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
Big success in Prague!
- Wednesday 6 October, 2010
Virtually all members of our team assisted in making the Construction Grammar tutorial a big success. The individual workshops were well-balanced and by the end of the tutorial all participants had become real grammar engineers! Also the Construction Grammar Conference itself was fruitful, with many talks by team members. Visit the conference website for the abstracts of the talks.
Two-day Pre-conference tutorial on Fluid Construction Grammar in Trnova (Czech Republic)
September 1-2, 2010
This tutorial introduces the latest developments in Fluid Construction Grammar. The tutorial homepage contains more information on the program and the actual content of the courses.
Language Games for Autonomous Robots at IK 2010 in Guenne (Germany)
March 12-19, 2010
This technical course is a great opportunity to get to know our research on language games, conceptualization and Fluid Construction Grammar. By means of hands-on exercises the participants can really experience the current state of research in our lab.
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
