Igor Aleksander
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Igor Aleksander is (2005) an emeritus professor of Neural Systems Engineering at Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London who has worked on neuromodelling of the visual system in primates, visuo-verbal system in humans, modelling the effect of anaesthetics on awareness, and the meaning of artificial consciousness. He designed one of the first neural pattern recognition system, the WISARD (marketed by CRS, Wokingham) in the 1980s.
[edit] Career summary
He was educated in Italy and South Africa, arriving in UK (late 50s). He became Head of Electrical Engineering and Gabor Professor of Neural Systems Engineering at Imperial College in 1988. He was made a Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (1988), and he served as Pro-rector of External Relations at Imperial College (1997).
[edit] Selected 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).
- N. Sales, R. Evans, I. Aleksander (1996) Successful naive representation grounding, Artificial Intelligence Review, vol. 10,no.1-2, pp.83-102.
- I. Aleksander, C. Browne, R. Evans, N. Sales (1997) Conscious and Neural Cognizers: A Review and Some Recent Approaches, Neural Networks, Vol. 10, No. 7, pp 1303-1316.
- I. Aleksander (1999) Evolutionary Checkers, Nature, Vol. 402, Dec. 1999, pp857-860.
- 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].
