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Members Leading and managing
the IDA project from its inception, Stan bears major responsibility for it.
His primary research interest is in how minds work. The IDA project that
allows the modeling of consciousness and cognition in software agents within
a real-world domain is perfect for his needs. Stan typically teaches courses
on artificial intelligence and on autonomous agents. Contact: stan.franklin@memphis.edu CSRG projects flesh out
Baar's Global Workspace theory through computer
simulations. Bernie Baars is a cognitive
psychologist with experimental publications focused on language and speech
production. His major research focus has been on the cognitive neuroscience
of conscious functions. His 1988 book A Cognitive Theory of Consciousness
(NY: Cambridge University Press) is still the most detailed scientific
examination of this notoriously difficult problem. Contact: baars@nsi.edu Dr.
Uma Ramamurthy Uma is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute for Intelligent Systems. Her research interests include modeling perception, conceptual learning, self and memory systems in cognitive software agents. Contact: urmmrthy@memphis.edu Dr. Aregahegn Negatu Aregahegn has been active member of the IDA project since
inception. His research focus and primary responsibility had been the design
and/or implementation of IDA's sophisticated and
integrated decision making mechanisms: action selection, expectation, automatization, and non-routine problem solving. Besides
furthering his work on these mechanisms his future research interest includes
modeling of procedural learning for cognitive software agents. Contact: asnegatu@memphis.edu Dr.
Glenn Colman Glenn has a PhD in AI,
but has spent most of his working career as a self employed software
engineer. He is currently working on the LIDA project occasionally in Contact: glenncolman@yahoo.co.nz Dr. F. G. Patterson, Jr. F. G. Patterson, Jr., is on a special assignment from the NASA HQ Office of the Chief Engineer. He is working as a Visiting Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Computer Science at the Institute for Intelligent Systems at the FedEx Institute of Technology. With his background in systems theory, computer science, mathematics, and philosophy, he is working with Stan Franklin on his research in "conscious" software agents. Contact: csrg.fgp@drfgp2.us
David
Friedlander David Friedlander is
working with Dr. Stan Franklin to apply the IDA model to computer vision. The
work is targeted towards a “Google for imagery,” and represents a
new approach for content-based image retrieval. Mr. Friedlander’s
primary research interest is Artificial Intelligence. He is a Technical
Associate at SET Corporation. Lee has been an active
part of the CMattie project from early in its
inception and has transitioned into the IDA project. His role for IDA will be
an extension of his work on the emotional mechanism in CMattie.
Lee sees emotions as evaluation mechanisms for intelligent agents. Contact: t-mccauley@memphis.edu Contact: sdmello@msci.memphis.edu Scott Brown Scott is working on his Master's Degree in Computer Science. His research interests include computational models of cognition, the self and perceptual automization. He has been working as a professional software engineer since 1998 and is currently employed with Electracash, Inc. Contact: scott@rsbrown.net Kevin Marker Kevin is working on his Undergraduate
Degree in Computer Science. His
current project is an online tutorial entitled How Minds Work.
Contact: kmarker@memphis.edu
Past Members Ramesh Aitipamula Contact: raitipml@memphis.edu Dr. Ashraf Anwar Ashraf implemented Kanerva’s
Sparse Distributed Memory, which serves as the declarative memory module in both
CMattie and IDA. Contact: aanwnr@midsouth.rr.com Igor
is working on his PhD in Computer Science. His research interests include
consciousness, neural networks, and Freeman's K-sets. Contact: bileon@hotmail.com Dr.
Myles Bogner Myles had primary responsibility for the
design and implementation of CMattie's consciousness
module. That module formed coalitions of codelets,
chose the most relevant coalition, and broadcast it to all the other codelets. Myles' consciousness module later became an
integral part of IDA. He is now Asynchrony Solution's VP of Research and
Development and the chief architect of Envoke. Contact: dr.myles.bogner@asolutions.com Deirdre
Bolden Deirdre has a BBA in
MIS. She is currently working on her MSBA (Masters of Science Business
Administration) Degree with a concentration in MIS.. Contact: dlbolden@memphis.edu Vani Vamsi Priya
Chitupolu Contact: vanivamsipriya@memphis.edu Scott Dodson Contact: sldodson@fedex.com Art Graesser
is an authority in cognitive science, text & discourse processing, computational
linguistics, and artificial intelligence. He has developed computer software
on question answering, intelligent tutoring, and language processing.
Art typically teaches graduate courses in cognitive science and undergraduate
courses in research methods in psychology. Contact: a-graesser@memphis.edu Dr. Arpad Kelemen Primary among Arpad’s contributions to the IDA project was his
design and implementation of IDA’s constraint
satisfaction module. He is now an Assistant Professor In the Department of
Computer and Information Science at The University of Mississippi Contact: kelemen@cs.olemiss.edu Ravikumar Kondadadi Contact: ravi@htinc.com Sarveshwar Reddy Kuncha Contact: skuncha@memphis.edu Dr.
Chip Ordman Chip brings in his
expertise in communication scheduling and distributed computing to IDA. His
teaching has been in database and distributed processing. His research has been
in networks and in problems of communication between processes,
including scheduling problems. Contact: edward@ordman.net Sita Pulavarti Sita is working on her Master's Degree in Computer
Science. She has recently joined us as a research assistant. Contact : spulavrt@memphis.edu
Ramakrishna Rama
will be graduating with his Master’s Degree in Computer Science in Fall
2003. He has recently joined us as a research assistant for the Procedural
Learning group which is part of the CSRG. Contact: rgundpnn@memphis.edu Yongmin Shan Yongmin Shan, a faculty member in computer science at Contact: Shanym@sxu.edu.cn Contact: stoliara@msci.memphis.edu Matthew Ventura Matthew is a PhD
student in Cognitive Experimental Psychology whose research interests include
natural language processing, knowledge representation and organization, and
information retrieval. Contact: mventura@memphis.edu Inactive Members Dr. Hongjun Song Dr. Zhaohua Zhang Sri Satish Ambati Irina Makkaveeva Gurumoorthy Nagasubramanian Brent Olde Yun Wan |
