In addition to the main conference, we will have both a preconference workshop and tutorial:
Morning: "Introduction to Brains as Emergent Turing Machines" (Juyang Weng)
Afternoon: "Mechanisms of learning in social contexts" (Michael Goldstein, Chen Yu)

== Conference description
The past decade has seen the emergence of a new scientific field that studies how intelligent biological and
artificial systems develop sensorimotor, cognitive, emotional and social abilities, over extended periods of time,
through dynamic interactions with their physical and social environments. This field lies at the intersection
of a number of scientific and engineering disciplines including Neuroscience, Developmental Psychology,
Developmental Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Computational Neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence, Machine
Learning, and Robotics. Various terms have been associated with this new field such as Autonomous Mental
Development, Epigenetic Robotics, Developmental Robotics, etc., and several scientific meetings have been
established. The two most prominent conference series of this field, the International Conference on
Development and Learning (ICDL) and the International Conference on Epigenetic Robotics (EpiRob), are now
joining forces for the fifth time and invite submissions for a joint conference in 2015, to explore and
extend the interdisciplinary boundaries of this field.

== BABYBOT CHALLENGE
We are excited to announce a new ICDL-EpiRob conference feature: the BABYBOT CHALLENGE. The
goal of the challenge is to use the tools of developmental robotics to replicate and extend the key findings
from one of three selected human-infant studies. These will be presented during a special session.

== Keynote speakers
Prof. Dare Baldwin, Dept. of Psychology, University of Oregon, USA
Prof. Kerstin Dautenhahn, School of Computer Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK
Prof. Asif Ghazanfar, Dept. of Psychology, Princeton University, USA

== Program committee
General Chairs:
Matthew Schlesinger (Southern Illinois Univ.)
Dima Amso (Brown University)

Bridge Chairs:
Jeffrey Krichmar (UC Irvine)
Bertram Malle (Brown University)

Program Chairs:
Anne Warlaumont (UC Merced)
Clemént Moulin-Frier (INRIA)

Publications Chairs:
Lisa Meeden (Swarthmore College)

Publicity Chairs:
Lola Cañamero (Univ. of Hertfordshire)
Matthias Rolf (Osaka University)
Benjamin Rosman (CSIR)

Local chairs:
David Sobel (Brown University)
Thomas Serre (Brown University)

Finance chairs:
Clayton Morrison (University of Arizona)