Owen Holland (academic)
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Owen Holland(born 1947) is professor emeritus of cognitive robotics (Informatics)[1][2]in the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science at theUniversity of Sussex.[3]He was until recently a professor of computer science at theUniversity of Essex,England.[4]Previously, he has held faculty positions atCaltech,[5]University of Bielefeld,Starlaband theUniversity of the West of England.
Holland is best known for his work in biologically-inspiredrobotics,where he has contributed to the theory and practice ofcollective robotics,ant algorithmsandmachine consciousness,among other sub-fields.[6]Some of the projects he has been involved in have attracted attention from the media, notably theSlugbotproject, which aimed to produce a robotic predator capable of sustaining its energy levels from hunting and digestingslugs.[7][8]Holland is also known for recovering and restoring one ofGrey Walter'srobot 'tortoises'.[9][10]
For the last ten years he has mainly been interested in the prospects for building a conscious machine. In 2001 he was an organiser and session chair for one of the first symposia on machine consciousness,[11]and in 2003 he edited a special issue of the Journal of Consciousness Studies on the topic.[12]In 2004 he obtained the first major funding for a machine consciousness project which investigated whether a human-like robot with a self-model and a world-model might exhibit features characteristic of consciousness.[13]The robot, CRONOS, was further developed in a European project ECCEROBOT led by Holland, which ran from 2009 – 2011.[14]Holland has been an active contributor to most of the machine consciousness symposia held in the last decade, and serves on the editorial board of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness.[15]
References
[edit]- ^"Owen Holland".routledgetextbooks.Retrieved18 August2023.
- ^"Owen Holland | University of Sussex, Brighton | School of Engineering and Informatics | ResearchGate".ResearchGate.Retrieved7 March2018.
- ^"University of Sussex: Prof Owen Holland".sussex.ac.uk.Retrieved13 August2023.
- ^"Biography, University of Essex".2006. Archived fromthe originalon 27 January 2010.Retrieved19 July2023.
- ^"Microsystems Research Laboratory".micro.caltech.edu.Archived fromthe originalon 2 May 1999.Retrieved13 August2023.
- ^Owen Holland and David McFarland (2001).Artificial Ethology.Oxford University Press.ISBN0-19-851057-8.
- ^Ward, Mark (14 September 2001)."Robot slugkiller ready to roll".BBC News.Retrieved19 July2023.
- ^Knapp, Louise (8 October 2001)."SlugBot: Enemy of Slugs".Wired.Retrieved19 July2023.
- ^"Grey Walter and his tortoises".bristol.ac.uk.22 July 2008.Retrieved13 August2023.
- ^O'Connell, Sanjida (7 December 2000)."What the tortoise taught us".The Guardian.Retrieved13 August2023.
- ^"Banbury Center Workshop Series: Can a machine be conscious?".May 2001.Retrieved5 June2023.
- ^Owen Holland, ed. (2003).Machine Consciousness.Imprint Academic.ISBN9780907845249.Retrieved18 May2023.
- ^"EPSRC Grants on the Web".Retrieved18 May2023.
- ^"ECCEROBOT".Retrieved18 May2023.
- ^"Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Consciousness, Editorial Board".Retrieved18 May2023.
External links
[edit]- Owen Holland's research page at the University of Essex
- Faculty at the Sackler Centre for Consciousness Science
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