miyagi 981-3298, Japan phone: +81-22-377-8329 fax: +81-22-377-8390 email: xkozima .a_t. myu.ac.jp www: www.myu.ac.jp/~xkozima

Stephen Levinson Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign USA phone: (217) 244-1262 email: sel .a_t. ifp.uiuc.edu www: www.isle.uiuc.edu/levinson.html

Stan Z. Li Center for Biometrics and Security Research Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhongguancun DongLu Beijing, Beijing 100190, China phone: +86-10- 82626787 fax: +86-10-62632259 email: Stan.ZQ.Li .a_t. Gmail.com www: www.cbsr.ia.ac.cn/users/szli/

Manuel Lopes School of Computing and Mathematics University of Plymouth 22 Portland Square Drake Circus Plymouth, Devon PL4 8AA, UK phone: +44 1752 586305 email: manuelcabidolopes .a_t. gmail.com www: www.tech.plym.ac.uk/SOCCE/staff/MLopes/

Denis Mareschal Centre for Brain and Cognitive Development School of Psychology Birkbeck College UK phone: +44 (0)20 7079 0751 fax: +44 (0)20 7631 6587 email: d.mareschal .a_t. bbk.ac.uk www: www.cbcd.bbk.ac.uk/people/scientificstaff/denis

Maja J. Mataric Computer Science, Viterbi School of Engineering University of Southern California 3650 McClintock Ave. Los Angeles, CA, USA phone: 213 740-4520 fax: 213-821-5696 email: Mataric .a_t. usc.edu www: robotics.usc.edu/~maja

James L. McClelland Department of Psychology Stanford University USA phone: +1-650-736-4278 email: jlm .a_t. psych.stanford.edu www: psychology.stanford.edu/~jlm/

Michael Merzenich Keck Center for Interactive Neuroscience UCSF

Giorgio Metta Italian Institute of Technology, Dept. of Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences University of Genoa, LIRA-Lab Via Morego, 30 Genoa 16163, Italy phone: +39 010 7178-1411 fax: +39 010 7170-817 email: giorgio.metta .a_t. iit.it www: pasa.cognitivehumanoids.eu

Risto Miikkulainen Department of Computer Science The University of Texas at Austin 1 University Station C0500 Austin, TX 78712-0233, USA phone: +1 512 471 9571 fax: +1 512 471 8885 email: risto .a_t. cs.utexas.edu www: www.cs.utexas.edu/~risto

Javier R. Movellan Salk Institute

Yukie Nagai Graduate School of Engineering Osaka University 2-1 Yamadaoka Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan phone: +81 6-6879-4724 fax: +81 6-6879-4724 email: yukie .a_t. ams.eng. osaka-u.ac.jp www: cnr.ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp/~yukie

Erkki Oja Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Aalto University Director of the Adaptive Informatics Research Centre at Aalto, Chairman of the Research Council for Natural Sciences and Engineering of the Academy of Finland. Computer Science Building, Konemiehentie 2, Otaniemi Campus P.O. Box 15400 00076 Aalto, Finland email: erkki.oja .a_t. hut.fi www: www.cis.hut.fi/oja/

Pierre-Yves Oudeyer INRIA 351, cours de la Libération Talence 33405, France phone: +33524574030 email: pierre-yves.oudeyer .a_t. inria.fr www: www.pyoudeyer.com

Alex P. Pentland Media Lab MIT 20 Ames St Cambridge, MA 01239, USA phone: 617-253-3818 email: pentland .a_t. mit.edu www: www.media.mit.edu/~pentland

Rolf Pfeifer Department of Informatics University of Zurich Andreasstrasse 15 Zurich 8050, Switzerl phone: +41 635 43 20 fax: +41 635 45 07 email: pfeifer .a_t. ifi.uzh.ch www: ailab.ifi.uzh.ch

David C. Plaut Carnegie Mellon University

Kim Plunkett Department of Experimental Psychology Oxford University UK email: kim.plunkett .a_t. psy.ox.ac.uk www: psyweb.psy.ox.ac.uk/babylab/personal/kim.html

Tomaso Poggio The Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT

Christopher G. Prince University of Minnesota, Duluth

Deb Roy Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Eytan Ruppin Tel Aviv Univ. Israel

Enrique H. Ruspini Collaborative Intelligent Systems Laboratory European Centre for Soft Computing C/Gonzalo Gutiérrez Quirós, s/n Mieres, Asturias 94025, SPAIN phone: +34 985456545 fax: 33600 email: ruspini .a_t. ieee.org www: www.softcomputing.es/metaspace/portal/ecsc/38?pms=1, 125, 38007, view, normal, 0&id=31

