Grand Challenge 5: Brain and Mind (original) (raw)

Grand Challenge 5 (GC-5)

Architecture of Brain and Mind Integrating high level cognitive processes with brain mechanisms and functions in a working robot.

News

GC5 and the EU Flagship programme

The GC5 committee supports

• Henry Markram's Human Brain Project proposal: now in negotations with the EU
• Paulo Dario's Robot companions for citizens proposal for further information see the News item in the Related Initiatives page

Relevant article in IEEE Spectrum December 2010

IEEE Spectrum has a feature called MoNETA: A Mind Made from Memristors, reporting on some of the DARPA SyNAPSE related work.

Relevant special issue material in Neurocomputing, 74 (1-3) December 2010

Neurocomputing has a special issue on artificial brains, in this issue. It is edited by de Garis and Goertzel, and includes a world survey of artificial brain projects.

The Future of GC 5

After the 2010 presentation on GC5 at the ACM-BCS Visions of Computer Science 2010 meeting, Leslie Smith, of Stirling University made a proposal to try to push forward with the Grand Challenge in a UK context. Clearly, the idea is now understood world-wide, and in particular the EU has made large amounts of money available for interdisciplinary research on cognition, both natural and artificial: but it remains important that there is a UK hub for this area.
Email address: l.s.smith [AT] cs.stir.ac.uk

Contents

• Introduction to GC5
• Forthcoming events
• Recent Events
• GC-5 Committee
• Related Initiatives
• News Archive

Additional older information may also be found:

• Additional background material
• Some older documents relating to GC-5.
• The original Grand Challenges meeting, November 2002

How to join the email list for GC-5

A new email list for GC5 has now been set up. The list is at gcproposal-5@jiscmail.ac.uk.