Igor Aleksander

Igor Aleksander (born January 26, 1937 in Zagreb ) is a British computer scientist and cognitive scientist .

Aleksander went to school in Italy and studied at the University of Witwatersrand and received his doctorate from Queen Mary College, University of London in 1966 (Decimal array logic). In 1968 he became a Reader in Electronics at the University of Kent and in 1974 Professor at Brunel University . From 1984 he was a professor at Imperial College London , where he was head of the faculty for electrical engineering from 1988 until his retirement in 2002, and Gabor was professor for neural systems engineering. In 1997 he was Pro-Rector for External Relations at the University.

In the early 1980s, he designed an early pattern recognition neural network (WISARD) that was also commercialized. He designed neural models of the visual perception system of monkeys (with application in robotics ) and dealt with consciousness and philosophical questions in artificial intelligence (Artificial Consciousness).

He is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering .

Fonts

• Introduction to logic circuit theory, London: Harrap 1970
• Microcircuit learning computers, London: Mills & Boon Monographs and Technical Library 1971
• with F.Keith Hanna: Automata Theory: An Engineering Approach, New York: Crane Russak, London: Edward Arnold 1975
• Published by: Artificial vision for robots, London: Kogan Page 1983
• with Piers Burnett: The robots are coming: Will man be reinvented ?, Birkhäuser 1984 (English original: Reinventing man: the robot becomes reality, London: Kogan Page 1983)
• Published by: Advanced digital information systems, Prentice Hall 1985
• with Henri Farreny, Malik Ghallab: Decision and Intelligence, Springer 1986
• with Piers Burnett: Thinking machines: a search for artificial intelligence, Oxford UP 1987
• Published by: Neural computing architectures: the design of brain-like machines, London 1989
• Editor with John Taylor: Artificial neural networks, 2 volumes, North Holland 1992 (International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN) 1992)
• with Helen Morton: An introduction to neural computing, Chapman and Hall 1990, 2nd edition International Thomson Computer Press 1995
• Impossible Minds: My neurons, My Consciousness, Imperial College Press 1996, 2nd edition 2015
• How to Build a Mind, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2000
• The World in My Mind, My Mind In The World: Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in Humans, Animals and Machines, Imprint Academic, 2005
• Machine Consciousness , Scholarpedia 2008
• with Helen Morton: Aristotle's Laptop: the discovery of our informational mind, World Scientific 2012

Web links

• Website at Imperial College