Professor Igor Aleksander

Department of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College
Email: i.aleksander@ic.ac.uk
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Igor Aleksander has researched Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks and Artificial Consciousness for the last 40 years. His recent work lies in the area of Artificial Visual Awareness. He has published over 200 papers in these fields and 11 books including the most recent: "Impossible Minds" published by Imperial College Press, 1996. In 1998 he was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering.
In the 1980s he was responsible for the design of the world's first neural pattern recognition system (the WISARD), and in 1991 he laid down the principles for the first neural vision machine which stores visual experience, has mental imagery, plans and dreams (the MAGNUS). He is currently head of the Neural Systems Laboratory in the Electrical Engineering Department of Imperial College, and a Pro-Rector for the College.

Research Interests: Neuromodelling of the Visual system in primates and the visuo-verbal system in humans; Models of the effect of anaesthetics on awareness;
The meaning of artificial consciousness; Robots with a representation of 'self'
How does it feel? models of mental deficits.