Dr Will Browne

BEng (Bath, UK), MSc (Cardiff, UK), EngD (Cardiff, UK), CEng (MIMechE)

Position	Senior Lecturer
Research Interests	Applied Cognitive Systems: Cognitive Robotics, Learning Classifier Systems (evolutionary computation) and Modern Heuristics.
Office	CO341 - Postal Address
Phone	+64 4 463 5233 x8489
Email	Will.Browne@ecs.vuw.ac.nz

Teaching

Teaching in 2010: ECEN 202 ECEN 315 ECEN 425 ECEN 430 ECSE 425 ECSE 430

Biography

Will's main area of research is Applied Cognitive Systems. Essentially, how to use inspiration from natural intelligence to enable computers/machines/robots to behave usefully. This includes: Cognitive Robotics, Learning Classifier Systems (a branch of evolutionary computation) and Modern Heuristics for industrial application. Blue skies research includes analogues of emotions, abstraction, memory systems, %u2018small worlds%u2019 phenomenon, confusion/dissonance and machine consciousness.