Stan Franklin

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{{Short description|American scientist (1931–2023)}}
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'''Stan Franklin''' (August 14, 1931 – January 23, 2023)<ref>{{cite web |title=Dr. Stan Franklin dies: Memphis genius pioneered 'Artificial Intelligence' |url=https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/news/local/2023/01/26/stan-franklin-obit-dies-memphis-artificial-intelligence-institute-for-intelligent-systems/69843866007/}}</ref> was an American scientist. He was the W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor at the [[University of Memphis]] in [[Memphis, Tennessee]], and co-director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems.<ref name="co-d">{{Cite web |last=Shepard |first=Scott |date=February 1, 2004 |title=U of M seeks $50 million NSF grant |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/stories/2004/02/02/story3.html |access-date=2023-07-08 |website=www.bizjournals.com}}</ref> He is the author of ''[[Artificial Minds]]'', ([[MIT Press]], 1995)<ref name="arty1">{{cite book | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k-M8B5rzokIC&dq=%22Stan+Franklin%22+%22artificial+minds%22&pg=PR6 | title=Machine Consciousness | isbn=9780907845249 | last1=Holland | first1=Owen | year=2003 | publisher=Imprint Academic }}</ref> and the developer of IDA, and its successor [[LIDA (cognitive architecture)|LIDA]], which are both computational implementations of [[global workspace theory]]. He is the founder of the Cognitive Computing Research Group at the [[University of Memphis]].

==Life and work==
Franklin was born in Memphis, Tennessee in 1931. His graduate degrees are from [[UCLA]], and his undergraduate degree is from the University of Memphis. He has been on the faculties of the [[University of Florida]], the [[Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur]], [[Carnegie Mellon University]], and the University of Memphis.

He was formerly a [[mathematician]], who introduced the concept of [[sequential space]]s. He then became first a [[computer scientist]] and then a [[cognitive science|cognitive scientist]], Franklin has worked for some years on "conscious" software agents, which model the [[Global Workspace Theory|global workspace theory of consciousness]]. These autonomous agents computationally model human and animal cognition, and provide testable hypotheses for cognitive scientists and [[neuroscientist]]s. This work was funded by the [[United States Navy]] and has been the subject of numerous papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings.

==Publications==
Franklin has authored or co-authored numerous academic papers as well as a book entitled ''Artificial Minds'' published by MIT Press, which was a primary selection of the Library of Science book club, and has been translated into Japanese and Portuguese.

*{{cite journal|first1=Stan|last1=Franklin|first2=Tamas|last2=Madl|first3=Steve|last3=Strain|first4=Usef|last4=Faghihi|title=A LIDA cognitive model tutorial|url=https://zenodo.org/record/850096|journal=Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures|pages=105–130|volume=16|doi=10.1016/j.bica.2016.04.003|first5=Daqi|last5=Dong|first6=Sean|last6=Kugele|first7=Javier|last7=Snaider|first8=Pulin|last8=Agrawal|first9=Sheng|last9=Chen|year=2016}}
*Franklin, S., Strain, S., Snaider, J., McCall, R., & Faghihi, U. (2012)." Global Workspace Theory, its LIDA Model and the Underlying Neuroscience". ''Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 1'', 32–43, {{doi|10.1016/j.bica.2012.04.001}}
*D'Mello, Sidney K., & Franklin, S. (2011). "A Cognitive Model's View of Animal Cognition". ''Current Zoology, 54''(4), 499–512.
*Wallach, W.; Franklin, S.; & Allen, C. (2010). "A Conceptual and Computational Model of Moral Decision Making in Human and Artificial Agents" in Wallach, W. & Franklin, S. (eds.), ''Topics in Cognitive Science, special issue on Cognitive Based Theories of Moral Decision Making.'' pp. 454–485 Cognitive Science Society.
*Baars, B. J. & Franklin, S. (2009). "Consciousness is computational: The LIDA model of Global Workspace Theory". ''International Journal of Machine Consciousness, 1''(1), 23–32.
*Franklin, S. (2007). "A Foundational Architecture for Artificial General Intelligence" in Goertzel B. & Wang, P. (eds.), ''Advances in Artificial General Intelligence: Concepts, Architectures and Algorithms'', Proceedings of the AGI Workshop 2006 (pp. 36–54). Amsterdam: IOS Press.
*Franklin, S., & Ramamurthy, U. (2006). "Motivations, Values and Emotions: Three sides of the same coin". ''Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics'' (Vol. 128, pp. 41–48). Paris, France: Lund University Cognitive Studies.
*Franklin, S. 2005. "A 'Consciousness' Based Architecture for a Functioning Mind" in ''Visions of Mind'', Davis, D. N. (ed.) Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing.
*Franklin, S; Baars, B. J.; Ramamurthy, U. and Ventura, Matthew. 2005. "The role of consciousness in memory". ''Brains, Minds and Media'' 1: 1–38, pdf.
*Baars, Bernard J. and Franklin, Stan. 2003. "How conscious experience and working memory interact". ''Trends in Cognitive Sciences'' 7: 166–172.
*Franklin, Stan (2003), "IDA: A Conscious Artifact?" in ''Machine Consciousness'', Holland, Owen (ed.) (Exeter, UK: Imprint Academic).

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==External links==
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*[http://ccrg.cs.memphis.edu Cognitive Computing Research Group]
*[http://ccrg.cs.memphis.edu/tutorial/ "How Minds Work" tutorial]

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