Giulio Sandini Robotics, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Italian Institute of Technology Via Morego 30 Genova, Italy 16163, Italy phone: +39 010 71781 416 fax: +39 010 7170817 email: Giulio.sandini .a_t. iit.it www: www.iit.it

Brian Scassellati Department of Computer Science Yale University 51 Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06520-8285, USA phone: (+1 203) 432 1219 fax: (+1 203) 432 0593 email: scaz .a_t. cs.yale.edu www: cs-www.cs.yale.edu/homes/scaz

Stefan Schaal Computer Science, Neuroscience , and Biomedical Engineering University of Southern California 3710 S. McClintock Ave Los Angeles, California 90089-2905, USA phone: 310 740 1976 fax: 213 740 1510 email: sschaal .a_t. usc.edu www: www-clmc.usc.edu/~sschaal/

Matthew Schlesinger Department of Psychology Southern Illinois University Life Science II Carbondale, IL 62901, USA phone: +1 618 453 3524 fax: +1 618 453 3563 email: matthews .a_t. siu.edu www: matthew.siuc.edu

Nestor A. Schmajuk Duke University

Terrence Sejnowski Salk Institute

Thomas R. Shultz Department of Psychology McGill University 1205 Penfield Avenue Montreal, Quebec, Canada phone: 514 398-6139 fax: 514 398-4896 email: thomas.shultz .a_t. mcgill.ca www: www.psych.mcgill.ca/perpg/fac/shultz/personal/default.htm

Sylvain Sirois Department of Psychologie Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières CP 500 Trois-Rivières, Québec G9A 5H7, Canada phone: (819) 376 5011 #3526 email: sylvain.sirois .a_t. uqtr.ca

Olaf Sporns Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences Indiana University 1101 E 10th Street Bloomington, IN 47405, USA phone: 812-855-2772 fax: 812-855-4691 email: osporns .a_t. indiana.edu www: www.indiana.edu/~cortex

John Spencer Department of Psychology University of Iowa 11 Seashore Hall E Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA phone: 319-335-2482 fax: 319-335-0191 email: John-spencer .a_t. uiowa.edu www: www.delta-center.org

Mike Spratling Division of Engineering King's College London London, UK email: michael.spratling .a_t. kcl.ac.uk www: www.corinet.org/mike/

Ida Stockman Michigan State University

Mark Strauss University of Pittsburgh

Mriganka Sur Dept of Brain and Cognitive Science MIT USA email: msur .a_t. ai.mit.edu www: web.mit.edu/msur/www/people.html

Tieniu Tan National Lab of Pattern Recognition, Beijing China

Sebastian Thrun Stanford University

David Touretzky Department of Computer Science Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3891, USA phone: 412-268-7561 fax: 412-268-3608 email: dst .a_t. cs.cmu.edu www: www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst

Jochen Triesch Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies Frankfurt University Ruth-Moufang-Str. 1 Frankfurt am Main 60438, Germany phone: +49 (0)69 798 47531 fax: +49 (0)69 798 47611 email: triesch .a_t. fias.uni-frankfurt.de www: fias.uni-frankfurt.de/~triesch/

Juyang (John) Weng Department of Computer Science and Engineering Michigan State University 3115 Engineering Building East Lansing, MI 48824-1226, USA phone: (+1 517) 353 4388 fax: (+1 517) 353 4388 email: weng .a_t. cse.msu.edu www: www.cse.msu.edu/~weng

Gert Westermann Department of Psychology Oxford Brookes University Gipsy Lane Oxford OX3 0BP, United Kindgom phone: +44(0)1865483772 fax: +44(0)1865483887 email: gwestermann .a_t. brookes.ac.uk www: ssl.brookes.ac.uk/about/staff/prof.asp?ID=225

Lide Wu Fudan University China

Ming Xie School of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering Nanyang Technology University 639798, Singapore phone: +65 6790 5754 fax: +65 67913712 email: mmxie .a_t. ntu.edu.sg www: www.ntu.edu.sg/home/mmxie

Yilu Zhang ECI Lab GM Global R&D 30500 Mound Road Warren, MI 48090, USA phone: 586-298-0253 fax: 586-986-3003 email: yilu.zhang .a_t. gm.com

Zhengyou Zhang Microsoft Research One Microsoft Way Redmond, WA 98052, USA phone: +1-425-703-3029 fax: +1-425-708-0994 email: zhang .a_t. microsoft.com www: research.microsoft.com/~zhang/

Jordan Zlatev Centre for Cognitive Semiotics Lund University, SOL Box 211 Lund 22100, Sweden phone: +46-46-2228448 email: Jordan.zlatev .a_t. ling.lu.se www: www.sol.lu.se/person/JordanZlatev

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