May 1-2 Workshop at the U of M Will Study Memory in Consciousness
For release: April 26, 2004
For press information, contact Gabrielle Maxey

The Institute for Intelligent Systems at the University of Memphis will sponsor a workshop May 1-2 at the FedEx Institute of Technology to explore the role of memory in consciousness. There is no fee to attend, but registration and acceptance are required.

Keynote speakers will include Harry P. Bahrick, research professor of psychology at Ohio Wesleyan University; Martin Conway of the University of Durham; Morris Moscovitch of the University of Toronto; and Lokendra Shastri of the International Computer Science Institute at the University of California, Berkeley.

Topics will include IDA, a "thinking" software system developed to manage and negotiate new assignments for Navy personnel, and a cognitive neuroscience perspective on memory and consciousness.

To register or to get more information, call 901-678-1341 or visit Web site www.cs.memphis.edu/~wrcm.

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