Kenny Coventry

MARCH 2012 – Kenny invited to European Parliament in Brussels

admin — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:52:57 +0000

MARCH 2012 – Kenny goes to Brussels to the European Parliament to attend a European Research Leadership in Robotics working lunch debate. The debate, organised by Professor Ioannis A. Tsoukalas (MEP) and Professor Angelo Cangelosi (Plymouth University), brings together European and US scientists, industry experts, and representatives of the European Institutions to explore the state of the art in robotics research and discuss future R&D challenges and plans to sustain European leadership in this field.

AUGUST 2012 – Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference (ESLP 2012) comes to Newcastle.

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:32:20 +0000

AUGUST 2012 – Kenny is chairing the Embodied and Situated Language Processing Conference ESLP 2012) to be held in Newcastle Upon Tyne, August 28th-30th, 2012.

This event, previously hosted in San Diego in 2010 and Bielefeld in 2011, brings together leading experts from all over the world interested in the role non-linguistic systems, such as the vision and action systems, play in language processing.

The confirmed keynote speakers for the event are Jesse Snedeker (Harvard University, USA), Gerry Altmann (York University, UK) and Bernard Hommel (University of Leiden, the Netherlands).

More information about this event can be found here.

APRIL 2012 – Moscow visit to Russian State University for the Humanities.

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:30:50 +0000

APRIL 2012 – Kenny will be visiting Moscow as a keynote speaker at the Conference on Interdisciplinarity in Cognitive Science Research, to be held at the Russian State University for the Humanities. He will talk about the mapping between spatial language and spatial cognition, featuring research funded by the Economic and Social Research council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

MARCH 2012 – Kenny gives talk with Alastair Campbell on decision making.

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:27:09 +0000

MARCH 2012 – Kenny gives a talk with Alastair Campbell (former advisor to PM Tony Blair), on the science of decision making. The event was organised by Newcastle Science City, and staged in association with the Newcastle Scienve Festival. Kenny talked about the science of decision making, and Alastair discussed the realities of decision making in government. The individual talks were followed by a joint question and answer session from the audience.

Laura Lord, Newcastle Science City: “Both Kenny and Alastair went down a storm and I have heard nothing but positive comments about both presentations.”

Head of Newcastle City Library, where the talks took place, said “It was a real pleasure to see a full house at the Library enthralled by two very different, but wonderfully entertaining speakers.”

DECEMBER 2011 – New film showcases work on mapping between language and perception.

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 15:16:05 +0000

Have you ever wondered whether the language you speak affects the way you think? Have you ever thought about the relationship between language and your perceptual systems?

A new film, funded by the Economic and Social Research Council, showcases some of the research in the mapping between language and perception undertaken by Kenny and his colleagues in the Cognition and Communication Research Centre.

The film can be viewed here.