Call for Proposals
AISB-50: a convention commemorating both 50 years since the founding of the society for the study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour (the AISB) and sixty years since the death of Alan Turing, founding fathe...
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Mark Bishop on BBC ...
Mark Bishop, Chair of the Study of Artificial Intelligence and the Simulation of Behaviour, appeared on Newsnight to discuss the ethics of ‘killer robots’. He was approached to give his view on a report raising questions on the et...
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AISB YouTube Channel
The AISB has launched a YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AISBTube (http://www.youtube.com/user/AISBTube). The channel currently holds a number of videos from the AISB 2010 Convention. Videos include the AISB round t...
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Lighthill Debates
The Lighthill debates from 1973 are now available on YouTube. You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video
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Notice
AISB opportunities Bulletin Item
PhD student positions in language, cognition or computation, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND
The Institute for Language, Cognition and Computation (ILCC) at the University of Edinburgh invites applications for three-year PhD studentships starting in September 2013. Approximately 8 studentships from a variety of sources are available, covering maintenance at the research council rate of around GBP 13500 per year, plus tuition fees. Applicants should have a good honours degree or equivalent in computational linguistics, speech technology, cognitive science, computer science, or a related discipline. For a list of academic staff at ILCC with research areas, and for a selection of potential PhD topics, please consult the ILCC website at http://www.ilcc.inf.ed.ac.uk/. Details regarding the PhD programme and the application procedure can be found at: http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/informatics/postgraduate/research-degrees/phd Please direct further inquiries to Henry Thompson ht@inf.ed.ac.uk, the ILCC PhD admissions coordinator. In order to ensure full consideration for funding, applications (including all supporting documents) need to be received by December 14, 2012. |



