Active components of classical working memory are conscious, but traditional theory does
not account for this fact. Global Workspace theory suggests that consciousness is needed to …

Memory may be broadly regarded as information gained from past experience that is
available in the service of ongoing and future adaptive behavior. The biological …

Life on the Screen is a book not about computers, but about people and how computers are
causing us to reevaluate our identities in the age of the Internet. We are using life on the …

Not many in the humanities are listening to the brain scientists, however. Such a mechanistic
view of the human imagination seems cold; it robs the world's great literature of genius …

Computers are already approving financial transactions, controlling electrical supplies, and
driving trains. Soon, service robots will be taking care of the elderly in their homes, and …

The advent of software agents gave rise to much discussion of just what such an agent is,
and of how they differ from programs in general. Here we propose a formal definition of an …

This research investigates the meaning of “human-computer relationship” and presents
techniques for constructing, maintaining, and evaluating such relationships, based on …

Arti cial intelligence researchers attempting to create engaging, apparently living creatures
may nd important insight in the work of artists who have explored the idea of believable …

ALLIANCE is a software architecture that facilitates the fault tolerant cooperative control of
teams of heterogeneous mobile robots performing missions composed of loosely coupled …

Building trust with users is crucial in a wide range of applications, such as financial
transactions, and some minimal degree of trust is required in all applications to even initiate …