Dr. Stevan Harnad

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Symbol grounding problem , Scholarpedia, 2(7):2373. (2007)

Stevan Harnad is a cognitive scientist, born in Budapest, Hungary. He obtained his undergraduate (1967) and first graduate degree (1969) in psychology at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. From there he went to Princeton University, United States, where he obtained degrees in psychology (M.A 1971; PhD 1991). 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, UK. He is also an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.

Professor Harnad was the founder and editor (1978-2003) of Behavioral and Brain Sciences, an important journal for the cognitive sciences published by Cambridge University Press. Furthermore he served as editor or member of the editorial board for numerous journals, among them Psycholoqy, PSYCHE, Consciousness and Cognition, Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence and Artificial Life. He was also the founder and moderator of the American Scientist Open Access Forum (since 1998).

Stevan Harnad's research focuses on categorization, communication, cognition and consciousness. He has contributed substantially to the Symbol Grounding Problem, a major problem in cognitive science and artificial intelligence research. He is also an advocate for Open Access to Research.

For more information, visit http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/ and http://www.crsc.uqam.ca/.

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