Summer Schools

Talks

  • 04/03/19: AI in the 21st century: Opportunities and challenges. Presentación de la Estrategia Española de I+D+I en Inteligencia Artificial. Palacio de Congresos. Granada, Spain.
  • 19/02/19: AI and Democracy. Plenary Panel Session. ICAART 2019 - International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence.
  • 01/02/19: Evolution of Hierarchical Organization in Language. Evolution of Hierarchical Organization in Adaptive Systems - WIKO - Institute for Advanced Study
  • 21/01/19: Nazicht Notulen Hoorzitting Digitale “slimme samenleving". Hearing of the Belgian Senate - Belgium
  • 12/01/19: Language is a Slippery Thing. Stop Making Sense. The New Alphabet. HWK - Haus der Kulturen der Welt. https://www.hkw.de/en/programm/projekte/veranstaltung/p_146043.php
  • 08/12/18: A brief history of agent-based models for the emergence of human language like communication systems. Thirty-second Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. Palais des Congrès de Montréal, Canada.
  • 10/11/18: The robots are coming! The night of philosophy - Gent, Belgium. https://www.nachtvandevrijdenker.be/programma
  • 08/11/18: Human Genius in the Age of Artificial Intelligence. Falling Walls - The International Conference on Future Breakthroughs on Science and Society.
  • 06/11/18: Language grounding using evolutionary language games. Collaborative Research Center "Everyday Activity Science and Engineering (EASE)"
  • 31/10/18: Cultural heritage as a unique asset for artificial intelligence. Time Machine Conference 2018 at the Swiss Tech Convention Center in Lausanne, Switzerland.
  • 18/10/18: Hate speech and big data. ODYCCEUS Conference in Digital History and Digital Humanities. Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia.
  • 08/10/18: What needs to be done to ensure the ethical use of AI. 21st International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence, CCIA 2018.
  • 12/09/18: Fluid Construction Grammar – A progress report. Cognitive Structures: Linguistic, Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives - Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf.
  • 20/08/18: Fluid Construction Grammar Workshop. Bagergue, Lleida.
  • 16/07/18: Meetings and discussions on precision language processing using Fluid Construction Grammar at the 10th International Conference on Construction Grammar. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle and École Normale Supérieure in Paris.
  • 22/06/18: Discussion on the Opinion Facilitator. 1st ODYCCEUS conference on Opinion Dynamics and Cultural Conflict in European Space - Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
  • 19/06/18: How can we probe deeper in social texts? 1st ODYCCEUS Conference on Opinion Dynamics and Cultural Conflict in European Space - Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences, Leipzig, Germany.
  • 03/05/18: Fourth and final Francqui Lecture - Faust revisited: "mind uploading" and digital immortality. Catholic Univeristy of Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Leuven.
  • 02/05/18: De Robo Sapiens. Artificial Intelligence Symposium, Flemish Academy of Science
  • 26/04/18: Third Francqui lecture: Language grounding based on cognitive semantics and pragmatics. MSI1 01.16, Mgr. Sencie Instituut Erasmusplein, Leuven, Belgium.
  • 24/04/18: Second Francqui Lecture: Fluid construction grammar. MSI1 01.08, Mgr. Sencie Instituut Erasmusplein Leuven.
  • 17/04/18: Inaugural Lecture: Het enigma van taalevolutie. Francqui Chair for 2018. Catholic University of Leuven, Faculty of Arts, Leuven.
  • 27/03/18: A European Union Strategy for Artificial Intelligence. EU Commission, ESPC, Brussels
  • 23/03/18: Fact check: Where does AI stand & where is it heading? Conference on AI and Law. University of Leuven. Faculty of Law.
  • 22/03/18: When AI met cybernetics (again). Conference on the state of cybernetics. University of Amsterdam.
  • 21/03/18: AI - mogelijkheden en verwachtingen. Warande, Brussels.
  • 19/03/18: AI and Big Data. Databeers conferences. Muntpunt, Brussels.
