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The Thinking Machine

A one-day seminar held at the University of Cambridge on Tuesday 18 March 2008.

Presentations

Here are the presentations from the day that we have available for download:

Cognitive Systems Engineering
Professor Steve Young
Machine learning and cognitive information retrieval systems
Professor Zoubin Ghahramani, Department of Engineering
Memory = storing associations between items? Insights from a normative perspective
Dr Máté Lengyel, Department of Engineering
Synapse machines and mental state
Professor Seth Grant, The Sanger Institute
Computations in human and robotic control
Professor Daniel Wolpert, Department of Engineering
Learning to play: machine learning in games
Dr Thore Graepel, Microsoft Research Europe
Caching decisions: what jays know about other minds and other times
Professor Nicola Clayton, Department of Experimental Psychology
Making machines that see
Professor Roberto Cipolla, Department of Engineering
Can machines reason?
Dr Mateja Jamnik, Computer Laboratory
Learning language, evolving languages
Professor Ted Briscoe, Computer Laboratory
Is there anything computers still can't do, and does it matter?
Professor Alison Adam, Informatics Research Institute, University of Salford
The fact and fiction of robots
Kathleen Richardson, Department of Social Anthropology
Closing remarks
Professor David Mackay