Events Milestones in Autonomous Mental Development (AMD). April 2004: The creation of AMD Newsletter, published by AMD Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.  It is the first serial publication dedicated to AMD. http://www.cse.msu.edu/amdtc/amdnl/ Feb. 2004: The creation of the Autonomous Mental Development Technical Committee of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.  It is the first technical committee on AMD. http://www.ieee-cis.org/amd/ June 12 - 15, 2002:  ICDL, the first series of open conferences dedicated to autonomous mental development for machines and humans was held in MIT, USA.  It was named 2nd ICDL after WDL. http://www.egr.msu.edu/icdl02/ September 17-18, 2001:  EpiRob, the first workshop of the series of International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics, was held in Lund, Sweden http://www.lucs.lu.se/epigenetic-robotics/index.html  April 5 - 7, 2000: WDL, the first workshop dedicated to Autonomous Mental Development (AMD) for machines and humans was held in Michigan State University, USA.  Developmental psychology and neural science have been studying cognitive development for humans and animals.  This is the first workshop dedicated to mental development for both machines and higher animals.   It has also an emphasis on computational understanding of mental development. http://www.cse.msu.edu/dl/