Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures 2010 is the first meeting of the BICA Society.  Keynote speakers include Owen Holland, Steve Grossberg, and Alexandr Letichevsky.

The challenge of creating a real-life computational equivalent of the human mind requires that we better understand at a computational level how natural intelligent systems develop their cognitive and learning functions.  The narrow focus of BICA 2010 on this challenge brings together four schools of thought: (1) computational neuroscience, that tries to understand how the brain works in terms of connectionist models; (2) cognitive modeling, pursuing higher-level computational description of human cognition; (3) human-level artificial intelligence, aiming at generally intelligent artifacts that can replace humans at work; and (4) human-like learners: artificial minds that can be understood by humans intuitively, that can learn like humans, from humans and for human needs. The mission of BICA 2010 is to provide a forum for a joined discussion of the four schools unified by one overarching goal.

BICA 2010 is co-located with the AAAI Fall Symposium Series.