Igor Aleksander

Name: Igor Aleksander

Born: 1937

Computer-related contributions

• Emeritus professor of Neural Systems Engineering in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Imperial College London.
• He worked in artificial intelligence and neural networks and designed the world's first neural pattern recognition system in the 1980s.

Significant publications

• Impossible Minds: My neurons, My Consciousness (1996).
• How to Build a Mind (2000).
• The World in My Mind, My Mind In The World (2005).

Honors and awards

• Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (1988).