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180067 SE New Trends in Cognitive Science (2012W)

Synthetic approaches: Understanding cognition by designing and building your own cognitive systems

6.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 18 - Philosophie
Continuous assessment of course work

In this seminar we will be exploring some of the problems which led to the emergence of cognition in natural systems, by building our own artificial systems.

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Friday 05.10. 10:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Friday 19.10. 09:00 - 12:00 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 22.10. 10:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Friday 16.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Hörsaal 3F NIG 3.Stock
  • Friday 16.11. 16:00 - 20:00 Hörsaal 3D, NIG Universitätsstraße 7/Stg. III/3. Stock, 1010 Wien
  • Monday 19.11. 10:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Friday 30.11. 09:00 - 12:05 Hörsaal. 2H NIG 2.Stock
  • Monday 03.12. 10:00 - 13:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Monday 17.12. 14:00 - 18:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock
  • Tuesday 18.12. 12:30 - 14:00 Hörsaal 2i NIG 2.Stock C0228
  • Monday 07.01. 14:00 - 18:00 Hörsaal 3E NIG 3.Stock

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

One way to get a deeper understanding of a problem is to explore solutions to it. In this seminar we will be building artificial systems that are to solve increasingly complex tasks in a dynamic environment. We will be studying the types of cognition that become necessary in order to solve these tasks, their requirements and possible implementations. This will help shed light on the way cognition developed in natural systems, which face similar (though considerably more complex) challenges.

Assessment and permitted materials

Reports
Presentations
Active participation

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Understand the types of problems cognition developed for and thus the roles and functions of different aspects of cognition.
Understand the modeling approach and be able to apply it to own problems.
Build state of the art artificial systems.

Examination topics

Assignments of the form "an agent is to achieve X in the world".
Presentations and reports of the developed systems.
With an analysis of the problems encountered and discussion of the chosen solutions.
With references to literature (from a selected literature list).

Reading list

A primer: McDermott, Drew (1976). Artificial intelligence meets natural stupidity. SIGART Bull., (57), 4–9

Association in the course directory

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