Igor Aleksander

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Igor Aleksander is currently (2005) an emeritus professor of Neural Systems Engineering at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London.

Research interests include:

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[edit] Career summary

  • educated in Italy and South Africa
  • arrived in UK (late 50s)
  • joined Standard Telephone and Cable (STC) as a graduate engineer
  • lecturer at Queen Mary College, London (1961)
  • Reader in Electronics at University of Kent at Canterbury (1968)
  • Professor of Electronics at Brunel University (1974)
  • Professor of Management of Information Technology at Imperial College (1984)
  • Head of Electrical Engineering and Gabor Professor of Neural Systems Engineering at Imperial College (1988)
  • Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (1988)
  • Pro-rector of External Relations at Imperial College (1997)

[edit] Research

[edit] Publications

  • The World in My Mind, My Mind In The World: Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in Humans, Animals and Machinespublished by Imprint Academic, 2005.
  • Impossible Minds: My neurons, My Consciousness published by Imperial College Press 1996 (ISBN 1-86094-036-6).
  • I. Aleksander (1996) Neuroconsciousness: A theoretical framework, Neurocomputing, vol. 12, no.2-3, pp. 91-111.
  • N. Sales, R. Evans, I. Aleksander (1996) Successful naive representation grounding, ArtificialIntelligence Review, vol. 10,no.1-2, pp.83-102.
  • C. Browne, I. Aleksander (1996) Digital general neural units with controlled transitionprobabilities, Electronics Letters, vol. 32, no. 9, pp.824-825 April.
  • N. P. Bradshaw, I. Aleksander (1996) Improving the generalisation of the N-tuple classifier using the effective VCdimension, Electronics Letters Vol: 32 Iss: 20 p. 1904-5 26 September.
  • I. Aleksander, C. Browne, R. Evans, N. Sales (1997) Conscious and Neural Cognizers: A Review and Some RecentApproaches, Neural Networks, Vol. 10, No. 7, pp 1303-1316.
  • I. Aleksander (1998) From WISARD to MAGNUS: A Family of Weightless Neural Machines, In: James Austin (Ed),RAM-Based Neural Networks, London: World Scientific, pp 18-30.
  • I. Aleksander (1999) Evolutionary Checkers, Nature, Vol. 402, Dec. 1999, pp857-860.
  • I. Aleksander (2000) Brain Inspired Computation, RSA Journal. Vol 4, No. 4, pp 74 - 78
  • How to Build a Mind, Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2000 [1].
  • Axioms and Tests for the Presence of Minimal Consciousness in Agents, Journal of Consciousness Studies 2003 [2].

[edit] Original work

  • design of the world's first neural pattern recognition system, the WISARD (marketed by CRS, Wokingham) in the 1980s
  • MAGNUS neurocomputational system (marketed by NTS as Neural Representation Modeller)

[edit] Prizes

  • Outstanding Achievement Medal for Informatics by the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2000)

[edit] UK TV appearances

[edit] External links

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