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Life, intelligence and other artificial stuff
Life, intelligence and other artificial stuff
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By:
Luís Correia (Universidade de Lisboa)
Date:
Wednesday, 22nd of June 2011, 14h00
Location:
FCT/UNL, Seminar Room (Ed. II)
Abstract
Artificial Life (AL) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been present from the beginning of computer science and presently continue to be in the frontier of computer based models and applications. This talk will take a look into some historical landmarks of AL and AI and we it will follow through to state of the art based on current computer technology. To conclude, a few speculative thoughts on the future of these areas will be presented.
Short-bio
Luís M.P. Correia (http://www.di.fc.ul.pt/~lcorreia) was born in Lisboa, Portugal, in 1959. He obtained an Electrical Engineering degree (5 year degree) in 1982, from Instituto Superior Técnico of Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, and a PhD in Informatics (Behaviour based mobile robots) from Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in 1995. In 2009 he got habilitation from Universidade de Lisboa. From 1982 to 2003 he was practicing assistant, assistant and assistant professor at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Since 2003 he is associate professor at Universidade de Lisboa. From 2004 on he has been leading LabMAg research centre. His research interests are in the area of artificial life, autonomous robots, and self-organisation in multi-agent systems.
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