The Cognitive Computing Research Group (CCRG) is a multi-disciplinary research center located at the University of Memphis

University of Memphis

The University of Memphis is an American public research university located in the Normal Station neighborhood of Memphis, Tennessee and is the flagship public research university of the Tennessee Board of Regents system....

. The CCRG’s research revolves around the design and implementation of cognitive software agents, their computational applications, and their use in cognitive modeling. Until 2006, the Cognitive Computing Research Group was known as the Conscious Software Research Group (CSRG). The director is Stan Franklin

Stan Franklin

Stan Franklin is an American scientist and W. Harry Feinstone Interdisciplinary Research Professor at the and co-director of the Institute of Intelligent Systems. He is the author of Artificial Minds and mental father of IDA and its successor LIDA, both computational implementations of...

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Projects

Projects include:

• IDA, or Intelligent Distribution Agent for the U.S. Navy
• LIDA
  LIDA (cognitive architecture)
  The LIDA cognitive architecture is an integrated artificial cognitive system that attempts to model a broad spectrum of cognition in biological systems, from low-level perception/action to high-level reasoning. Developed primarily by Stan Franklin and colleagues at the University of Memphis, the...
  
  , or Learning IDA, which adds various mode of human-like learning to the IDA architecture
• CMattie, the first attempt to design and implement an intelligent agent under the framework of Bernard Baars
  Bernard Baars
  Bernard J. Baars is a former Senior Fellow in Theoretical Neurobiology at The Neurosciences Institute in La Jolla, CA., and is currently an Affiliated Fellow there. He is best known as the originator of the global workspace theory, a theory of human cognitive architecture and consciousness...
  
  ' Global Workspace Theory
  Global Workspace Theory
  Global Workspace Theory is a simple Cognitive architecture that has been developed to account qualitatively for a large set of matched pairs of conscious and unconscious processes. It was proposed by Bernard Baars...
  
  
• VMattie, or Virtual Mattie, which actively gathers information, composes announcements, and mails them to a continually updated list