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It would be catastrophic to become a nation of technically competent people who have lost the ability to think critically, to examine themselves, and to respect the humanity and diversity of others.
       — Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education

Bruce J. MacLennan

Associate Professor

Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science 

University of Tennessee

Directory

• Ways to contact me
• Research
• Teaching
• Professional Activities
  
• Links

Ways to contact me

Email: MacLennan@utk.edu

WWW: http://web.eecs.utk.edu/~mclennan/ [sic]

Phone: (865) 974-3461

Fax: (865) 974-5483

US Mail:

Bruce J. MacLennan
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
The University of Tennessee
550 Min Kao EECS Bldg.
Knoxville, TN 37996

Research

Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation

Neural Information Processing

Connectionist Knowledge Representation

Emergent Computation Project

Affiliated Faculty, UTK Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning

Teaching

• COSC 311 (Spring ‘12) 
• COSC 494 / 594 — Unconventional Computation (Fall ‘12)
• FYS 129, section 11: Can a Robot Have a Mind? (Fall ‘12)
  
• Research Opportunities for Students [under revision]
  
• Information for my MS and PhD Students
• Courses Previously Taught
  

Professional Activities

• Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Collegium Budapest.
• Co-Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation.
• Fellow Member, American Nano Society.
  
• Member, Scientific Advisory Council and Scientific Cooperation Partner, INBIOSA (INtegral BIOmathics Support Action).
• Associate Editor, Advances in Artificial Intelligence.
• Editorial Board Member, Open Behavioral Sciences Journal.
• Action Editor, Journal of Artificial General Intelligence.
• BBS Associate, Behavioral and Brain Sciences.
• Member, Robotics/AI, Nanotechnology, and Scientific Freedom Advisory Boards of the Lifeboat Foundation.
  
  

Links

• MacLennan links
• Research Related Links
• Professional Societies

MacLennan links:

• Vita
  
• Recent papers, presentations, technical reports, etc.    See my research interests for additional publications. 
• Books by me (comments invited).
• From Pythagoras to the Digital Computer: The Intellectual Roots of Symbolic Artificial Intelligence (Vol. I of Word and Flux) book in progress — UTK CS department local access only, or use password access. All others please send me mail.
• Myth of Pandora: my translation of Hesiod’s misogynist version from the Works and Days, on Diotima (Materials for the Study of Women & Gender in the Ancient World).

Research Related Links:

• NCSTRL - Networked CS Technical Report Library
• Institute for Advanced Studies, Collegium Budapest

Professional Societies:

• AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) homepage and Science On-Line.
  • Evolution on the Front Line (from AAAS).
  • Statement on Climate Change (from AAAS).
    
• IEEE Home Page including the IEEE Computer Society and the Neural Networks Society
• American Nano Society
• International Association for Computing and Philosophy (IACAP)
• International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (ISNS)
• American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
  • Selected Statements from “the Redbook” (Policy Documents and Reports)
  • Tennessee Conference of AAUP
  • Tennessee Conference of AAUP response to “new business model” 
  • UTK  AAUP  chapter

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 Bruce MacLennan / MacLennan@utk.edu
Last update: 2012-05-14.