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ISIR 2023: Berkeley, California, July 26–29
Conference registration and abstract submissions now open! Abstract submission closes May 14, 2023.
We are delighted to announce the 23rd annual ISIR conference in Berkeley, California, USA! The conference will be held from Thursday, July 27 until Saturday, July 29 at the Hotel Shattuck Plaza, located at 2086 Allston Way, Berkeley, California. We will begin with a welcome reception sponsored by the Institute for Mental Chronometry on the evening of Wednesday, July 26, with drinks, refreshments, and guest speakers Steven Pinker and Frank Worrell! The student poster session will be held on the evening of the 27th and the social event dinner on the ...
New book: Intelligence by Jakob Pietschnig
Intelligence
How smart are we really?
Has humanity been getting smarter, can intelligence be trained, and what is intelligence anyway? Read about our understanding of intelligence, its origins, and meaning for everyday life in this book.
Read more here.
Lifetime Achievement Award: Aljoscha Neubauer
Aljoscha Neubauer of the University of Graz has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Field of Intelligence, ISIR’s highest honor. Aljoscha obtained his PhD at the University of Graz, Austria in 1986 and subsequently obtained his venia docendi (habilitation) in 1994 on the topic of intelligence and information processing speed. His experimental and meta-scientific work in this area contributed substantially to the understanding of the efficiency of neural networks.
His background in neuroscience led him to becoming particularly interested in the idea of biological intelligence measurement as a ...
Matt McGue: ISIR 2022 Distinguished Contributor Interview (video)
At our 2022 conference at the University of Vienna, we were treated to a fantastic interview by David Lubinski of Matt McGue, this year's pick for the Distinguished Contributor Interview! Professor McGue is beloved within the University of Minnesota's psychology department, where he is Regents Professor and co-director of the Minnesota Center for Twin and Family Research, as well as in the broader community of behavioral genetics and intelligence research. An author of over 375 papers with nearly 75,000 citations as of 2022, Matt has won the Dobzhansky Award for Lifetime Contributions to Behavioral Genetic Research (2011), the Shields Award for ...
Welcome to Vienna!
With ISIR 2022 beginning in just a few days, we wanted to provide a few last-minute updates to help make your conference experience as good as possible!
Location: The conference and all associated events will be held at the Main Building of the University of Vienna, located at Universitätsring 1. If you are lodging at the Hotel Regina, this is about an 8-minute walk from the conference venue. Please see this document for maps of the university and subway system.
Registration: For those who have not registered online, on-site registration will be available starting at 16:45 on Sunday evening and Monday morning at 8:45. Please register or check ...