{"id":2763,"date":"2016-11-28T16:08:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-28T16:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/livingmachinesconference.eu\/?page_id=2763"},"modified":"2017-02-06T14:32:18","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T14:32:18","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/livingmachinesconference.eu\/2017\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"CONFERENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The development of future real-world technologies will depend strongly on our understanding and harnessing of the principles underlying living systems and the flow of communication signals between living and artificial systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Biomimetics<\/strong> is the development of novel technologies through the distillation of principles from the study of biological systems. The investigation of biomimetic systems can serve two complementary goals. First, a suitably designed and configured biomimetic artefact can be used to test theories about the natural system of interest. Second, biomimetic technologies can provide useful, elegant and efficient solutions to unsolved challenges in science and engineering.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Biohybrid<\/strong> systems are formed by combining at least one biological component\u2014an existing living system\u2014and at least one artificial, newly-engineered component. By passing information in one or both directions, such a system forms a new hybrid bio-artificial entity. The theme of the conference also encompasses biomimetic methods for manufacture, repair and recycling inspired by natural processes such as reproduction, digestion, morphogenesis and metamorphosis.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The following are some examples of \u201cLiving Machines\u201d as featured at past conferences:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Biomimetic robots and their component technologies (sensors, actuators, processors) that can intelligently interact with their environments.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Active biomimetic materials and structures that self-organize and self-repair.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Nature-inspired designs and manufacturing processes.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Biomimetic computers\u2014neuromimetic emulations of the physiological basis for intelligent behaviour.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Biohybrid brain-machine interfaces and neural implants.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Artificial organs and body-parts including sensory organ-chip hybrids and intelligent prostheses.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Organism-level biohybrids such as robot-animal or robot-human systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><strong>ACTIVITIES<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The main conference will take the form of a <strong>three-day single-track oral <\/strong>and<strong> poster presentation programme<\/strong>, 26th to 28th July 2017, hosted at Stanford University, California, USA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The conference programme will include <strong>five plenary lectures<\/strong> from leading international researchers in biomimetic and biohybrid systems, and the demonstrations of state-of-the-art living machine technologies<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">The full conference will be preceded by up to two days of <strong>Satellite Events<\/strong> hosted at Stanford University. see <a href=\"https:\/\/livingmachinesconference.eu\/2017\/worshops\/\">WORKSHOPS<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>SUBMITTING TO LIVING MACHINES\u00a02017<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">We invite both <strong>full papers<\/strong> and <strong>extended abstracts <\/strong>in areas related to the conference themes. see <a href=\"https:\/\/livingmachinesconference.eu\/2017\/submission\/\">SUBMISSION<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>EXPECTED DEADLINES<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong><span class=\"s3\">March 10h,<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\"><strong> 2017 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Paper submission\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong><span class=\"s4\">April 28th<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\"><strong>, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Notification of acceptance<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong><span class=\"s4\">May 15th<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\"><strong>, 2017<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Camera ready copy<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong><span class=\"s4\">July 25-28<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"s1\"><strong>, 2017\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0 \u00a0 Workshops and Conference<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>SPONSORSHIP<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Call for Sponsors.<\/strong> Organisations wishing to sponsor the conference in any way and gain the corresponding benefits by promoting themselves and their products to through conference publications, the conference web-site, and conference publicity are encouraged to contact the conference organisers to discuss the terms of sponsorship and necessary arrangements. We offer a number of attractive and good-value packages to potential sponsors. see\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/livingmachinesconference.eu\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/sponsorship_lm2017.pdf\">sponsorship_lm2017<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>ABOUT THE VENUE<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\">Living Machines 2017 will be hosted at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stanford.edu\/\">Stanford University<\/a> a world leading research University that this year celebrates its 125<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary (1891-2016). Stanford is located in California&#8217;s Bay Area, one of the most intellectually dynamic and culturally diverse areas of the US.<\/span><\/p>\n<h4><strong>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"><strong>Mark Cutkosky\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Stanford University (Local Organizing Chair)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> <strong>Paul Verschure\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Co-Chair)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> <strong>Tony Prescott\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0University of Sheffield (Co-chair)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> <strong>Michael Mangan\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0University of Lincoln (Programme Chair)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> <strong>Marc Desmulliez<\/strong> Heriott Watt University, Scotland (Steering Committee)<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 18px;\"> <strong>Anna Mura\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Communications)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/livingmachinesconference.eu\/2017\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/1st_cfp_LM2017.pdf\">1st_cfp_lm2017<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The development of future real-world technologies will depend strongly on our understanding and harnessing of the principles underlying living systems and the flow of communication signals between living and artificial systems. 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