2016-04-13 09:02
The past few months have been busy - I attended the Human-Robot Interaction conference in Christchurch (New Zealand), and then I packed up and left Plymouth, after six (near enough) very hap… Read More
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Notes and commentaries on all aspects of cognition research, though particularly as applicable to cognitive robotics
2016-01-12 13:35
In a follow-up to the first iteration of the workshop, I'm organising the next version of the workshop on Cognitive Architectures for Social HRI (with Greg Trafton and Severin Lemaignan). It… Read More
2015-12-17 15:05
For the second year running, I'm involved in the organisation of the 5th Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction, which will be held as part of the AISB convention on the 5th a… Read More
2015-11-05 22:45
In the past couple of weeks, I've been fortunate enough to attend a couple of conferences concerned with social robotics - one of the main foci of my research work. Attending conferences is… Read More
2015-08-24 20:58
I'm in Aland, Finland, at the moment taking part in the 2nd Summer School on Social Human-Robot Interaction (the first one took place in Cambridge in 2013). We're at the end of the firs… Read More
2014-12-15 13:01
I'm involved in the organisation of a symposium that will be held in April 2015: New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction. Part of the AISB 2015 convention in Canterbury (U.K.), this symposi… Read More
2014-09-23 11:54
At the beginning of this month, I formally started work on the EU FP7 DREAM project (although the project itself started in April this year). Given that ALIZ-E finished at the end of August… Read More
2014-04-06 20:55
I am co-organising a half-day workshop at the 9th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction next year (HRI'14), that will be held on the 3rd of March 2014 in Bielefeld, Ge… Read More
2014-04-06 20:55
At the end of last week, I was at the AISB 2014 symposium on New Frontiers in HRI, held at Goldsmiths College, London. Held over two days (well, not quite full days...), it was modestly size… Read More
2013-12-09 17:09
...well, here's one reason anyway...
(for the full comic, go to the website)
-> Combining Cognits - http://paul-baxter.blogspot.com
... Follow link above for the rest of the post Read More
2013-08-30 09:08
It's now the last day of the summer school in Cambridge, and it's been a very interesting if packed week of talks, activities and discussions. Just what a summer school should be in my opini… Read More
2013-08-27 13:26
The Summer School on Social Human-Robot Interaction is now in full swing! Great talks so far, and some really good hands-on sessions. Last night was a workshop given by Aardman Animations on… Read More
2013-04-22 09:15
On the off-chance that there's anyone reading this who may be interested, but who hasn't heard this elsewhere (...), then I'd like to mention a research-oriented summer school on Social Huma… Read More
2013-03-19 01:40
With robotic devices increasingly prevalent in 'real life', and the prospect of ever more autonomous robots, there is a need for legislation to be updated to reflect the changing conditions… Read More
2013-02-20 01:49
This was a Channel 4 documentary on a week or two ago (I believe it's still viewable for those based in the U.K.) - I wasn't going to write a review of it at first. But then today, I noticed… Read More
2012-10-14 23:29
The academic work of Heinz von Foerster was, and remains, highly influential in a number of disciplines, namely due to the pervasive implications of his distinction between first a… Read More
2012-07-23 10:12
Just came across an interesting article on Wired: Science today. Written by Stuart Firenstein, a biological scientist and active in the public understanding of science. It's on how uncertain… Read More
2012-06-28 08:45
I must be a Good Scientist, as I make lots of mistakes...
[Image attribution: I honestly can't remember where I got this from]-> Combining Cognits - http://paul-baxter.blogspot.com
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2012-01-15 19:34
Cover of "Dreaming in Code",
by Scott RosenbergAs I mentioned previously, I have been reading a book on programming called "Dreaming in Code" (by S. Rosenberg, full ref may be found below)… Read More
2012-01-12 20:38
The story on the BBC News website that the world's smallest frog has been discovered. Really? Wow!
Smallest frog? Picture from the BBC News story./rant
No!! Have they taken a measurement a… Read More
2012-01-07 02:22
At the 26th AAAI conference this year (in Toronto, Canada) there will be a special track on Cognitive Systems:
In an attempt to return to the original goals of artificial intelligence and co… Read More
2012-01-06 00:33
I don't use MATLAB very much at the moment, or even in recent years. Production of a couple of graphs perhaps, maybe a little data processing, but nothing that can't really be done using any… Read More
2011-12-28 00:18
I do not regard myself as a software engineer. Sure, I 'do' programming (usually with some C-based language if you're interested), but such programming is to implement some functionality tha… Read More
2011-12-20 18:31
An upcoming event with which I have a minor involvement is the 4th incarnation of the AISB Symposium on Computing and Philosophy, which is due to take place in Birmingham, U.K., between… Read More
2011-12-19 23:09
My first post in over a year, so lets start with something silly :-)
I'm sure that anyone who is working, or has worked, with robots has been influenced in some way (if not inspired) by som… Read More
2010-12-10 22:50
I am pleased to say that my thesis has now finally been published and submitted, with my graduation ceremony next week. After that, I will have truly finished the long and arduous road that… Read More
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