  • 29/01/18: The Social Complexity of Big Data: On the Limits of Naturalism in a Digital World Odycceus Workshop. University Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy.
  • 22/01/18: Time Machine Conference. University of Amsterdam, Humanities Faculty.
  • 16/01/18: Agent-based Models for Language Adaptation and Change. 10th International Conference on Agents and Artifcial Intelligence. Funchal, Madeira - Portugal. https://player.vimeo.com/video/261149463?title=0&portrait=0
  • 08/01/18: Intelligence artificielle et modèles théoriques de l'origine du langage. Cours Stanislas Dehaene. College de France, Paris. https://www.college-de-france.fr/site/stanislas-dehaene/seminar-2018-01-08-11h00.htm
  • 20/10/17: Artificial Intelligence - A science and arts point of view. JRC Art-science Symposium. Science and Technology Museum Leonardo. Milan (Italy).
  • 02/10/17: Zijn er dan toch limieten aan AI? NRC Live, Delft (Netherlands) https://nrclive.nl/de-misverstanden-van-ai/
  • 19/09/17: Artificiële intelligentie - studiedag & debat. Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium.
  • 12/06/17: Comment pouvons nous développer des théories scientifiques relatives à l'origine et à l'évolution des langages. Académie Européene Interdisciplinaire des Sciences - Paris.
  • 24/03/17: Special Session: Language processing and language evolution. CUNY 2017, 30th Annual CUNY Conference on Human Sentence Processing- MIT, USA
  • 20/03/17: Computational construction grammar and natural language understanding. AAAI Spring Symposium- Palo Alto, California, USA. https://aaai.org/Symposia/Spring/sss17.php
  • 09/03/17: IK2017 Creativity and Intelligence in Brains and Machines. Spring School. Interdisciplinary College. Heinrich-Lübke-Haus Möhnesee- Günne, Germany 
  • 27/02/17: Origin of Language Evolution. Programming 2017, VUB, Brussels, Belgium.
  • 23/02/17: The promise of AI and Machine Learning. Global Digital Foundation - Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • 02/02/17: KÜNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE. Museum Aibteiberg. Germany.
  • 25/01/17: Consultation meeting on AI. European Commission. Belgium.
  • 22/12/16: Will AI rule the world. ECLT Venice Christmas Lecture. Venice, Italy 2016. http://www.unive.it/nqcontent.cfm?a_id=203652
  • 19-23/11/16: How much are our representations of knowledge influenced by our languages?. 20th International Conference on Knowledge Engineering and Knowledge Management (ECAW), Bologna, Italy 2016: http://ekaw2016.cs.unibo.it/?q=conference-program
  • 27/10/16: History and impact of research on the emergence of language. Sony CSL Science Festival/La science autrement, Paris, France 2016: http://csl.sony.fr/openhouse2016/index-en.html
  • 25-26/01/16:  Robotic models for symbolic gesture and its origins. Workshop on the Origins of Language, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (WIKO), Germany 2016: https://www.wiko-berlin.de/en/events/workshops/workshops-20152016/workshop_uri/showProgram/single/2015/origins-of-symbolic-gesture/?no_cache=1&cHash=2773686ae22a7b96a1c47567bad59670
  • 15/01/16: Progress in Studying Language Origins. KLI Colloquia, KLI Institute, Berlin, Germany 2016: http://www.kli.ac.at/events/event-detail/1452848400/progress-in-studying-language-origins
  • 02-04/12/15: How do you make MOOCs smarter? Use Artificial Intelligence! OEB Conference, Berlin, Germany 2015: http://www.presentations2go.eu/online-educa-berlin-dec-2-4-2015/
  • 24/11/15: Artificial Intelligence for War or Peace? Human+ The future of our species. Exhibition, ICREA-CCCB, 24 Nov 2015, Barcelona, Spain: http://www.cccb.org/en/exhibitions/file/human-/129032
