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Stevan Harnad

Stevan Harnad

School of Electronics and Computer Science
University of Southampton
Southampton
SO17 1BJ
United Kingdom

Position: Academic staff in Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group
Extension: 23580
Telephone: Work (Voice): +44 (0)23 8059 3580
Fax: Work (Fax): +44 (0)23-80 592-865
Email: harnad@ecs.soton.ac.uk
URI: http://id.ecs.soton.ac.uk/person/101 [browse]

The group secretary for the Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia Group is Jane Morgan.

Biography

STEVAN HARNAD was born in Hungary, did his undergraduate work at McGill University and his graduate work at Princeton University and is currently Professor of Cognitive Science at Southampton University. His research is on categorisation, communication and cognition. Founder and Editor of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (a paper journal published by Cambridge University Press), Psycoloquy (an electronic journal sponsored by the American Psychological Association) and the CogPrints Electronic Preprint Archive in the Cognitive Sciences

Qualifications

B.A. (hon. psych.) McGill 1967; M.A. (psych.) McGill 1969;
M.A. (psych.) Princeton 1971; Ph.D. (psych.) Princeton 1991

Other Professional Activities

Worldwide Advocacy for Open Access to Research

Conferences Attended

--- 2002 ---

Invited Speaker: International seminar: "Scholarly communication reconsidered" Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Firenze Italy, 21 January 2002 http://www.bncf.net/dafne

Seminaire. L'apprentissage des categories. Departement d'informatique. Universite du Quebec a Montreal. mardi 5 fevrier 2002.

Forum des études supérieures de la recherche: Auto-archivage des publications pour augmenter leur impact scientifique. Universite du Quebec a Montreal. lundi 11 fevrier 2002. http://www.uqam.ca/forum/programme.pdf

Invited Seminar. L'auto-archivage at la cybermétrie. Association pour la mesure des sciences et des techniques (ADEST) http://www.upmf-grenoble.fr/adest/seminaires/semfutur.html Paris 14 February 2002.

L'apprentissage implicite et explicite des catégories. Centre de neurosciences de la cognition. Université du Québec à Montréal. lundi 22 février 2002.

Seminaire. Auto-archivage et accès libre: le contrôle des pairs et le contrôle des prix. École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l'information. Université de Montréal. 12 mars 2002.

Invited speaker. The New Information Order and the Future of the Archive. University of Edinburgh. 20-23 March 2002. http://www.ed.ac.uk/iash/archive.conference.html

Overview of Current Scholarly Communication Environment. Queens University, Kingston, Ontario 10 April, 2002. http://library.queensu.ca/scholarcomm/2002conf/program.htm

Keynote Address: Open Research Access for an Open Society. Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing DIAC-02.
University of Washington Seattle, 16-19 May 2002.
http://cpsr.org/conferences/diac02/program.html

Inaugural Lecture. "Darwin, Skinner, Turing and the Mind." Foreign Member. Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Budapest, Hungary 27 May 2002. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/darwin.htm

Plenary Address, Hungarian Psychological Association. "At What Point Does Evolutionary Psychology Become a Reductio Ad Absurdum?" University of Szeged, Hungary 31 May 2002.

Minicourse on Cognitive Science. University of Szeged. June 2002.

TENNET XIII, 13th Annual conference on Theoretical and Experimental Neuropsychology, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 21-23 June 2002.
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/tennet/

Seminar. "Can a Machine be Conscious?" Philsoophy Department, McGill University. 4 pm 20 September 2002 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/machine.htm

Rights Metadata for OAi Working Group Meeting. Loughborough University, 2 October 2002.

Invited Lecturer. "Evolution of Behavior, Cognition and Consciousness." Workshop on Evolution of Structure and Function in Biology. Trieste 21-25 October 2002. http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/TRAINING/CRS02/Evolution_Str_Fun.htm

Intervenant invite. "Ranimer la tradition orale par ciélographie". Les defis de l'editon numerique. Quinzièmes entretiensl du Centre Jacques Cartier. Lyon 8-11 decembre 2002. http://isdn.enssib.fr/cartier/colloque.htm

--- 2003 ---

Invited Speaker. Open Access to Scientific & Technical Information. Paris 23-24 January 2003. http://www.inist.fr/openaccess/en/programme.php
http://iospress.metapress.com/link.asp?id=fq43700pphml
Webcast of talk: http://webcast.in2p3.fr/openaccess/harnad.ram
Question session: http://webcast.in2p3.fr/openaccess/questions4.ram

Séminaire: L'ancrage du symbolique dans le sensorimoteur". Université de Montréal. 21 février 2003

Seminar From implicit knowledge by acquaintance to explicit knowledge by description: The adaptive road to language. Concordia University. 9 March 2003.

Synergies Network Symposium, Simon Fraser University, Vanvouver BC 20-21 March 2003.

