Stevan Harnad
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Professor Stevan Harnad (Hernád István, Hesslein István) is a cognitive scientist.
He was born in Budapest, Hungary. He did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University's Department of Psychology. He is currently Canada Research Chair in Cognitive Science at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and Professor of Cognitive Science at the University of Southampton. He is also an External Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. His research is on categorisation[1], communication[2], cognition[3] and consciousness[4].
Harnad was the founder and editor (1978-2003) of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a journal published by Cambridge University Press, Psycoloquy, an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association, and CogPrints, an electronic preprint archive in the cognitive sciences hosted by University of Southampton. He was also the founder and moderator of the American Scientist Open Access Forum[5] (since 1998) and is an active promoter of Open Access.
[edit] References
- ^ Harnad, S. (2005). To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition is Categorization.
- ^ Cangelosi, Angelo and Harnad, Stevan (2001). The adaptive advantage of symbolic theft over sensorimotor toil: Grounding language in perceptual categories.
- ^ Harnad, S. (2006). The Annotation Game: On Turing (1950) on Computing, Machinery, and Intelligence.
- ^ Harnad, S. and Scherzer, P. (2007). First, Scale Up to the Robotic Turing Test, Then Worry About Feeling. In: Proceedings of AAAI 2007 Fall Symposium on AI and Consciousness, November 8–11, 2007, Washington DC.
- ^ Archive of American Scientist Open Access Forum
[edit] External links
- Harnad E-Print Archive and Psycoloquy and BBS Journal Archives, University of Southampton
- Stevan Harnad, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
- Open Access Archivangelism Blog, Stevan Harnad's blog on Open Access
- UQAM eprint server, The UQAM open archive with the collaboration of Stevan Harnad
- Interview by Richard Poynder
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