This year we are producing the main BICA*AI conference at IS4SI and producing the BICA*AI workshop at IVA 2021. We are partnering with the Philosophy of AI with Joint sessions at IS4SI as well as with presentations at the Collective Superintelligence Conference in June. Booth SI4SI events are at no cost due to a grant and there are regular costs for the other two events.

Call for Papers by June 15th for Abstracts for the IS4SI events.

Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture for AI and AGI (BICA*AI) 2021 @ IS4SI September 12-19, 2021

This virtual conference contributing to the 2021 Summit of the International Society for the Study of Information (IS4SI) is about how data and data architecture is used and implemented in theory and practice in agent-based systems using cognitive architectures that are inspired in large part by the human and animal mind. All aspects of information theory and information architecture in a Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) based system may be covered. This conference is about information theory from the BICA perspective. Papers published in a Special Edition of MDPI Proceedings.

For more information see: https://bica.ai/2021/03/25/call-for-papers-to-information-in-biologically-inspired-cognitive-architectures-bica-based-systems/

Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture for AI and AGI (BICA*AI) Virtual Workshop 2021 @ IVA September 14-17, 2021

Biological intelligent systems, notable animals such as humans, have many qualities that are often lacking in artificially designed systems including robustness, flexibility, and adaptability to environments. At a point in time where visibility into naturally intelligent systems is exploding thanks to modern brain imaging and recording techniques, our ability to learn from nature and to build biologically inspired intelligent systems has never been greater. At the same time, the growth in computer science and technology has unleashed enough computational power, that an explosion of intelligent applications from augmented reality to intelligent virtual agents is now certain. The growth in these fields challenges the computational replication of all essential aspects of the human mind (the BICA Challenge), an endeavor that is interdisciplinary in nature and promises to yield a bi-directional flow of understanding between all involved disciplines. Papers will be published in the special issue of Procedia Computer Science dedicated to BICA*AI 2020 (the 2020 Annual International Conference on Brain-Inspired Cognitive Architectures for Artificial Intelligence, also known as the Eleventh Annual Meeting of the BICA Society). Selected papers will be published in Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier).

For more information see: https://bica.ai/2021/04/20/bica-workshop-iva-2021/

Philosophy and Computing Conference 2021 @ IS4SI (virtual)

This event is being organized by BICA members.

Organized by Philosophers assembled over the years around the APA Newsletter on Philosophy and Computers and the APA Committee on Philosophy and Computers (both now discontinued) and related organizations: Association on Philosophy and Computing (APC) affiliate of the APA, which started in 2020 – the current conference is its first external activity; philosophy interest group within BICA Society (which also organizes its own conference at this IS4SI); PHAEDE (Philosophy of Engineering and Artifact in the Digital Era (within the Romanian Society for Philosophy, Engineering and Techno-ethics) with a long tradition of organizing related conferences and publications; Philosophy and Science PAN (journal of the Polish Academy of Science), which will publish a whole large issue from the conference free of charge for the authors [in print and online – free access], also other organizations and groups focused on philosophical issues in our digital world.

For more information see https://bica.ai/2021/03/25/philosophy-and-computing-conference-call-for-papers/

Virtual Collective Superintelligence Summit 2021 June 4th

This event is being organized by BICA members.

The purpose of this summit is to give direction to an Open Source Collective Superintelligence project and to provide development goals and direction and to set up a framework for engineering standards to several teams working in this area and to create a stronger community and to better formalize the Collective Intelligence as a field of AI.

For more information see https://bica.ai/2021/03/25/collective-superintelligence-summit/

Who is BICA?

The Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures Society for Artificial Intelligence (AI), or BICA Society, is an international nonprofit organization based in the US. The purpose of the Society is to promote and facilitate the transdisciplinary study of biologically inspired cognitive architectures (BICA), aiming at the emergence of a unifying, generally accepted framework for the design, characterization, and implementation of human-level cognitive architectures.

IMPORTANT DATES/DEADLINES:

June 1 - Last date for submissions to the Collective Superintelligence Summit

June 4 - Collective Superintelligence Summit

June 15th - Last date for abstract submissions for both IS4SI events

September 12-19 - BICA*AI 2021 @ IS4SI '21

September 14-17 - BICA*AI Workshop @ IVA'21