Conference on Artificial General Intelligence
The Conference on Artificial General Intelligence is a meeting of researchers in the field of Strong AI. It is organized by the AGI Organizing Committee and has been held every year since 2008. The conference was initiated by the 2006 Bethesda Artificial General Intelligence Workshop. The conference series has been hosted in diverse locations including the University of Memphis (sponsored by the AAAI); Arlington, Virginina (sponsored by the AAAI and Ray Kurzweil's KurzweilAI.net); Lugano, Switzerland (In Memoriam Ray Solomonoff and sponsored by the AAAI and KurzweilAI); Google headquarters in Mountain View, California (Sponsored by Google, Inc., the AAAI and KurzweilAI); and at the University of Oxford, United Kingdom (sponsored by the Future of Humanity Institute and KurzweilAI). The upcoming AGI-2013 will be held in Beijing, China.
The conference has atracted many speakers over the years including Joscha Bach, John L. Pollock, Nicholas L. Cassimatis, Bill Hibbard, Hugo de Garis, Stan Franklin, Steve Omohundro, Ben Goertzel, Itamar Arel, Eric Baum, Marcus Hutter, John E. Laird, Stephen R. Reed, Jürgen Schmidhuber, Richard S. Sutton, Randal A. Koene, Ernst Dickmanns, Peter Norvig, Zhongzhi Shi, Margaret Boden, David Hanson, Angelo Cangelosi, and Nick Bostrom.