An easy piece on Perception, Representation, Information and Intelligence.

Making Representations: From Sensation to Perception invited speaker at Materials and Sensations, France

Invited Tutorial on Belief Revision and Decision Making at the 2009 Pan-Hellenic Logic Symposium, Greece.

Belief revision techniques are used to model changes in perception and understanding; a crucial capability in decision making.

Presentation at the 2009 IP Scholars Conference @ the Cardozo School of Law New York on Intellectual Property Rights and Collaborative Innovation.

Innovation is the basis of value creation in business today and IP law plays a crucial and influential role in driving innovation activities at both the strategic and operational levels of organisations. Innovation has evolved from an activity based on building competitive advantage within a single organisation to leverging off collaborative advantage in a rich ecosystem of partners, prosumers, competitors, and academia. I will discuss the key strengths and weaknesses of existing IP law in the context of collaborative innovation, and identify crucial areas of opportunity and tension between sharing knowledge, promulgating innovation and the management of intellectual rights in the quest to achieve effective collaborative advantage.

Autonomous Learning of Commonsense Simulations with Benjamin Johnston, International Symposium on Commonsense Reasoning 2009.

Strategic Management Society Conference 2009 (Elected Representative for Knowledge and Innovation)

We joined forces with the University of Science and Technology China to create a new Robot Soccer Team WrightEagle Unleashed! which recently competed at the Robot Soccer Championship in China. The team topped its round robin group (scoring 22 goals, conceding 0) and made it to the Finals. Check us out on Chinese TV.

Business 2020s @ the Australian Innovation Festival!

IBM Faculty Award Recipient

Appointed Review Editor for the Artificial Intelligence Journal 2007 - 2010.

Appointed as Guest Professor at the University of Science and Technology of China 2006 - 2009.

Women in Information and Communication, The Australian National University, International Women's Day, (Invited Speaker).

UTS is a major sponsor for the Star Wars Science Meets Imagination Exhibition at the Powerhouse Museum. On April 26 I will be giving a Sunday Talk on "Robots: The Big Challenges and Opportunities Ahead". You are welcome to come along. Some of our robots will be there too ...

International Commonsense Reasoning Symposium 2009 (Co-Chair with Leora Morgenstern, IBM Research USA and Gerhard Lakemeyer Germany)

JURIX09 22nd International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, Rotterdam, December 2009 (Program Committee)

IP Scholar Conference New York City (Speaker)

International Commonsense Reasoning Symposium 2009 (Co-Chair with Leora Morgenstern, IBM Research and Gerhard Lakemeyer, Germany)

The Second Conference on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-09) USA, March 6-9, 2009 (Program Committee).

Social Semantic Web: Where Web 2.0 Meets Web 3.0 2009 Stanford University, USA (Speaker)

International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence 2009 Portugal (Program Committee)

Robot Soccer World Cup International Symposium 2009 Graz, Austria (Program Committee)

IJCAI-09 Workshop on Nonmonotonic Reasoning, Action and Change 2009 USA (Program Committee)

Panhellenic Logic Symposium 2009 Patras, Greece (Program Committee and Invited Tutorial Presenter)

IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology 2009 Milan, Italy (Program Committee Vice Chair)

International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Enhanced Quality of Life 2009 (Program Committee)

IEEE International Conference on e-Business Engineering China (Program Committee)