Keynote Address. Symposium on Scholarly Publishing and Archiving on the Web. University of Albany. 7 April 2003. http://library.albany.edu/symposium/program.html

"Making One's Mark in the PostGutenberg World: How to Enhance Research Impact Through Self-Archiving" Princeton University. 1:00pm 1 May 2003.
Can a Machine Be Conscious? Rutgers University Department of Philosophy. Davison Hall, Douglass. 4:30 pm 1 May 2003.
http://www.philosophy.rutgers.edu/EVENTS/colloquia.html

"Making One's Mark in the PostGutenberg World: How to Enhance Research Impact Through Self-Archiving" Rutgers University. 10:30am 2 May 2003.

Keynote Address, Author/institution self-archiving and the future of peer-reviewed journals" Council of Science Editors (CSE) Annual Meeting, 9:30 am, Pittsburgh PA 4 May 2003.
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/events_03Program_Schedule.shtml
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/publications/CSEviews2.cfm?volume=26&issue=5
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/members/securedDocuments/v26n5p150-151.pdf

Panelist, State of the art in electronic journals and electronic publishing, Council of Science Editors (CSE) Annual Meeting, 10:30 am, Pittsburgh PA 5 May 2003
http://www.councilscienceeditors.org/events_03annualMtg.shtml

Invited presentation: "Open Access by Peaceful Evolution" At: International Association of Scientific, Technical and Medical Publishers "Universal Access: By Evolution or Revolution?" Amsterdam, 15-16 May 2003. http://www.stm-assoc.org/infosharing/springconference-prog.html

(Rights Metadata for Open Archiving [RoMEO] Advisory Board. 10am London 10 May 2003)

(Peer Review Working Party 2pm London 20 May)

Workshop on Peer Review. Trieste, Italy, 23-24 May 2003 http://www.sissa.it/~marco/ws.html

Invited Lecturer. "There Is No Concrete." Conference on: "Access to the Abstract." University of Southern Denmark Odense, 30-31 May 2003. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/abstract.htm

UQaM Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences on Categorization. 30 June - 11 July 2003
http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html

Keynote Speaker, "Maximizing and Measuring Institutional Research Impact" Oldenburg Germany 17-19 September 2003
http://physnet.physik.uni-oldenburg.de/projects/SINN/sinn03/programme.html

Conférencier invité: L'auto-archivage et l'initiative de Budapest pour l'accès libre à la recherche scientifique. Congrès de la Société Française de Psychologie. Poitiers, France 25-26 septembre 2003 http://www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr/laco/SFP-2003/SFP-Atelier-parall%E8le-vendredi.htm#atelier3 http://www.mshs.univ-poitiers.fr/laco/SFP-2003/SFPsiteLaCo.htm

Invited Lecture, School of Analytic Studies & Information Technology and Committee on Research & Teaching "Brownbag Research Seminars." (1) (noon - 2 pm) Maximizing and Measuring Scholarly Impact by Maximizing Scholarly Access: Toward a University and National Policy of Self-Archiving Research Output. (2) (4pm) To Cognize is to Categorize: Cognition Is Categorization York University Tuesday September 30 2003 http://www.yorku.ca/sasit/brownbag/index.html

Seminar, Ebbinghaus Empire, University of Toronto, 12:15-1:30 Wednesday 1 October 2003
Can Machines Feel? How?

Invited speaker. Max Planck Society Symposium on Open Access to the Data and Results of the Sciences and Humanities. Berlin, 18-22 October 2003. http://www.zim.mpg.de/openaccess-berlin/index.html
Ad hoc Symposium: "Two Roads to Open Access," Freie Universität Berlin, 22. Oktober 2003. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/berlin_symp.htm

Colloque. Association pour l'avancement des sciences et des techniques de la documentation. 15:45-16:45, Ottawa, vendredi 7 novembre 2003. http://www.asted.org/congres/

Keynote speaker, Open Access Seminar, National Committee of University and Research Libraries, Norwegian Council of Higher Education. Discussions with stake-holders in national research policy making and budgeting. 11-12 November 2003, Oslo, Norway. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/oslo.htm

Session sur l'accès libre, cours de scientométrie, CIRST W-3235, UQàM, 11h00 à 12h30 18 novembre 2003

Workshop on consciousness and neuroscience. University of Pittsburgh. 6 December 2003. http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/feelingconf.htm

11 Dec. Bilan de l'École d'été 2003 en sciences cognitives. jeudi 11 décembre 2003 au DS-1950 à midi.

--- 2004 ---


Keynote Speaker. Cognitive Science Symposium. University College and Cognitive Science Students Association. University of Toronto. 30-31 January 2004.
http://www.utism.org/
http://www.utoronto.ca/cogsciai/

15-19 Feb Southampton
National Policies on Open Access (OA) Provision for University Research Output: an International meeting, Southampton, 19 February 2004.
http://opcit.eprints.org/feb19prog.html

