Autonomous Mental Development
Task Forces

(For years 2004 and 2005)

Speech and Auditory Processing Task Force:

Stephen Levinson (chair), University of Illinois, Urbana (sel@ifp.uiuc.edu)

Stephen Grossberg, Boston University

James L. McClelland, CNBC, Carnegie Mellon University

Alex P. Pentland, The Media Lab., MIT

Ida Stockman, Michigan State University

Juyang Weng, Michigan State University

Yilu Zhang, GM Research and Development

Visual Processing Task Force:

Juyang Weng (chair), Michigan State University (weng@cse.msu.edu)

Narendra Ahuja, University of Illinois, Urbana

Rama Chellappa, University of Maryland

David J. Field, Cornell University

Stephen Grossberg, Boston University

Thomas S. Huang, University of Illinois, Urbana

Anil K. Jain, Michigan State University

Risto Miikkulainen, The University of Texas at Austin

Alex P. Pentland, The Media Lab., MIT

Tomaso Poggio, The Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT

Tieniu Tan, National Lab of Pattern Recognition, Beijing China

Yilu Zhang, GM Research and Development

Zhengyou Zhang, Microsoft Research

Haptic and Motor Processing Task Force:

Roderic Grupen (chair), University of Massachusetts at Amherst (grupen@cs.umass.edu)

(Under formation)

Languages and Language Acquisition Task Force:

Kim Plunkett (chair), Oxford University, UK (kim.plunkett@psy.ox.ac.uk)

James L. McClelland, CNBC, Carnegie Mellon University

Thomas R. Shultz, McGill University

Ida Stockman, Michigan State University

(Under formation)

Self-organization in Development Task Force:

Zhengyou Zhang (chair), Microsoft Research (zhang@microsoft.com)

Christian Balkenius, Lund University

Luc Berthouze, Neuroscience Research Institute AIST, Japan

Stephen Grossberg, Boston University

Stan Li, Microsoft Research Asia

Alex Pentland, MIT

Christopher G. Prince, University of Minnesota Duluth

Brian Scassellati, Yale University

Thomas Shultz, University of McGill

Mike Spratling, University of London

Mriganka Sur, MIT

Dave Touretzky, CMU

Juyang Weng, Michigan State University

Lide Wu, Fudan University

Emotion Task Force:

Javier R. Movellan (chair), Salk Institute (movellan@mplab.ucsd.edu)

(Under formation)

Adaptive Motivational Systems Task Force:

Olaf Sporns (chair), Indiana  University (osporns@indiana.edu)

Kenji Doya, RIKEN, Japan

Jean-Marc Fellous, Salk Institute

Stan Franklin, The University of Memphis

Stephen Grossberg, Boston University 

Michael Hasselmo, Boston University

Edgar Korner, Honda Research Institute Europe

Read Montague, Baylor College of Medicine, UK

Eytan Ruppin, Tel Aviv Univ. Isreal

Gert Westermann, Birkbeck College, UK

Reasoning and Inference Task Force:

Yilu Zhang (chair), GM Research and Development. (yilu.zhang@gm.com)

Dana H. Ballard, Rochester University

Paul Cohen, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Stan Z. Li, Microsoft Research, China

Michael Merzenich, Keck Center for Interactive Neuroscience, UCSF

Alex P. Pentland, The Media Lab., MIT

Deb Roy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Enrique H. Ruspini, Stanford Research Institute

Tom Shultz, McGill University

Juyang Weng, Michigan State University

Attention and Joint Attention Task Force:

Hideki Kozima (chair), Communications Research Lab. Japan (xkozima@nict.go.jp)

Minoru Asada, Osaka University, Japan (asada@ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp)  

Kerstin Dautenhahn, University of Hertfordshire, UK (K.Dautenhahn@herts.ac.uk)  

Stephen Grossberg, Boston University (steve@cns.bu.edu)  

Frederic Kaplan, Sony CSL Paris, France (kaplan@csl.sony.fr)

Robotics Task Force:

Minoru Asada (chair), Osaka University, Japan (asada@ams.eng.osaka-u.ac.jp)

Luc Berthouze, Neuroscience Research Institute AIST, Japan

Rodney Brooks, The Artificial Intelligence Lab, MIT

Yiannis Demiris, Imperial College London, UK

Roderic Grupen, University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Hideki Kozima, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan

Maja J. Mataric, University of Southern California

Rolf Pfeifer, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Brian Scassellati, Yale University

Stefan Schaal, University of South California

Sebastian Thrun, Stanford University

Dave Touretzky, CS, CMU

Juyang Weng, Michigan State University

Ming Xie, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

AMD Newsletters Task Force:

Yilu Zhang (chair), GM Research and Development (yilu.zhang@gm.com)

This AMD TC webpage is maintained by Nicholas Wassil (wassilni@msu.edu)