Ron Chrisley:  Prior Research Activity

PUBLICATIONS

To be added:
  • Turin and Birmingham workshops on Machine Consciousness
  • Invited talk, Philosophy Society, University of Liverpool, 24 February 2003.
  • Invited paper presented at ``Enactive consciousness: Perception, intersubjectyivity and empathy'', Seventh annual conference of the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology section of the British Psychological Society, St Anne's College, Oxford, 28-29 June 2003.
  • Invited paper for "Toward a Science of Consciousness 2003: Between Phenomenology and Neuroscience", Prague, 6-10 July 2003.
  • Invited paper presented to the Philosophy Society, University of Birmingham, and University of Sussex
MOST RECENTLY:
  • "In defense of physicalist accounts of consciousness". Invited talk, University of Kent at Canterbury Philosophy Society, Nov. 27th 2002.
  • `In defense of physicalist accounts of consciousness". Invited talk, Center for Theoretical Study, The Institute for Advanced Studies at Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Nov. 7th 2002
  • `More things than are dreamt of in your biology: Information processing in biologically-inspired robots', co-presented with Aaron Sloman at the EPSRC/BBSRC International Workshop on Biologically-Inspired Robotics: The Legacy of W.Grey Walter, 14-16 August 2002, HP Labs, Bristol, UK.
  • "Artificial emotion: An architectural analysis of affective states". Invited talk for the First International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Information Systems, Ain Shams University, Cairo, June 23-26, 2002.
  • "Can there be a seems/is distinction for seemings?". Invited talk, NNCS1: Toward a Nordic Network for Consciousness Studies, University of Skövde, May 3-4, 2002.
  • "Pre-objectivity in infants". Invited talk, Psychology Seminar series in the Department of Psychology at the University of Warwick, April 25th 2002.
  • "A conceptual overview of CogAff, or, What I've been doing since I've been away". Invited talk, COGS Seminar Series, University of Sussex, December 4th 2001.
  • "Learning rules for Bohmian quantum neural networks". Invited talk, Computing Quantum Systems” session, 5th International Conference on Computing Anticipatory Systems (Liege, Belgium, August 13-18, 2001)
  • "In defense of physicalist accounts of consciousness". Invited talk (also panel and session chair, and programme committee member), Toward A Science of Consciousness (University of Skövde, 8-12 August 2001). A precis of my lecture can be found in Rüdiger Vaas' review of the conference, "Consciousness and its place in nature", Journal of Consciousness Studies 9:2, pp. 75-76. The following files are also available:
  • Invited talk, "The prospects for a physicalist understanding of consciousness", to the Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology Consciousness Club, Functional Imaging Laboratory, 12 Queen Square, London, May 31st, 2001.
  • Participant in a television documentary entitled “Testing God”, produced by Mentorn for UK Channel 4.  Topic:  “God and Artificial Intelligence:  Can we naturalise spirituality?” (filmed March 15th, 2001; aired September 2001). Extract in Windows Media Player files:
SELECTED EXTERNAL TALKS AND PRESENTATIONS:
  • Invited speaker ("God, AI and Natural Spirituality"), Society of Ordained Scientists Consultation on "Artificial Intelligence", The College of St. George (Windsor Castle, 14–16 February 2001)
  • Invited speaker (“Fluid Architectures for Visual Perception”), Workshop on Representing the Structure of Visual Objects, Neural Information Processing Systems 2000 (Denver, 27 November–2 December 2000)
  • Invited speaker (“Bohmian Quantum Neural Networks”), Workshop on Quantum Neural Computing, Neural Information Processing Systems 2000 (Denver 27 November–2 December 2000)
  • Invited speaker (“Bohmian Quantum Neural Networks”), International Workshop on Quantum Neural Networks, Neuro-2000 (Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute, 19–21 January 2000)
  • Invited commentator/tutor, “Consciousness at the Millennium”, web-based course sponsored by the Center for Consciousness Studies (University of Arizona, Autumn 1999)
  • Invited Speaker (“Solving the Hard Problem by Conceptual Change”), Symposium on Consciousness Studies (University of Skövde, October 1999)
  • Speaker (“Transparent Computationalism”), International Conference and Workshop “New Trends in Cognitive Science 1999:  Computationalism --The Next Generation” (University of Vienna, 17–20 May 1999)
  • Speaker ("Non-compositional Representation in Connectionist Networks"), International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (University of Skövde, 2-4 September 1998)
  • Invited speaker ("Proto-concepts, Belief and Generality"), Conference on Non-conceptual Content (University of Hertfordshire, 1 November 1997)
  • Invited speaker ("Consciousness and Cognitive Science"), Workshop on the Varieties and Dimensions of Conscious Experience (University of Skövde, 10-12 October 1997)
  • Invited speaker ("Learning in non-superpositional quantum neural networks"), First IEE Colloquium on Quantum Computing:Theory, Applications and Implications (IEE London, 4 June 1997)
  • Invited lecture ("Non-Conceptual Infants: Intentionality Before Objectuality"), McDonnell-Pew Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (University of Oxford, 6 February 1997)
  • Invited panel member and commentator (Session: “Complexity”), Workshop on Autonomous Behaviour in Animals and Robots: Perspectives from Neuroscience, AI and Philosophy (University of Sussex, 24 January 1997)
  • Invited lecture (“The Pre-Conceptual Infant:The Development of Object Permanence”), Consciousness in the Natural World seminar series (University of Stirling, 12 December 1996)
  • Invited lecture (“The Pre-Conceptual Infant:  The Development of Object Permanence”), Intentionality and Embodiment seminar series (University of Dundee, 11 December 1996)
  • Invited lecture (“Horizontal and Vertical Non-Conceptual Content”), McDonell-Pew Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience (University of Oxford, 25 November 1996
  • Accepted poster presentation (“Individuating Concepts”), 18th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (University of California at San Diego, 12-15 July 1996)
  • Invited speaker (“The Ontological Status of Computational States”), SSKKII seminar series (University of Gothenburg, 1995)
  • Symposium chair and invited commentator (“The Mentality of Robots”), Joint Session of The Aritstotelian and Mind Societies (University of Dundee, 8-11 July 1994)
  • Invited commentator (Session:  “Connectionism”), Workshop on the Implicit/Explicit Distinction (University of Sussex, 23March 1994)
  • Invited lecturer ("Recent Developments in Connectionism" and "An Introduction to Artificial Life", University of Skövde, Sweden, May 1992)
  • Invited speaker ("Quantum Computation & Quantum Learning"), Workshop on Brain, Mind & Physics (Prague, September 1993)
  • Invited speaker ("The Ontological Status of Computational States"), G.H. von Wright's research seminar, (University of Helsinki, May 1992)