  • 08-09/11/15: Breaking the walls to mind machines. Falling Walls Festival, Berlin, Germany. Discussion panel member at Demis Hassabis’s talk: http://falling-walls.com/videos/Demis-Hassabis-7186
  • 06-08/11/15: Self-Regulating Mental Development. Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA) Conference, Lyon, France 2015: http://bicasociety.org/meetings/2015/booklet.pdf
  • 16-17/10/15: CS360, Conceptual Spaces, Berlin, Germany 2015: https://conceptualspaces360.wordpress.com/events/
  • 25-27/09/15: Usage Based Grammar Learning as Insight Problem Solving. EuroAsianPacific Joint Conference on Cognitive Science. Torino, Italy 2015: http://www.eapcogsci2015.it/
  • 17-19/09/15: Some recent experiments in the emergence of recursive phrase structure.Workshop on Language Dynamics, Università Ca’Foscari, Venezia, Italy 2015: http://www.mathemacs.eu/fileadmin/mathemacs/mathemacs_language-dynamics-workshop_final-program.pdf
  • 14/09/15: Creativity and Problem Solving. Kreyon Day Workshop, Rome, Italy 2015: http://www.kreyon.net/kreyonWorkshop/
  • 30/06-01/07/15: Künstliche Intelligenz, Digitalisierung und Industrie 4.0. IMP Strategy Days, Innsbrück, Austria 2015: http://www.impconsulting.com/de/strategy-days-2015-badenwuerttemberg
  • 20-24/07/15: How to play the Syntax Game. EU Conference on Artificial Life 2015 (ECAL), York, UK 2015: https://www.cs.york.ac.uk/nature/ecal2015/
  • 05-11/07/15: Putting Evolution into Semantics. 11th Summer School on Ontology Engineering and the Semantic Web (SSSW) Bertinoro, Italy 2015: http://sssw.org/bici/2015/index.html
  • 25-31/07/15: Co-Acquisition of Spatial Language Syntax and Semantics. 24th International Join Conference in AI (IJCAI), Buenos Aires, Argentina 2015: http://ijcai-15.org/
  • 04-05/02/15: Hoe Het Allemaal Begon. Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN 25) Conference, Antwerp, Belgium 2015: http://www.linguistlist.org/callconf/browse-conf-action.cfm?confid=188056
  • 01/05/15: How can robots invent their own language? KI 2015, Günne at Lake Möhne, Germany 2015: http://ki2015.computational-logic.org/
  • 05/12/14: Round Table: Can intelligence exist without a body? Casparo: A tragicomic opera (Steels, L. and Vilarroya, O.). Iers College, Leuven, Belgium https://ai.vub.ac.be/casparo/2014/roundtable/ENG/
  • 09/11/2013: Breaking the wall to living robots. How Artificial Intelligence Research Tries to Build Intelligent Autonomous Systems. Falling Walls Conference, Berlin, Germany: http://www.falling-walls.com/videos/Luc-Steels-1648
  • 26/11/13: Walls and Bridges Festival Villa-Gillet. Transatlantic Insights. Debates, readings, performances, Saint-Etienne, France: http://www.villagillet.net/en/portal/walls-and-bridges/
  • 11/10/13: Workshop on "L'Eta de le Parole" (language processing). Internet Festival, Pisa, Italy: http://2013.internetfestival.it
  • 22/11/11: The Robot Culture. Ted-X Talk, Brussels, Belgium: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmcOCDVsBlo
  • 04-04/10/11: Why we need evolutionary semantics. KI 2011: AAI 34th Annual German Conference on AI, Berlin, Germany 2011:http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2161994
  • 22/05/11: What simulations of language evolution can tell us about human cognition. École Normal Superieur, Paris, France. 
  • 24/04/11: Experimental semiotics with robots. Yashiva University, New York, USA 
  • 27/09-02/10/09: The Grounded Color Naming Game. 18th IEEE Intern Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Toyama International Conference Center, Japan 2009: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?reload=true&punumber=5306517