Crag Reading Group

Every Wednesday from 6 pm to 7 pm Open to all students of the University of Edinburgh and more contact Luis de Miranda luis.demiranda@ed.ac.uk or follow the announcements on our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/crag.edinburgh/

The Anthrobotics Cluster

‘The distinction between us and robots is going to disappear.’ Rodney Brooks, Robot: The Future of Flesh and Machines, 2002. The Crag – Creation of Reality Group, directed by Luis de Miranda – is co-developing The Anthrobotics Interdisciplinary Network at the University of Edinburgh along with the school of informatics, with Ram Ramamoorthy and Michael […]

Crag Reading Group | Ways of Worldmaking

Every Wednesday from 6 pm to 7 pm contact luis.demiranda@ed.ac.uk Started on Wednesday 20 2016 Ways of Worldmaking, by Nelson Goodman Every week we discuss one new chapter Feel free to join at every moment (but read the chapters before here) room 3.30 LLC 50 George Square (room number may change, please contact luis.demiranda@ed.ac.uk)

Collective Workshop on Creation of Reality – Crag Confluence 2015

Conclusive collective Workshop of the CRAG Confluence 2015 In the first 6 minutes, Luis de Miranda recaptures the essence of the previous days and talks of the conference The next hour is dedicated to the theme of creation of reality and how it can be addressed in a cross-disciplinary manner Eventually the theme of the […]

The Articulation of Enkinaesthetic Entanglement, a Crag talk by Dr Susan Stuart | 14 October 2015

The Articulation of Enkinaesthetic Entanglement, a Crag talk by Dr Susan Stuart Crag Seminar 2015-2016 14 October 2015 Project Room LLC School 50 George Square The University of Edinburgh 17.30 to 18.30 Abstract I will present an argument for the necessary co-articulation of meaning within our felt enkinaesthetic engagement with our world. ‘Enkinaesthesia’ refers to […]

‘Creation of Reality’: Anthropology meets Robotics (public round table with anthropologist Tim Ingold and Artificial Intelligence specialist Alan Bundy)

THE CRAG INTERNATIONAL CONFLUENCE 2015 is happy to invite you to a round table with Tim Ingold (Anthropologist at the University of Aberdeen), Alan Bundy (Artificial Intelligence Specialist at the University of Edinburgh) and Special Guests on the following theme: CREATION OF REALITY? Whatever these 3 words suggest to you, come and confront your ideas […]

Could a Computer Create its Own Representations?, a Crag Talk by Alan Bundy

Could a Computer Create its Own Representations? Alan Bundy School of Informatics University of Edinburgh Keynote talk at the CRAG INTERNATIONAL CONFLUENCE Saturday 5 December 9.30 am Project Room 50 George Square Artificial Intelligence systems need to maintain a representation of their environment so that they can interpret sensory information and plan actions. This is […]