Stan Franklin (born August 14, 1931) is an American scientist. He is the W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor at the

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, and co-director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems.Shepard, Scott.
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''Memphis Business Journal'' (February 1, 2004) He is the author of ''

Artificial Minds ''Artificial Minds: An Exploration of the Mechanisms of Mind'' is a book written by Stan Franklin and published in 1995 by MIT Press. The book is a wide-ranging tour of the development of artificial intelligence as of the time it was written. As ...

'', (

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, 1995)Holland, Owe
Machine Consciousness
p. vi-vii (2003) (short biographical paragraph in Contributors section) and the developer of

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and its successor

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, both computational implementations of Global Workspace Theory. He is founder of the Cognitive Computing Research Group at the University of Memphis.

Life and work

Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1931. His graduate degrees are from

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, his undergraduate degree from the University of Memphis. He has been on the faculties of the

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, the

Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur (IIT Kanpur) Hindi: भारतीय प्रौद्योगिकी संस्थान कानपुर) is a public institute of technology located in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, India. It was ...

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, and the University of Memphis. He was formerly a

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, who introduced the concept of Sequential Spaces::https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequential_space. He then became first a

computer scientist A computer scientist is a person who is trained in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...

and then a cognitive scientist, Franklin has worked for some years on "conscious" software agents, which model the global workspace theory of consciousness. These autonomous agents computationally model human and animal cognition, and provide testable hypotheses for cognitive scientists and

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s. This work is funded by the

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and has been the subject of numerous papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings.

Publications

Franklin has authored or co-authored numerous academic papers as well as a book entitled ''Artificial Minds'' published by MIT Press, which was a primary selection of the Library of Science book club, and has been translated into Japanese and Portuguese. * *Franklin, S., Strain, S., Snaider, J., McCall, R., & Faghihi, U. (2012)." Global Workspace Theory, its LIDA Model and the Underlying Neuroscience". ''Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 1'', 32–43, doi: 10.1016/j.bica.2012.04.001 *D'Mello, Sidney K., & Franklin, S. (2011). "A Cognitive Model's View of Animal Cognition". ''Current Zoology, 54''(4), 499–512. *Wallach, W.; Franklin, S.; & Allen, C. (2010). "A Conceptual and Computational Model of Moral Decision Making in Human and Artificial Agents" in Wallach, W. & Franklin, S. (eds.), ''Topics in Cognitive Science, special issue on Cognitive Based Theories of Moral Decision Making.'' pp. 454–485 Cognitive Science Society. *Baars, B. J. & Franklin, S. (2009). "Consciousness is computational: The LIDA model of Global Workspace Theory". ''International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 1''(1), 23–32. *Franklin, S. (2007). "A Foundational Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence" in Goertzel B. & Wang, P. (eds.), ''Advances in Artificial General Intelligence: Concepts, Architectures and Algorithms'', Proceedings of the AGI Workshop 2006 (pp. 36–54). Amsterdam: IOS Press. *Franklin, S., & Ramamurthy, U. (2006). "Motivations, Values and Emotions: Three sides of the same coin". ''Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics'' (Vol. 128, pp. 41–48). Paris, France: Lund University Cognitive Studies. *Franklin, S. 2005. "A 'Consciousness' Based Architecture for a Functioning Mind" in ''Visions of Mind'', Davis, D. N. (ed.) Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing. *Franklin, S; Baars, B. J.; Ramamurthy, U. and Ventura, Matthew. 2005. "The role of consciousness in memory". ''Brains, Minds and Media'' 1: 1–38, pdf. *Baars, Bernard J. and Franklin, Stan. 2003. "How conscious experience and working memory interact". ''Trends in Cognitive Sciences'' 7: 166–172. *Franklin, Stan (2003), "IDA: A Conscious Artifact?" in ''Machine Consciousness'', Holland, Owen (ed.) (Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic).

References

External links

Official websiteCognitive Computing Research Group"How Minds Work" tutorial
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