Stan Franklin

Interdisciplinary Research Professor, University of Memphis

Stan Franklin teaches courses on artificial intelligence and on autonomous agents at the University of Memphis. He is the W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor at the University of Memphis, a winner of the Eminent Faculty Award, a FedEx Institute of Technology founding fellow, and Director of the Institute for Intelligent Systems.

His research is motivated by wanting to know how minds work: human minds, animal minds and, particularly, artificial minds. For some years he has worked on "conscious" software agents - autonomous agents modeling a psychological theory of consciousness. These agents model human and animal cognition and provide testable hypotheses for cognitive scientists and neuroscientists. This endeavor, funded by the US Navy, has been the subject of some sixty papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings. His graduate degrees are from UCLA, his undergraduate degree from the University of Memphis.

Dr. Franklin's book Artificial Minds, published in 1995 by MIT Press and translated into Japanese and Portuguese, provides a framework for the contemporary interdisciplinary matrix of artificial intelligence, cognitive science, cognitive neuroscience, artificial neural networks, artificial life, and robotics. He is a scientific advisor for Novamente LLC, a company that creates artificial agents for online virtual worlds.

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AGI-08: Catalyzing the Coming AGI Renaissance

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AGIRI Workshop 2006, What Are the Bottlenecks and How Soon to AGI?
AGIRI Workshop 2006, A Cognitive Theory of Everything: The LIDA Technology as an Artificial General Intelligence