Human Language: cognitive, neuroscientific and dynamical systems perspectives. University of Newcastle, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, 19-22 February, 2004. http://www.staff.ncl.ac.uk/peter.andras/lingsymp.htm

Budapest meetings. 23-27 February 2004. http://dsd.sztaki.hu/conferences/ontologia/eload.html

Invited plenary paper. Interdisciplinary Conference on "Compositionality, Concepts, and Cognition" Heinrich Heine University Duesseldorf, Germany 28 February - 3 March 2004 http://www.phil-fak.uni-duesseldorf.de/thphil/compositionality/

S. Chartier soutenance matin 10 DS-1950

10 May. D. Mareschal McGill

Colloque ACFAS 2004 Propriété intellectuelle. Droit d'auteur et diffusion de la recherche. Université du Québec à Montréal, 13 mai 2004 http://benhur.teluq.uquebec.ca/spersonnel/mcouture/ACFAS2004/programme.htm

Invited Speaker, Szetfolyoirat ("Disperserial"): Serial Culture in the Electronic Age. Eotvos Lorand Scientific University, Budapest, Hungary 21-22 May 2004.
http://mokk.bme.hu/periodicals/period_eng_index.html
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/disperserials.htm

Wizards of OS 3 panel on "Free Access Science" Berlin. 10-12 June 2004. http://wizards-of-os.org/index.php?id=708&L=
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Pictures/wos.jpg

Libre Accès aux résultats de la recherche : une politique pour un renouveau de la publication scientifique. Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique du CNRS. La Rochelle, France, 24-25 juin 2004. http://www.inist.fr/openaccess/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=8

World Forum of Cultures: From Conflict to Cooperation. Proposals from the Cognitive Sciences. Barcelona. 17-20 July 2004. http://www.barcelona2004.org http://www.barcelona2004.org/eng/eventos/dialogos/ficha.cfm?IdEvento=164&IdTipoPest=2&pag=2
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/we-they.htm
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/huma-evan.html

Scholarly Publishing: Challenges for Peer Review in the Digital World: "Peer review in the Open Access era" 1:55 PM-5:00 PM, Sunday, August 22 http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/228nm/techprogram/S12318.HTM Perspectives on Open Access: "The gold and the green roads to Open Access" 1:30 PM-5:00 PM, Monday, August 23 http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/228nm/techprogram/S15522.HTM American Chemical Society. Pennsylvania Convention Center -- 110A&B, http://oasys2.confex.com/acs/228nm/techprogram/D1002.HTM
http://www.acscinf.org/cinf/meetings/228nm/228cinfabstracts.htm

EuroCris, CRIS + Open Access = The Route to Research Knowledge,The Green and Gold Roads to Open Access, Palace of the Academies, Brussels September 20-21 2004. http://www.eurocris.org/en/seminars/seminar2004/programme/

INASP (International Network for the Availability of Scientific Publications) and WAME (World Association of Medical Editors) and JPGM (Journal of Postgraduate Medicine) Mumbai, India, 23-26 September, 2004. http://www.jpgmonline.com/goldcon.asp

Featured Speaker. Internet Librarian International 2004. London. 11 October, 2004. http://www.internet-librarian.com/Monday.shtml#OpenAccess
Dialup Video for Talk: http://www.streamingmedia.com/internetlibrarian/inetlib1_56.asx
Broadband Video for Talk: http://www.streamingmedia.com/internetlibrarian/inetlib1_300.asx
Discussion Dialup Video: http://www.streamingmedia.com/internetlibrarian/inetlib3_56.asx
Discussion Broadband Video: http://www.streamingmedia.com/internetlibrarian/inetlib3_300.asx

Invited Speaker. Whitehead Lectures on Computational Creativity and Cognition. Goldsmiths College. 13 October 1004. http://www.goldsmiths.ac.uk/departments/computing/seminars/2004-05/autumn.html

Invited Speaker. Self-archiving, peer-review and quality assessment aspects of open access. Symposium on Open Access to Knowledge and Scholarly Communication. University of Zurich and Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. Zurich, Switzerland 15 October 2004. http://www.oai.unizh.ch/symposium/program.html

Invited Speaker. Chemical Sciences Roundtable Workshop. National Academy of Sciences. Washington DC 25-26 October 2004.
http://www7.nationalacademies.org/bcst/Agenda_Pub.html

NIH Meeting, Bldg. 1. 2-30 pm. 26 October 2004.

Speaking of Open Access. Internet Librarian 2004 Monterey Calfornia 17 November 2004. http://www.infotoday.com/il2004/wednesday.shtml#TrackC
http://www.infotoday.com/il2004/presentations/default.shtml#OA
STREAMING VIDEO (Windows Media format) Presentation
STREAMING VIDEO (Real format) Presentation
STREAMING VIDEO (Windows Media format) