2014 is the 60th anniversary of the untimely death of the 20th century \;mathematican\, codebreaker and early architecht of machine intelligence\, \;Alan Matheson Turing. We wish to remember the mammoth contribution of \;Turing in his 41 years with a specific focus on his idea on emotion. \;This will be through a special edition of the International Journal of \;Synthetic Emotions (IJSE) in 2014.
Call for original papers:
Intention to submit: \;15 July 2013
Deadline for full papers (8-10 pages) and short papers (4 pages max): 31 \;October 2013
Deadline for Book Reviews: \;30 November 2013
Short letters welcome\, deadline: \;15 December 2013
Special Issue Guest Editor: Dr. Huma Shah
IJSE Editor-in-Chief: Professor Jordi Vallverdú\;
Background
In his 1948 essay Intelligent Machinery Turing considered &ldquo\;the question \;as to whether it is possible for machinery to show intelligent \;behaviour&rdquo\; and recognised objections to the idea of intelligent machines \;&ldquo\;cannot be wholly ignored\, because the idea of &lsquo\;intelligence&rsquo\; is itself \;emotional rather than mathematical&rdquo\; (in Copeland\, 2004: p. 411). Turing \;added:
\n&ldquo\;A great positive reason for believing in the possibility of making \;thinking machinery is the fact that it is possible to make machinery to \;imitate any small part of a man. That the microphone does this for the \;ear\, and the television camera for the eye\, are commonplaces.&rdquo\; (p. 420)\, and \;&ldquo\;The extent to which we regard something as behaving in an intelligent \;manner is determined as much by our own state of mind and training as by \;the properties of the \;object under consideration &hellip\; with the same object therefore it is \;possible that one man would consider it as intelligent and another would \;not\; the second man would have found out the rules of its behaviour&rdquo\;. \;(p. 431) \;- Was Turing right in dismissing the significance of emotion\, or was he \;naï\;ve in appreciating them?
\nPapers should consider Turing&rsquo\;s idea and respond with the latest \;research on emotion with respect to human and machine intelligence. \;Findings from neuroscience are also encouraged however. \;Information on IJSE paper format and submission can be found on \;IGI-Global website for here:
http://www.igi-global.com/journals/guidelines-for-submission.aspx
Please send all submissions to \;h.shah@reading.ac.uk \;by deadline
6 June 2013
Reference
A.M. Turing\, &ldquo\;Intelligent Machinery&rdquo\;\, 1948 in B.J. Copeland\, The
Essential Turing: the ideas that gave birth to the Computer Age. Oxford:
Clarendon\, 2004\, pp.410&ndash\;432