| Date |
Reading |
Person |
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| 02/02/07 |
Fellous, Arbib. Who Needs Emotions?: The Brain Meets the Robot. (Ch.5 - What are emotions, Why do We Have Emotions, and What is Their Computational Basis in the Brain?) |
Edmund Rolls |
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| 02/09/07 |
Fellous, Arbib. Who Needs Emotions?: The Brain Meets the Robot. (Ch.10 - Robot Emotions: A Functional Perspective) |
Cynthia Breazeal, Rodney Brooks |
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| 02/09/07 |
R. Trappl, P. Petta, and S. Payr. Emotions in Humans and Artifacts. (Ch.11 - A Bayesian Heart: Computer Recognition and Simulation of Emotion) |
Eugene Ball |
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| 02/09/07 |
A. Damasio. Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain. |
A. Damasio. |
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| 02/16/07 |
Continuing discussion on the robot Kismet |
Cynthia Breazeal, Rodney Brooks |
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| 02/16/07 |
Guest speaker: Modeling with Neural Networks: Dynamical Health vs Dynamical Diseases |
Elan Ohayon |
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| 02/16/07 |
E-mail Megan (molsen@cs.umass.edu) with the following information: your project partner or the fact that you still need a partner; your project idea, your project area of interest, or the fact that you are still open to areas |
You and Megan |
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| 02/23/07 |
No Official Class Meeting - Meet with your group member to discuss your project and prepare ideas to discuss with Hava |
You, your partner |
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| 03/02/07 |
Guest Speaker: Neuroscience of Emotions |
Dan Rudt |
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| 03/02/07 |
Discussion: Coping in stressful situations, using example of Devlin case (2 boys kidnapped) |
Discussion led by Hava |
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| 03/09/07 |
Neural Networks with Emotion |
Hava Siegelmann |
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| 03/09/07 |
Guest Speaker. Fellous, Arbib. Who Needs Emotions?: The Brain Meets the Robot. (Ch.8 - The Architectural Basis of affective STates and Processes) |
Sloman, Chrissley, Scheutz. Presented by: Yariv Levy |
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| 03/16/07 |
5 minute description of planned project, including goals and plan of action. Must be finished by 10:30 for guest speaker. |
All project Groups |
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| 03/16/07 |
Guest Speaker: Optimal Bayesian Inference, Decision Making and Learning with Probabilistic Population Codes |
Jeffrey M. Beck |
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| 03/23/07 |
SPRING BREAK - NO CLASS MEETING |
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| 03/30/07 |
5 minute description of planned project, including goals and plan of action. |
Rest of Project Groups |
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| 03/30/07 |
Neural Networks with Emotions |
Hava Siegelmann |
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| 04/06/07 |
Neural Networks with Emotions |
Hava Siegelmann |
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| 04/13/07 |
Guest Speaker: Behavior Phenomics in Emotional Personalities |
Stevo Bozinovski |
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| 04/20/07 |
Guest Speaker: Evolving Brains & Designing Machines: Perspectives on Emotions
| Michael Arbib |
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| 04/27/07 |
Guest Speaker: Embodied Artificial Intelligence: Connecting Body, Brain and Environment |
Fumiya Iida |
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| 05/04/07 |
Guest Speaker: Relapse and Addiction |
Gordon Anderson |
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| 05/11/07 |
Project Presentations |
Everyone |
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