  • CONFERENCE ORGANISATION:
  • Programme Committee member for the 18th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-03) (Acapulco, Mexico, 9-15 August 2003)*
  • Organising Committee member for the International Workshop on Quantum Neural Networks, Neuro-2000 (Moscow Engineering and Physics Institute, 19-21 January 2000)
  • Submission reviewer for 1999 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (Stockholm, 31 July – 6 August 1999)*
  • Program Committee member and session chair (Session: Applications -- Medicine, Sequence Analysis, Environment), International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (University of Skövde, 2-4 September 1998)*
  • Program Committee member and session chair for the First International Conference on Bio-Computing and Emergent Computation (University of Skövde, 1-2 September 1997)*
  • Co-organiser and session chair for the First IEE Colloquium on Quantum Computing:  Theory, Applications and Implications (IEE London, 4 June 1997)*
  • Programme board member and invited speaker for International Conference on New Directions in Cognitive Science (Saariselkä, Lapland 4-9 August 1995)*
  • Programme board member for Workshop on Brain, Mind & Physics (Prague, 1992)
  • * denotes submission reviewer

    RESEARCH REVIEW ACTIVITIES:
  • Submission reviewer/referee for various journals including Synthese, Mind and Language, AI Review, IEEE Transactions, Connection Science, Minds and Machines, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Consciousness & Cognition, Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, AI & the Simulation of Behaviour Quarterly
  • Manuscript/proposal reviewer for various publishers, including Kluwer, Routledge, Blackwell, Oxford, Cambridge and The MIT Press
  • Grant reviewer and evaluator for: The Natural Environment Research Council (Directorate of Science & Technology), Biotechnology & Biological Sciences Research Council, University of Houston/NASA Technology Incubator
  • Scientific reviewer, Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Cognitive Science
  • Faculty appointment committee external referee, University of York (Canada) and University of Illinois
  • Behavioral and Brain Sciences Associate

  • OTHER ACTIVITIES:
  • Invited to write book reviews for The Times Literary Supplement, Mind, Endeavour and Minds & Machines.
  • Invited member of the Cognitive Science group, at the Research Strategy Workshop of the Conference of the Professors and Heads of Computing (University of Manchester, 6-7 January 2000)
  • Invited participant, various British Academy Conversaziones, London:
  • “The Age of Exploration”, 2 June 1994
  • “Discovery or Construction?:  The History of Scientific Knowledge”, 25 October 1997
  • “Creativity Through Courtship”, 27 October 2000
  • Attend and have regularly spoken at the Philosophy Society, Faculty Research Seminars, and various other internal research groups and seminar series
  • Attend and have spoken at the Philosophy Society's Annual Isle of Thorns retreat
  • Non-academic publications and appearances:  Since at the University of Sussex, these have been minor, but include a BBC Radio 3 appearance ("Hildegard 2000", 9 May 1998), invited contributions to WIRED, and various letters to the editor in broadsheet newspapers.


  • EARLY WORK:
    My prior research interests and experience include:
    • Intelligent tutoring systems with Derek Sleeman at Stanford University
    • Connectionist models of category learning with Mark Gluck at Stanford University
    • Knowledge-based systems for air traffic control at NASA-AMES
    • Neural networks for phoneme recognition with Teuvo Kohonen in Helsinki and at ATR in Kyoto
    • Philosophical foundations of computation with Brian Smith at Xerox PARC in Palo Alto
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    Last revised: Sunday, May 12th, 2002.