School of Computer Science
University of Birmingham

John A. Barnden (Professor of AI)

I am a Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the School of Computer Science.

Seeing/Contacting Me

Please consult my timetable. Please note that I am on SABBATICAL until January 2010. For contact methods during the sabbatical please see the timetable.


PHONE: (+44) 121-414-3816
FAX:   (+44) 121-414-4281

ADDRESS:

School of Computer Science
The University of Birmingham
Edgbaston
Birmingham B15 2TT
U.K.

I am in room 136.

Courier deliveries::: specify phone number (+44) 121-414-4773.

Opportunities for Projects: PhD, MSc and Undergraduate

I would welcome additional MSc and PhD students (from January 2010 in the MSc case). I can offer numerous types of project, mainly in various areas of Artificial Intelligence. I will not be available for undergraduate projects until the 2010/11 academic year.

Research

My research is within Artificial Intelligence and has the following main aspects:

understanding metaphorical utterances
representing and reasoning about mental states of agents

The work mainly uses symbolic AI techniques.
See the separate ATT-Meta project page for a description.

Selected Publications

virtual drama, affect and metaphor
metaphor (except as related to edrama, mental states or connectionism)
mental states and metaphor
mental states (except as related to metaphor or connectionism)
connectionism (except as related to mental states, analogy, or case-based reasoning)
connectionism and mental states.
connectionism and analogy/case-based reasoning

Metaphor-of-Mind Databank

I have been building a databank of examples of metaphors of mind in real text and speech. This databank is a product of the ATT-Meta project.

Degrees and Positions

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Maintained by J.A.Barnden@cs.bham.ac.uk
Last update: 5sep09