Noel Sharkey

Noel Sharkey

Noel Sharkey (born September 1948 ) is a British computer scientist and professor of artificial intelligence and robotics at the University of Sheffield . He became known to the public on the one hand through his appearances in the television shows Robot Wars and Techno Games and on the other hand through the debate he initiated in 2008 on ethics in robotics.

Sharkey conducts research in the fields of machine learning , cognition and artificial intelligence.

He is the founder and editor-in-chief of Connection Science , and editor of Artificial Intelligence Review and Robotics and Autonomous Systems . He also founded several robotics competitions around the world.

Works

• Noel E. Sharkey: Models of Cognition: A Review of Cognitive Science . Ablex Publishing, Norwood, NJ 1990, ISBN 978-0-89391-528-5 .
• Noel E. Sharkey: Advances in Cognitive Science . Prentice Hall, 1986, ISBN 978-0-470-20346-0 .

Book contributions

• The automation of warfare: what to learn from drones. In: Peter Strutynski (ed.): Killing by remote control. Combat drones in the global shadow war. Vienna: Promedia, 2013. pp. 151–169 ISBN 978-3-85371-366-2

Web links

• Website by Noel Sharkey at the University of Sheffield
• Interview at Telepolis: You can't punish a machine. December 21, 2008, accessed December 30, 2008 . 
• Videos by and about Noel Sharkey in the AV portal of the Technical Information Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ sueddeutsche.de: The robots are coming - Dear Tin Nanny. February 27, 2008, accessed May 26, 2015 . 
2. ^ Connection Science . ISSN  0954-0091 .
3. ^ Artificial Intelligence Review . ISSN  0269-2821 .
4. ^ Robotics and Autonomous Systems . ISSN  0921-8890 .