pei wang ubgbqxjucgmailcom apologies receive multiple copies message first call papers first conference artificial general intelligence agi08 march 13 2008 memphis tennessee usa httpwwwagi08org paper submission deadline september 30 2007 field artificial intelligence ai initially directly aimed construction thinking machines computer systems humanlike general intelligence task proved difficult steps direction ai researchers focused producing ai systems displaying intelligence regarding specific tasks relatively narrow domains recent years however situation changing researchers recognized necessity feasibility returning original goals field increasingly call transition current focus highly specialized narrow ai problem solving systems back confronting difficult issues human level intelligence broadly artificial general intelligence agi encouraged recent success several smallerscale agirelated meetings wwwagi08orgrelatedphp taken initiative facilitate first international conference agi agi08 conference give agi researchers opportunity presenting research results exchanging ideas topics common interest conference also discuss possibility creating new organization promote coordinate agi research conference explicitly open various techniques used seeking realize general intelligence instance symbolic connectionist evolutionary robotic mathematical integrative approaches new approaches conference organizers never heard particularly interested papers describing concrete reasonably wellfleshedout agi projects meaning research projects based coherent theory intelligence whole involve concrete engineering plan oriented toward implementing relevant conception general intelligence computer system already produced concrete results either practical theoretical however also open highquality submissions address key aspects agi purely theoretical perspective discuss agi projects earlier stage development list suggested topics wwwagi08orgsuggestedphp conference website though topics also welcomed long recognizable relation agi defined agi08 interdisciplinary meeting besides computer scientists engineers also welcome researchers cognitive science psychology linguistics neuroscience philosophy allied fields conference format tentative schedule wwwagi08orgschedulephp available conference website briefly speaking conference consist several technical sessions poster session special sessions well technical session organized around topic time talks panel discussion general discussion paper submission agi08 accept two types submissions fulllength papers 12 pages short position statements 5 pages submissions prepared using ios templates wwwiospressnlauthco instruction_crchtml either latex ms word papers submitted electronically details submission procedure announced due date conference website agi08 proceedings published ios press major ai publisher accepted papers also available online open access whether accepted paper either length presented talk poster determined program committee part based paper quality assessed anonymous reviewers part according extent paper addresses topic core interest agi community acceptance paper based assumption one authors attend conference present paper important due dates september 30 2007 paper submission november 30 2007 acceptance notification december 20 2007 cameraready copy submission organizing committee stan franklin chair franklin memphisedu sidney dmello sdmello memphisedu ben goertzel ben novamentenet bruce klein bruce novamentenet lee mccauley mccauley memphisedu pei wang peiwang templeedu program committee ben goertzel cochair novamente llc pei wang cochair temple university sam adams ibm research james anderson brown university mike anderson franklin marshall college mark h bickhard lehigh university yaneer baryam new england complex systems institute eric baum baum research enterprises henry brighton max planck institute human development nick cassimatis rensselaer polytechnic institute hernan castro intel corporation andrew coward australian national university hugo de garis wuhan university debbie duong science applications international corporation wlodzislaw duch nicolaus copernicus university richard duro universidade da coruña stan franklin university memphis david friedlander behavior recognition systems phil goetz national library medicine josh storrs hall institute molecular manufacturing marcus hutter australian national university cliff joslyn los alamos national laboratory nikola kasabov auckland university technology randal koene boston university christian lebiere carnegie mellon university sooyoung lee korea advanced institute science technology douglas lenat cycorp moshe looks science applications international corporation bruce maclennan university tennessee perlis university maryland matthias scheutz university notre dame juergen schmidhuber dalle molle institute artificial intelligence lokendra shastri international computer science institute aaron sloman university birmingham david g stork ricoh innovations john gerald taylor kings college london karin verspoor los alamos national laboratory paul vogt tilburg university mark waser books international maryanne william university technology sydney information httpwwwagi08org thu 07 aug 2008 182327 0400 uai cfp first conference artificial general intelligence agi08