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  • Stephen Cave: Intelligence as Ideology: From IQ to AI

    MAR23 5.006 Marchstraße 23, Berlin, Germany

    A Thursday Talk on a Friday! Dr Stephen Cave is Executive Director of the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence and Senior Research Associate in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge He earned his PhD in philosophy from Cambridge, then spent a decade in the British Foreign Office, where he served as a policy

  • Surjo R. Soekadar (Charité – University Medicine Berlin): Brain/Neural-Machine Interfaces for Assistance and Beyond

    MAR23 5.006 Marchstraße 23, Berlin, Germany

    Thursday Morning Lectures Abstract: Implementation of neural control in the application of advanced robotic systems promises restoration of autonomy and quality of life in severe paralysis. Moreover, neurotechnologies that are capable of analyzing, interpreting and modulating brain activity in real-time promise to advance our understanding of the underlying mechanisms of human brain functions. But what

  • Distinguished Lecture Series: William H. Warren (Brown University)

    MAR23 4.064 Marchstraße 23, Berlin, Germany

    Distinguished Lecture Series On 12 December 2019, Professor William H. Warren (Brown University) will kick off the SCIoI Distinguished Lecture Series. William Warren earned his undergraduate degree at Hampshire College (1976), his Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the University of Connecticut (1982), did post-doctoral work at the University of Edinburgh, and has been a professor

  • Adaptive Learning and Intelligent Tutor Systems: Rebecca Lazarides, Niels Pinkwart, Verena Hafner (SCIoI)

    MAR23 5.006 Marchstraße 23, Berlin, Germany

    Thursday Morning Lectures Abstract: In educational psychology, the benefits and limitations of adaptive learning processes are currently under debate. In computer science, Intelligent Tutor Systems (ITS) exist that are adaptive to learners' level of skills and knowledge, but it is an open research question how novel user modelling approaches and feedback strategies in ITS incorporating

  • Internal Models and Predictive Coding from a Robotics and Cognitive Science Perspective: Prof. Bruno Lara and Dr. Alejandra Ciria

    MAR23 5.006 Marchstraße 23, Berlin, Germany

    Prof. Bruno Lara (Cognitive Robotics, UAEM, Mexico) and Dr. Alejandra Ciria (Cognitive Psychology, UNAM, Mexico) will give a presentation on their research on internal models and predictive coding from a Robotics and Cognitive Science perspective. They are currently visiting researchers at the Adaptive Systems Group at HU Berlin with an Alexander-von-Humboldt Fellowship. Abstract: A cognitive

  • Admissions 2020

    Symposium and Interviews for prospective (post)doctoral researchers.

  • Wissenschaft im Sauriersaal – Lecture by Prof. Jens Krause (SCIoI) (in German)

    PI Lecture
    Naturkundemuseum

    On SCIoI faculty member Professor Jens Krause will open this year's lecture series with a talk on swarm intelligence: "Ob Mensch oder Tier: Warum der Schwarm intelligenter ist als der Einzelne". The lecture is in German. Link to event page here Photo by: Rodrigo Friscione Wyssmann

  • Alex Kacelnik (University of Oxford): What Are Minds for, and How Do They Work?

    PI Lecture
    MAR23 4.064 Marchstraße 23, Berlin, Germany

    PI Lecture Series Abstract: The biological perspective on intelligence is well represented by the following quotes: “Is it not reasonable to anticipate that our understanding of the human mind would be aided greatly by knowing the purpose for which it was designed?” (George Williams) and “Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish