The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, or
short VUB AI-Lab, was founded in 1983 by Luc Steels and is part of the Computer Science
Department.
Over the years, more than hundred researchers have worked at
the laboratory. They have built a large number of artificial systems to
investigate aspects of intelligence: knowledge systems, autonomous robots,
machine learning systems, natural language processing components, design and
implementation tools. See our publications.
The robotic fish built at the AI-Lab
(1992)
Currently, the laboratory focuses on two research themes:
origins of language and
robotic agents.
Members of the laboratory teach introductory and advanced courses in artificial
intelligence and autonomous systems.
Large scale experiment on language origins with
robotic agents (1999-2000)
News
Successful summer school on Embodied Language Games and Construction Grammar
- Wednesday 14 October 2009
The International Summer SChool on Embodied Language Games and Construction Grammar was a big success! 100 participants worked for 7 days on different topics regarding evolutionary linguistics. Visit the conference homepage for a after conference overview.
International Summer School on Embodied Language
Games and Construction Grammar
August 29 to September 4, 2009, Palazzone di
Cortona, Tuscany, Italy
Human natural languages are complex adaptive systems,
forever emergent and adapting to the needs of their
communities. This insight is currently revolutionising
many branches of linguistics and this Summer School feels
the pulse of these exciting developments. It brings
together typologists and historical linguists studying
language variation and the emergence of new grammatical
structure, evolutionary linguists modeling the origins and
evolution of language, cognitive linguists investigating
the cognitive foundations of language usage and learning,
complex systems researchers using methods from statistical
physics to study the semiotic dynamics of evolving
languages, and computational linguists and AI researchers
carrying out experiments to achieve open-ended
communication with autonomous robots.
Visit the conference homepage
