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What's New:
Responses to Consultations
- In January 2010 the Committee made a submission to the House of
Commons' Select Committee on Science and Technology
for use in their enquiry into science funding. The
submission is a reorganized version of the comments on
research impact assessment in the AISB response to the
Hefce consultation on the REF. (House of Commons' Reponse as a Word document, House of Commons' Reponse as a PDF)
- In December 2009 the Committee sent in a response to HEFCE's
consultation on the REF. The response contains, in
particular, strong statements concerning the currently
proposed impact component of the REF and concerning the
use of quantitative indicators to measure research. (HEFCE Respose as a Word document, HEFCE Response as a PDF)
- In September 2009 the committee sent in a response to the Royal
Society's consultation on "The Fruits of Curiosity:
innovation and future sources of wealth" (PDF Fruits of Curiosity Call). It is partly about the role of and policies in support of curiosity-led scientific research, within which we are proud to include AISB-related research. Fruits of Curiosity response as a PDF.
The Committee would welcome hearing from any society members about the issues in the above responses (or other issues in the consultations but not addressed in the responses). Such views will not affect the consultations, in their current stages at least, but may inform future activities of the Committee.
And if you wish to take part in such responding activities in the future, please consider being nominated in future nomination rounds for committee members, or just tell us as we could use your help informally.
Other News
- CPHC, UKCRC and BCS intend to create a new Academy of Computing to
advance computing across education, research and
business (Academy of Computing Press Release (PDF)).
- The AISB'10 Convention will be
held at De Montfort University, 29th March - 1st April
2010, organised by Aladdin Ayesh.
- THe AISB'11 Convention will be held at York, organised by Dimitar
Kazakov and George Tsoulas.
- Reminder: AISB members have free access to ECCAI AI Communications from the Members Only Area.
- Reduced rates are now available to AI researchers on selected titles from the Eurospan bookstore.
New from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B:
Biological Sciences
Modelling natural action selection
Organised and edited by Tony J Prescott, Joanna J Bryson and Anil K
Seth
SPECIAL OFFER PRICE TO SSAISB MEMBERS: £47.50/US$90 (usual price:
£59.50/US$110)
For further information on abstracts or articles or to purchase the
print copy please visit
www.publishing.royalsoc.ac.uk/natural-action. Please
quote reference TB1485 to qualify for the discounted rate.
Awards and Sponsorship:
- The SSAISB offers regular student travel
awards of up to £300 for conference trips. A list of travel award recipients is available.
- SSAISB members are eligible for the ECCAI dissertation award, and can also apply for ECCAI travel grants to attend the ECAI conference and ACAI summer school.
- Mutual Benefit
Ideas - including sponsorship details.
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The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence
and the Simulation of Behaviour (SSAISB) is the
largest Artificial Intelligence Society in the United
Kingdom. Founded in 1964, the society has an
international membership drawn from both academia and
industry. It is a member of
the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence
(see ECCAI benefits).
SSAISB is a thriving learned society which invites membership from people with
a serious interest in Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive
Science and related areas. There are six types of membership: student,
ordinary, benefactor, patron, corporate and institutional. The society hosts an annual convention.
Members of the
Society receive a quarterly newsletter AISBQ which includes short reports on current AI and Cognitive Science research. Members are also entitled to discounts to the ECAI conference.
