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
Research scientist position, Vision and Graphics group, HP Labs California
We have a job opening in the Vision and Graphics group at HP Laboratories in sunny Palo Alto, California. Our web page, www.hpl.hp.com/research/mmsl/projects/vision.html, provides some background on public aspects of our work, and a job description is appended below. We are beginning to interview candidates now, so if you are interested, please apply immediately. The job is open to non-US citizens. Candidates can apply online by going to http://www.hp.com/go/jobs, searching for job number 977940, and clicking "apply". You may also make informal inquiries to Bruce Culbertson at bruce_culbertson@hp.com, +1-650-857-6656, or Michael Harville at harville@hp.com. Regards, Mike ---------------- Job Description Work as a member of the HP Labs Computer Vision and Graphics team. The team has been focused on creating immersive experiences, especially for remote collaboration, telepresence, and gaming. They created the Coliseum interactive virtual reality system and contributed to HP's Halo video conferencing product. Current projects include research with arrays of cameras and/or projectors, and high performance media processing architectures to interconnect and apply such devices to a variety of purposes. The team's interests include 3D reconstruction, image-based rendering, tracking, multi-camera systems, background subtraction and video matting, relightable textures, and the communication of eye contact. Must: * Advanced degree in a computer vision or computer graphics * Proven research ability * Programming skills and the ability to build large systems that work * Ability to work independently and in teams * Excellent written and verbal communication skills * Experience in several of the following: remote collaboration, telepresence, camera calibration and pose estimation, 3D reconstruction, multi-camera systems and algorithms, background subtraction and video matting, tracking, media streaming and processing, GPU programming, rapid prototyping (e.g., Matlab programming) Desired: * Ph.D. in a computer vision or computer graphics * Knowledge of video and audio coding, signal processing, media streaming |



