Technical Committee on 
Autonomous Mental Development

Goals
Goals of the IEEE CIS Technical Committee on Autonomous Mental Development include:

• Identification of critical trends of research and applications in autonomous mental development.
• Creation of  IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development and nomination of best papers after  transactions have been created.
• Discussions on seminars/workshops/conferences critical to the progress of autonomous mental development.
• Discussions on qualified candidates for IEEE fellowships.
• Recommendations on people in the autonomous mental development community to be recognized as "pioneers in autonomous mental development".
• Supervision of activities with regard to efforts in coming up with Standards for autonomous mental development.
• Discussions on books that cover the subjects related to autonomous mental development.

Chair
Zhengyou Zhang
Microsoft Research
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052
USA
Email: zhang@microsoft.com

Past Chairs

• 2004, 2005: Juyang (John) Weng (Founding Chair), Michigan State University
  
• 2006, 2007: Brian Scassellati, Yale University

AMD TC Members

AMD Task Forces

AMD Newsletters (2004 - present)

Journal Publications (2000 - present)

Information on how to submit your journal publication information.

IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development

• The first issue of IEEE TAMD is published in May 2009, available here. You can also check out http://research.microsoft.com/~zhang/IEEE-TAMD/ieee_tamd_V1_N1.html for abstracts and links.
• The Journal is accepting submissions.
• Online submission website is located at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tamd-ieee .
• To prepare submissions, Authors are invited to follow the guidelines described in Information for Authors.

International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL)

• ICDL 2009, Shanghai, China, June 4-7, 2009
• ICDL 2008, Monterey, California, August 9-12, 2008
• ICDL 2007, Imperial College, London, July 11-13, 2007

International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob)

• EpiRob 2009, Venice, Italy, Nov. 12-14, 2009
• EpiRob 2008, University of Sussex, UK, July 30-31, 2008.
• EpiRob 2007, Rutgers, Piscataway, New Jersey, 5-7 November 2007