Please visit our new web site at: http://ccrg.cs.memphis.edu This website is no longer updated, please update your bookmarks. You will be directed to the new website in 10 seconds.... Welcome An autonomous agent senses and acts upon its environment in the service of its own agenda. An autonomous agent with human-like cognitive capabilities is called a cognitive agent. By a "conscious" software agent, we mean one designed within the constraints of Bernard Baars' Global Workspace Theory of Consciousness. The CSRG group revolves around the design and implementation of "conscious" software agents. Like the Roman god Janus, the "conscious" software projects have two faces, the science face and the engineering face. The science side fleshes out the global workspace theory of consciousness, while the engineering side explores architectural designs for software information agents that promise more flexible, more human-like intelligence within their domains. The fleshed out global workspace theory is yielding hopefully testable hypotheses about human cognition. The architectures and mechanisms that underlie consciousness and intelligence in humans can be expected to yield information agents that learn continuously, adapt readily to dynamic environments, and behave flexibly and intelligently when faced with novel and unexpected situations. Last Updated in February 2005.