Sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA
National Science Foundation NSF and FedEx Institute of Technology FIT
Organized by the Computational Neurodynamics Laboratory CND and the
Computer Science Division, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UoM

The IDS’04 Symposium is held in the newly inaugurated FedEx Institute
of Technology, and it is organized in conjunction with and just prior to
IEEE 2004 International Conference on Robotics & Automation ICRA,
April 28 - May 1, New Orleans. http://www.egr.msu.edu/ralab/icra2004/.


Symposium Photos

IDS 2004 Symposium is the newest in the series of meetings organized in Memphis on the dynamics of perception, memory, and cognition since 2001. The 2004 IDS Symposium is held at the newly inaugurated FedEx Institute of Technology. FIT is the home of a number of leading research centers at the University of Memphis and the Mid-South, including the Center of Intentional Dynamic Systems (CIDS), which hosts this Symposium. IDS 2004 Symposium is held just prior to IEEE ICRA’04 and located conveniently in Memphis, at the mighty Mississippi, home of the blues and Elvis. The vicinity of Memphis and New Orleans is excellent opportunity to attend both meetings, within a driving distance of about 5 hours.

IDS’04 gives forum to researchers working on the intensively developing interdisciplinary area of dynamical approaches to embedded cognition, based on self-organized development of autonomous systems. There are various methods to dynamical modeling of cognitive processes, and authors from all areas are welcome to attend. These include K-sets, chaotic itinerancy, coupled map lattices, etc. Interested researchers are encouraged to submit contributed papers for presentation at the symposium. Areas of interest include, but not limited to:
Dynamics of memory and cognition
Foundations of K sets
Self-organization in neural processes
Software and hardware implementation of K sets
Intentional robotics and implementations
Applications of K sets

Keynote Speakers:
Peter Erdi (Kalamazoo College, MI & KFKI, Budapest, Hungary)
Dario Floreano (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
Walter J. Freeman (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
Toshio Fukuda (Nagoya University, Japan)
Jose Principe (University of Florida, Gainesville, USA)

Please address all inquires concerning IDS to:
Symposium chair Robert Kozma kozma@socrates.berkeley.edu.