Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• PY. Oudeyer and M. Lopes have been general co-chair of Second Interdisciplinary Symposium on Information Seeking, Curiosity and Attention (Neurocuriosity 2016), London, UK (150 participants). https://goo.gl/BYL0h4

• D. Roy has been general chair of the colloquium "Robotique et Education" in Bordeaux, june 2016, http://dm1r.fr/colloque-robotique-education/.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Manuel Lopes co-organized the R:SS 2016 workshop on Bootstrapping Manipulation Skills 06.2016 http://www.bootstrapping-manipulation.com/

• Alexander Gepperth co-organized a special session ("Incremental learning algorithms and application") on ESANN 2016, together with Barbara Hammer of Bielefled university (Germany).

• PY. Oudeyer has been member of the steering committee of the IEEE ICDL-Epirob conference.

• PY. Oudeyer has been member of the steering committee of the fOSSa conference.

• PY. Oudeyer has been "Robotics Liaison" of IJCNN 2017, Anchorage, Alaska.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• David Filliat was Associate Editor for IROS.

• PY. Oudeyer has been member of the PC committee of IEEE ICDL-Epirob 2016.

• Alexander Gepperth was member of the program committe for IJCNN 2016, ECAI 2016 and ESANN 2016.

Reviewer

• David Filliat was reviewer for the IFAC, IV, RFIA, ICRA conferences.

• Sébastien Forestier was reviewer for IEEE ICDL-Epirob

• Manuel Lopes was reviewer for IEEE IROS, IEEE ICDL-EPIROB, IEEE ICRA, IJCAI, NIPS

• Thibaut Munzer was reviewer for IEEE IJCAI.

• Baptiste Busch reviewer for IEEE RO-MAN.

• PY. Oudeyer has been a reviewer for the conferences IEEE ICDL-Epirob and Humanoids 2016.

• Alexander Gepperth was reviewer for ESANN 2016, IJCNN2016, IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Vehicles (IV) and ECAI 2016

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• PY. Oudeyer has been editor of IEEE CIS Newsletter on Cognitive and Developmental Systems: https://openlab-flowers.inria.fr/t/ieee-cis-newsletter-on-cognitive-and-developmental-systems/129

• PY. Oudeyer has been associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems

• PY Oudeyer has been associate editor of Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L).

• PY. Oudeyer has been associate editor of Frontiers in Neurorobotics and Frontiers in Humanoid Robotics.

• PY. Oudeyer has been Associate editor of International Journal of Social Robotics (Springer).

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• David Filliat was reviewer for Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics.

• Alexander Gepperth was reviewer IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

• Anna-Lisa Vollmer was reviewer for Frontiers in Robotics and AI and IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems.

• PY. Oudeyer has been a reviewer for the Robotics and Automation Magazine, the Journal of Language Evolution.

Invited Talks

• David Filliat gave an invited presentation “Apprentissage pour les vehicules intelligents et la robotique developpementale” during the workshop “Intelligence Artificielle et Véhicule à Conduite Deleguee” organized by VEDECOM on september 28th.

• PY. Oudeyer, "Open-source art/science with Poppy Project", 15th january, Journée ECARTS, Univ. Bordeaux.

• PY. Oudeyer, "Mondes Mosaiques", Librairie Mollat, 2 février, Bordeaux.

• PY. Oudeyer, "Self-organization and active learning of language", 21 mars, Lattice, ENS Paris.

• PY. Oudeyer, "Intelligence artificielle et robotique", 21 mars, Grand Palais, Paris.

• PY. Oudeyer, "Intelligene artificielle et philosophie", 20 mai, Bordeaux.

• PY Oudeyer, "How robotic modelling can help us understand complex dynamics in development", 22 may, Views by Two keynote, International Conference on Infant Studies, New-Orleans.

• PY. Oudeyer, "Robotique éducative: les projets de l'équipe Flowers", Colloque Robotique et Education, Bordeaux.

• PY. Oudeyer, "Curiosity, exploration and learning in humans and machines", 9 july, ISSAS Summer School, Geneva, Switzerland.

• PY. Oudeyer, "How robotic modelling can help us understand complex dynamics in language and sensorimotor development", 9th september, Creativity and Evolution Summer School, Como, Italy.

• PY Oudeyer, "Comment la modélisation robotique aide à comprendre la dynamique du développement de l'enfant", 18 septembre, Colloque Biologie et Information, Cerisy, France.

• PY. Oudeyer, "Active exploration for lifelong developmental learning in humans and machines: intrinsic motivation, maturation and social guidance", 5th october, Google Deepmind seminar, London, UK.

• PY. Oudeyer, "Diverstiy of forms and developmental functions of curiosity-driven exploration", 8th october, London UK.

• PY. Oudeyer, "Intelligence artificielle et humain", Entretiens de la Cité, 5th november, Lyon, France.

• PY. Oudeyer, "Artificial intelligence and robotics: scientific, technological and societal challanges", 8th november, Académie des Technologies, Paris, France.

• PY. Oudeyer, "From fundamental research in models of human learning to educational applications", 16th november, Journée Learning Lab, Paris, France.

• PY. Oudeyer, "Diverstiy of forms and developmental functions of curiosity-driven exploration", 17th november, Journée GdR Robotique et Neuroscience, Bordeaux.

• PY. Oudeyer, "Machine learning and robotics", 5th december, Technion ConnectedWorld conference, Paris.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

PY. Oudeyer has been chair of IEEE Computational Intelligence Society technical committee on cognitive and developmental systems (10 task forces, 65 members); The activities of the TC are described at: https://openlab-flowers.inria.fr/t/ieee-cis-tc-on-cognitive-and-developmental-systems/41

Scientific Expertise

• M Lopes was expert for the EU Commission scientific programme.

• PY. Oudeyer has been an expert for the European Commission, the Polish National Research Agency, and the Swedish National Research Agency.

• PY. Oudeyer has been expert for Main à la Pâte for the textbook project “1, 2, 3: Codez!” to teach computer science in primary schools.

• PY. Oudeyer has been expert for Académie des Technologies and OPECST on artificial intelligence and its interaction with society.

Research Administration

PY. Oudeyer has been scientific responsible of Inria-Ensta-ParisTech EPC.