[alife] Bio-ADIT 2006 | Call for Participation and Demo Session

[Christof Teuscher]

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                Bio-ADIT 2006 | Call for Participation
                                Call for Demo Session
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                  The Second International Workshop on
                    Biologically Inspired Approaches
                   to Advanced Information Technology

                        January 26 - 27, 2006
                Senri Life Science Center, Osaka, Japan

          Web site: http://www.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/bio-adit2006/


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           | Early Registration Deadline: December 26, 2005 |
           | Demo Proposal Deadline: December 26, 2005      |
           |         (visit the Workshop Web site)          |
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Sponsored by - The 21st Century Center of Excellence Program of
                The Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science
                and Technology (MEXT), Japan, under the Program Title
                "New Information Technologies for Building a Networked
                 Symbiosis Environment"

Technically Co-Sponsored by - IEEE ComSom Japan Chapter


    Bio-ADIT 2006 follows the success of the first workshop Bio-ADIT
2004 held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL),
Switzerland in January 2004.  The workshop is intended to provide an
effective forum for original research results in the field of bio-
inspired approaches to advanced information technologies.   It will
also serve to foster the connection between biological paradigms and
solutions to building the next-generation information systems.
In particular, the aim of the workshop is to explore and discuss
how biologically inspired approaches can help designing the next
generation of information systems which, like their biological counter
parts, will be capable of adaptation, self-organization, replication,
and self-repair.

   Bio-ADIT 2006 has three invited talks, 22 oral presentations and
8 poster presentations that are selected by careful reviews.
The talks and presentations cover a large range of topics including
networking, robotics, evolutionary computation, neural computation,
biochemical networks, reconfigurable hardware, and machine vision.
The contributions range from basic research in biology and in
information technology, to more application-oriented developments
in software and in hardware.


INVITED TALKS:
   James C. Liao (University of California, USA)
     Design of Synthetic Gene-Metabolic Circuits

   Rolf Pfeifer (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
     Morphological Computation: Connecting Brain, Body, and Environment

   Toshio Yanagida (Osaka University, Japan)
     Single Molecule Nano-Bioscience

WORKSHOP PROGRAM:
   http://www.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/bio-adit2006/

REGISTRATION:
   The deadline of early registration is December 26, 2005.
   Visit the workshop Web site http://www.ist.osaka-u.ac.jp/bio- 
adit2006/
   for the registration.


DEMO SESSION
   Bio-ADIT 2006 reserves the Demo Session to demonstration of  
applications
   and experiments in bio-inspired approaches to advanced information  
technologies.
   Researchers are invited to submit short proposals that describe the
   demonstrated systems and clarify the contribution of the  
demonstration to
   this field.  The proposals of two pages in PDF or PS format should  
be sent to
     Toshimitsu Masuzawa (masuzawa at ist.osaka-u.ac.jp)
   by the deadline of the demonstration proposal
     December 26, 2005.


We are looking forward to seeing you at Bio-ADIT 2006!


PC co-Chairs
   Professor Auke Jan Ijspeert
   School of Computer and Communication Sciences
   Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland
   E-mail: Auke.Ijspeert at epfl.ch

   Professor Toshimitsu Masuzawa
   Graduate School of Information Science and Technology
   Osaka University, Japan
   E-mail: masuzawa at ist.osaka-u.ac.jp



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Christof Teuscher, PhD
Los Alamos National Laboratory
http://www.teuscher.ch/christof