Author biographies

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(2010), "Author biographies", Kybernetes, Vol. 39 No. 3. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2010.06739cae.001

Author biographies

Article Type: Author biographies From: Kybernetes, Volume 39, Issue 3

Mark Bishop is a Professor of Cognitive Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London and Chair (elect) of the AISB. His research is in the field of cognitive computing: its theory – where his interests centre on the foundations of stochastic diffusion processes; its application – he has worked on industrial problems in autonomous robotics, neural networks and colour; and its philosophical foundations – he has developed a novel argument against the possibility of machine consciousness. Together with John Preston, Mark has Co-edited a critique of John Searle’s arguments against machine intelligence, Views into the Chinese Room (published by Oxford University Press in 2002).

Margaret Boden is a Research Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Sussex. She is a Member of the Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the British Academy. In 2002, she was awarded an OBE “for services to cognitive science.” Her latest books are The Creative Mind: Myths and Mechanisms and Mind as Machine: A History of Cognitive Science.

Selmer Bringsjord is the Author of the critically acclaimed What Robots Can & Can’t Be (published by Kluwer in 1992), concerned with the future of attempts to create robots that behave as humans. His most recent book is Superminds: People Harness Hyper-computation, and More (published by Kluwer in 2003). Previously to this, he produced, with Dave Ferrucci, Artificial Intelligence and Literary Creativity: Inside the Mind of Brutus, A Storytelling Machine, published by Erlbaum. He is also the Author of Abortion: A Dialogue, published by Hackett.

Luciano Floridi joined the Oxford Faculty of Philosophy in 1990 and the Department of Computer Science in 1999. Since 2007, he holds the Research Chair in Philosophy of Information at the University of Hertfordshire. In 2006, he was elected President of the International Association for Computing and Philosophy. Luciano is the first philosopher to have been elected Gauss Professor by the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. He has also been awarded the American Philosophical Association BARWISE Prize. Most recently, Luciano was awarded the UNESCO Chair in Information and Computer Ethics.

Andrew Hodges was born in London in 1949. Since 1972, he has been working on the theory of twistors – the new approach to the problems of fundamental physics pioneered by the mathematician Roger Penrose. His interest in the mysterious figure of Alan Turing developed partly from his mathematical background, but also from his participation in the gay liberation movement of the 1970s. In 1977, he decided only a full-length biography of Turing could do justice to the issues involved, and this, his first full-length book, appeared in 1983. He has since returned to mathematics and is a Research Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford University.

Huma Shah is the Coordinating Member of the Turing100 in 2012 Committee. Huma judged in the 2005 Chatterbox Challenge and organised Turing tests in the 2006 and 2008 Loebner Prize events. Huma is interested in interdisciplinary projects developing artificial conversational systems for such competitions and sees value in the collateral advances that can emerge from this research; passing the Turing test is a step on the road to “true AI”.

Kevin Warwick is a Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, where he carries out research in artificial intelligence, control, robotics and biomedical engineering. He has been awarded higher doctorates (DScs) both by Imperial College and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague. Kevin was presented with The Future of Health Technology Award from MIT (USA), and was made an Honorary Member of the Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg. He has also received The IEE Achievement Medal in 2004 and the IET Mountbatten Medal in 2008. In 2000, Kevin presented the Royal Institution Christmas Lectures, entitled The Rise of The Robots. He has judged Turing tests in two Loebner Prize events, at the Science Museum in 2001 and at UCL in 2006. Kevin is a Chair of the Turing100 in 2012 Committee.

Michael Wheeler is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Stirling. He was previously Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Dundee and before that worked at Christ Church Oxford. Michael is interested in the philosophy of science (especially cognitive science, psychology, biology, artificial intelligence and artificial life) and philosophy of mind. He also works on Descartes, on Heidegger, and on environmental philosophy. Although his style of argument is firmly analytic, he is keen to explore philosophy at the interface between the analytic and the continental traditions. Michael is the author of Reconstructing the Cognitive World: The Next Step (published by MIT Press in 2005).