ICO Alan Turing Lect...

  To celebrate the 100 year anniversary of the birth of the world renowned mathematician, code breaker, logician and computer scientist, the first ICO Alan Turing Lecture was held at the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchest...


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AISB Workshop: Senso...

Poster: http://aisb.org.uk/media/files/stw2012.pdf (media/files/stw2012.pdf) A day of discussion on the Sensorimotor account of Perception, Consciousness  and Robotics, its development and contemporary state. The first in a seri...


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Ms Pac-Man vs Ghosts...

This year's Ms Pac-man vs Ghosts Competition is now open for submissions. The competition allows you to develop AI controllers for the classical arcade game Ms Pac-Man. However, this year the competition takes a unique look at the...


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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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New AISB Website

Happy New Year! Welcome to the new AISB website. Over the coming weeks and months we will be making additional changes to the website, introducing some new content and so on. Please check back regularly to see what's new! During...


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AISB Website Beta

The AISB's new website is now gone beta. Some of the new features member's can look forward to enjoying will be better integration with the AISB LinkedIn group, frequent news updates, a new member's section and up-to-date AI med...


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AISB 2011 Convention

The AISB'11 Convention (http://www.aisb.org.uk/convention/aisb11/) was held from 4-7 April at York, organised by Dimitar Kazakov and George Tsoulas.


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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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Alan Turing Year

2012 marks the centenary of Alan Turing's birth. Alan Turing Year (http://www.turingcentenary.eu/), seeks to bring together news of all the events and organisations which will be marking the occasion.


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Honouring Turing at ...

The AISB's own Convention in 2012 (convention/aisb12) will honour Turing   For 2012, AISB and IACAP (The International Association for Computing and Philosophy) have merged their annual symposia/conferences to form the AISB/IA...


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Notice

AISB opportunities Bulletin Item

1y assistant professorship in philosophy, Kalamazoo MI (U.S.A.)


WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY, Kalamazoo, MI. WMU seeks applications for a 
one-year term assistant professor appointment in the Department of 
Philosophy with a start date of Fall 2013.  AOS/AOC:  open.  The 
department expects that the successful candidate will teach a graduate 
seminar in his or her area of expertise; undergraduate courses will 
include critical thinking, and might include metaphysics, ancient 
philosophy, philosophy of language, and/or philosophy of mind.  WMU?s 
Department of Philosophy (www.wmich.edu/philosophy) is broadly analytic in 
focus, with an undergraduate major and a highly regarded M.A. program. 
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching has placed WMU 
among the 76 public institutions in the nation designated as research 
universities with high research activity.  Western Michigan University is 
an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer consistent with 
applicable federal and state law. Applications must go to 
http://www.wmich.edu/hr/careers-at-wmu.html.  Online applications should 
include a letter of application, curriculum vitae, research statement, 
writing sample and, if available, teaching evaluations.  Transcripts and 
three letters of recommendation should be sent directly to: Dr. Marc 
Alspector-Kelly, Chair, Department of Philosophy; 3004 Moore Hall, Western 
Michigan University; Kalamazoo, MI 49008.  Questions may be directed by 
email to tonja.iocca@wmich.edu or by phone to (269) 387-4390.  Review of 
applications will begin immediately and will continue until the position 
is filled.