Re: [visionlist] CFP: Cognitive Computation Journal: Celebrating the legacy of the late Professor John G Taylor

Dear all,

Like many of you, I was shocked to learn that John passed away. I will be writing an obituary for the next issue of AISB Quaterly, the newsletter for the UK-based AI-related community. Feel free to contact me if you would like to share a remembrance note, a memory, picture and the like.

He will be missed. Our affection goes to his family.

Kind regards,

Etienne

On 28 Mar 2012, at 09:25, Vassilis Cutsuridis wrote:

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Call for Papers: Cognitive Computation - Celebrating
the legacy of the late Professor John G Taylor

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* DESCRIPTION

The scope of the special issue is to celebrate the work of the late Professor John G Taylor. Professor Taylor began his career in 1956 as a theoretical physicist and has contributed many seminal papers and books to high energy physics, black holes, quantum gravity and string theory. He held positions in leading Universities in the UK, USA and Europe in

physics and mathematics. He created the Centre for Neural Networks at King's College, London, in 1990, and is still its Director. He was appointed Emeritus  Professor of Mathematics of London University in 1996. He was Guest Scientist at the Research Centre in Juelich,  Germany, 1996-8, working on brain imaging and data analysis. He has acted as consultant in Neural Networks to several companies. He is the Director of Research on Global Bond products and Tactical Asset Allocation for a financial investment company involved in time series prediction. He is presently European Editor-in-Chief of the journal Neural Networks and was President of the International Neural Network Society (1995) and the European Neural Network Society (1993/4). Since 2009, he is founding Chair of the Advisory Editorial Board for the  journal Cognitive Computation.

 

Prof. Taylor worked in the field of Neural Networks since 1969. He has contributed ever since to all aspects of neural

networks and cognitive computation including their applications to finance and robotics.

 

Specifically, research topics Prof. Taylor contributed to include but are not limited to:

-- Noisy nets, synapses and the pRAM chip

-- Dynamics of learning processes

-- Mathematical analysis of neural networks and their hardware implementations

-- Neural network models of perception, attention, learning and memory, decision making, motor control, cognitive control, observational learning, emotions, thinking, reasoning, conceptualization, knowledge representation, language and consciousness

-- Neural network applications to finance, robotics and brain imaging

 

The issue will consider original research articles, review articles, letters and commentaries from former and current students, junior and senior colleagues of Professor Taylor. All submitted articles should clearly state in what way their work is based on Prof. Taylor's previous research and how it extends it.



* EDITORS

The reviewing process will be supervised by guest Editors (Vassilis Cutsuridis and Amir Hussain), together with the editorial Board of the Cognitive Computation journal.


* DEADLINES

Deadlines are as follows:
 

-- Submission deadline: September 1, 2012

-- Review deadline: December 1, 2012

-- Author notification: December 2, 2012

-- Author's response: February 1, 2013

-- Publication by journal: ~April, 2013

Electronic submissions for the Cognitive Computation journal can be found under http://www.springer.com/biomed/neuroscience/journal/12559

Please indicate in your cover letter that your article is for the special issue "Celebrating the work of the late Prof. John G Taylor".


Kind regards,
Vassilis Cutsuridis and Amir Hussain

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