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AHM22 Registration is Open


You can now register for the AHM22, taking place at  BMA House, London, on 12 July.

**This is not a public event. Registration is only open to those within the TAS Programme**

See the programme
Register

Call for AHM22 Research Posters

You're invited to showcase your TAS works in the poster exhibition space at BMA House.

Read the submission guidelines and retrieve your poster template here

TAS research project blog

"To build technology that engages users, we need to engage those users in technology development."

Read the blog from the COTADS project | Developing machine learning models with codesign: how everyone can shape the future of AI

Ben Pritchard outside Johns Hopkins University

Thales on the TAS Hub USA Tour

Ben Pritchard, Chief Technologist, Autonomy Technology Centre at Thales joined our colleagues on a TAS Hub USA tour.

Read Ben's travel blog, including his visit to Good Systems and Texas Robotics

Events

TAS Robotics Workshop at KCL with Professor Oussama Khatib
 

21 June | King's College London | Register

Professor Oussama Khatib, Director of Stanford Robotics, will deliver a keynote at this joint event with King's Institute for Artificial Intelligence.

Keynote: The Era of Human-Robot Collaboration: Deep-Sea Robotic Exploration

Present your TAS Robotics work in the sandpit sessions
The Hub invites researchers from the Hub and Nodes to deliver short talks on their robotics work for a sandpit session in the afternoon.
Submit a:
  • Title
  • Bio
  • Abstract
to opsteam@tas.ac.uk by 01 June.

Health and Social Care Workshop 

07 - 08 June | 12:00 - 19:30 | Insitute for Safe Autonomy, York | Register
**In-person registration is now closed. Online registration available**

Organised by the UKRI TAS Node in Resilience on behalf of the UKRI TAS Programme, the UKRI Trustworthy Autonomous Systems in Health and Social Care Workshop will bring together health and social care practitioners, researchers, developers, operators, end-users, policymakers and regulators, to discuss challenges and solutions for the trustworthy adoption of autonomous systems in health and social care.

AHRC nTAIL - Symposium III: Immersion and Embodied Experiences: AI, VR and Inclusive Futures

13 - 14 June | 12:00 - 13:00 | University of Nottingham 
 Register

The symposium will explore how A.I., theatre and performance and ludic technologies impact our understanding of immersion and embodied experiences in the post-digital age. There will be scope for further exploration of the impact of A.I. development on VR, AR and MR technologies which are opening up new modes of experience and engagement with virtual worlds.

There will also be 3 workshops for attendees to take part in

TAS DTN Seminar: AI and the Imperative of Responsibility: Reconceiving AI Governance as Social Care

23 June | 13:00 - 14:00 | Register

Speaker: Professor Shannon Vallor, Baillie Gifford Professor in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence, Department of Philosophy, Edinburgh Futures Institute

 

EPSRC Engineering Net-Zero Week

20 - 24 June | 10:00 - 14:30 |
Online and at Advanced Research Centre, University of GlasgowMore

Bringing researchers, industry leaders and policy makers together to reflect on and raise awareness of the EPSRC investments made in this space

Workshop on Methods, Tools and Techniques for TAS Design and Development

21 - 24 June | Sophia Antipolis, France | Register

TAS Syllabus Lab is organising its first Workshop on Methods, Tools and Techniques for TAS Design and Development. This workshop is organised in collaboration with Cybernetics SocietyAustralian National University (ANU) School of CyberneticsThalesUniversity of Exeter.

This workshop focuses on methods, tools, and techniques to design and develop Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS).

Perspectives in Hybrid Autonomous Systems Engineering (PHASE2022),

28 - 30 June | Bristol | Register

TAS Hub Director, Professor Ramchurn will deliver a keynote covering Trustworthy Human-Machine Teaming from 15:00 – 15:45 on day one of the three-day programme taking place in Bristol.


The event brings together experts from academia and industry to discuss and debate what the next generations of autonomous systems will look like - systems that must be designed to have the human in or on the loop. Themes will range across human factors, systems, architecture, ethics, trust, robotics and autonomy

Sixth International Summer School on Computer Supported Cooperative Work

22 - 26 Aug | Bolzano, Italy | Register

The CSCW Summer School provides young researchers (PhD or post-doc) with the opportunity to deepen their understanding of CSCW as a research field and community. The interaction among the participants (both teachers and students) will promote the generation of new ideas and their confrontation with the experiences they have acquired in their field research. 

Good to Know

Congratulations


Please join us in congratulating...

Professor Shannon Vallor
who has been named the recipient of the 2022 Covey Award.

The Covey Award recognises “senior scholars with a substantial record of innovative research in computing and philosophy broadly conceived.” It is awarded by the International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP) executive board.

Shannon is the Principal Investigator on the Making Systems Answer, Responsibility Project.

 



Dame Wendy Hall for receiving the ACM Presidential Award in recognition for her technical contributions that have significantly influenced the development of the Semantic Web and the field of Web Science.

Wendy is the Skills Director for the TAS Hub.

Opportunities and Vacancies

PhD Studentship: Applying Human Factors for Resilient Future Transport Systems


Location: Highfield Campus, University of Southampton
Funding: For UK students, Tuition Fees and a stipend of £16,062 tax-free per annum for up to 3.5 years.
Project Title: Applying Human Factors for Resilient Future Transport Systems  
Closes: 31 July 2022

The University of Southampton are inviting applications for a PhD studentship in Human Factors Engineering within the Transportation Reseach Group. The project will focus on resilience within automated transport systems, developing methods to assess resilience and enhance the response of transport networks to possible disruptions


...read more
 

Two Post-Doctoral Positions in HRI and Collaborative Robotics


Location: University of Nottingham
Salary: See vacancy details
Project Title(s):
  1. Research Associate/Fellow in Robotics 
  2. Collaborative Robotics Research Fellow 
Closes: See vacancy details

...read more

Call for Papers: Special Issue on Ethics and Trust: From Principles to Practice

IEEE Intelligent Systems seeks submissions for this upcoming special issue.

Abstracts due: 30 June
Submissions due: 30 November
Publication: November/December 

...read more

Would you trust a robot capable of surprising you?

Volunteers wanted to take part in a study for the Functionality Node.
study on the ethical challenges surrounding autonomous systems (or robots) with evolving functionality. Powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI), these systems can rapidly adapt their functionality to changes in the environment or in the systems themselves without the need for a human programmer, and so they raise concerns around trust.
...read more

Advertise your vacancies with the Hub
If you have a TAS-related job opportunity in your team or institution, please contact Lou Male, to use the Hub's channels to reach more candidates

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Node seminar series

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Resilience Node series
Verifiability Node series
Security Node series
Governance and Regulation Seminars
Functionality Node
 
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