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Call for Papers

ICDM '06: The 6th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining

Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China,
18-22 December 2006

Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society

Co-Organized With
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)

University/Corporate Sponsors
Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU)
Microsoft Corp.

http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/iwi06/

(Papers Due: 5 July 2006)
Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings
by the IEEE Computer Society Press, to be indexed by EI.
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IEEE/WIC/ACM WEB INTELLIGENCE 2006

CALL FOR PAPERS

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We have just released SwingSet 1.0.0-PR3 (Preview Release 3), an open source Java toolkit containing data-aware replacements for many of the standard Java Swing components.

This NewScientist article discusses a project Deb Roy from the MIT Media Lab has setup to monitor his newborn son from birth through three years of age. It is hoped that by capturing much of his son's stimuli with audio & video recorders, new insights can be gained into the language acquisition process.

Slashdot discussion is available here.

Hi,

I'm suggesting a new reinforcement learning algorithm applied in my case on robots, please see:

http://www.compactech.com/kartoun/articles/html/Kartoun_RA_2005_September_3_2005_Accepted.htm

"The Architecture of Language" is an international conference focussing on the brain aspects of language functioning. The aim of the meeting is to rethink the global architecture of language by combining data from functional exploration of the brain with proposals from the linguistic and cognitive science, thus favouring the interdisciplinary dialog. It will be held at Scuola Normale Superiore & University of Pisa, Italy, June 8-10,
2006. More info here.

The AAAI Workshop on Event Extraction and Synthesis will be held in conjunction with AAAI-06, July 16th 2006, Boston, MA. More info here.

According to this Discovery Channel News article, "A new robot can recognize the difference between a mirror image of itself and another robot that looks just like it.

This so-called mirror image cognition is based on artificial nerve cell groups built into the robot's computer brain that give it the ability to recognize itself and acknowledge others.

The ground-breaking technology could eventually lead to robots able to express emotions."

There is Slashdot discussion here.

HLT-NAACL 2006 will have several workshops connected with the conference on June 8-9, 2006 in New York, NY. You can find information about the HLT-NAACL workshops here.

There will be a special track of technical conference papers at AAAI-06 called "Artificial Intelligence and the Web." More info here.