Jordi Vallverdú

Jordi Vallverdú, Ph.D., M.Sci., B.Mus, B.Phil, is Tenure Professor at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (Catalonia, Spain), where he teaches Philosophy and History of Science and Computing. His research is dedicated to the epistemological, cognitive and ethical aspects of Philosophy of Computing and Science and AI. He is Editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Synthetic Emotions (IJSE). He has written several books as author or editor: (2009) Handbook of Research on Synthetic Emotions and Sociable Robotics: New Applications in Affective Computing and Artificial Intelligence, (2010) Thinking Machines and the Philosophy of Computer Science: Concepts and Principles, (2012) Creating Synthetic Emotions Through Technological and Robotic Advancements, (2015) Bayesian vs. Frequentist Statistics. In 2011 he won a prestigious Japanese JSPS fellowship to make his research on HRI interfaces at Kyoto University. He was keynote at ECAP09 (TUM, München, Germany), EBICC2012 (UNESP, Brazil) and SLACTIONS 2013 (Portugal).

Publications

Advanced Research on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
Advanced Research on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures
Jordi Vallverdú, Manuel Mazzara, Max Talanov, Salvatore Distefano, Robert Lowe. © 2017. 297 pages.
There are many different approaches to understanding human consciousness. By conducting research to better understand various biological mechanisms, these can be redefined and...