Welcome to Stan Franklin's Home Page

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Artificial Minds is available in paperback!
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
And in Japanese!!
 
And in Portuguese!!

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Contact Information

• Stan Franklin
• W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor
• Cognitive Computing Research Group
• Department of Computer Science
• Institute for Intelligent Systems
• The University of Memphis
• Memphis, TN 38152
• USA
• Phone: (901) 678-1341
• Fax: (901) 678-5129
• Email: franklin AT memphis DOT edu

Events

• Consciousness, Brain Rhythms, and the Action-Perception Cycle, May 3-4, 2008, Memphis TN
• Artificial General Intelligence (AGI-08) - March 1-3 - Memphis TN - Chair - Organizing Committee
• AI and Consciousness - AAAI Fall Symposium 2007 - November 8-11 - Washington DC Program Committee
• IJCNN 2007 - International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, August 12-17, Orlando, FL Plenary Speaker
• KES-AMSTA-2007  - 1st International Symposium on Agents and Multi-agent Systems – Technologies and Applications
  Wroclaw, Poland, 17 & 18 May 2007, Program Committee
• (Multi-)Agent Systems in E-Business: Concepts, Technologies and Applications - MASeB’2006, Hong Kong
  December 18-22. Program committee
• AMIA 2006 – Biomedical and Health Informatics, Washington DC, November 11-15, Plenary Speaker
• Agent-Based Computing: Workshop III — ABC 2006, Wisla, Poland, November 6-10. Program Committee
• CogRIC'06 Cognitive Robotics, Intelligence and Control, Windsor, England, UK August 6-18. Program Committee
• THE NINTH WORLD CONFERENCE ON INTEGRATED DESIGN & PROCESS TECHNOLOGY, June 25-30, 2006, San Diego, California
• AGIRI Workshop 2006: Transitioning from Narrow AI to Artificial General Intelligence, Bethesda, MD, May 20-21, 2006, Keynote Address
• Cognitive Systems: Human Cognitive Models in System Design, Santa Fe, New Mexico / June 29th - July 1st, 2004, Keynote Address
• Workshop on the Role of Consciousness in Memory, FedEx Institute, Memphis, TN, USA, May 1st and 2nd 2004. Sponsored by the Institute for Intelligent Systems and the FedEx Instutute for Technology. Local chair and host.
• European Workshop on MACHINE CONSCIOUSNESS: COMPLEXITY ISSUES, Torino, Italy, September 29th to October 1st, 2003
• ASSC7 Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness Memphis, TN, USA, May 30th through June 2rd, 2003. Host and Speaker
• CAN A MACHINE BE CONSCIOUS? The Banbury Center of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, May13-16, 2001, by invitation only
• NSF/DARPA Workshop on Development and Learning (WDL), held at Michigan State University, April 2000. by invitation only.

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Research Interests

• Cognitive Modeling using the IDA and LIDA Models
• Control of Autonomous Agents
• Cognitive Agents Architecture and Theory (CAAT)
• "Conscious" Software Agents
• Intelligent Tutoring Systems (old)
• General Purpose Neurocomputing (back burner)
• Computability Theory of Neural Networks (very old)
• Catagorical Topology (ancient)

• LIDA-AV: Cognitive Robotics for Autonomous Vehicles
• Cognitive Computing Research Group (Cognitive Modeling using the IDA Model)
• "Conscious" Mattie (CMattie) Project
• Intelligent Distribution Agent (IDA) Project
• AutoTutor Project

Teaching

• Artificial Intelligence--COMP 7/8720--Spring, 2007
• Introduction to Artificial Intelligence--COMP 4/6720--Fall, 2006
• Cognitive Science Seminar--Computational Models of Mind--COMP/PSYC 7/8514--Fall, 2004
• Control of Autonomous Agents-- COMP 7/8760--Fall, 2004
• Artificial Intelligence--COMP 7/8720--Spring, 2004
• Cognitive Science Seminar--The IDA Model--COMP/PSYC 7/8514--Spring, 2003

Biographical Information

• Degree History
• Professional Experience
• Honors
• Editing
• Publications (2004 and earlier)
• Recent Publications
• Media Coverage (quite old)
• Doctoral Students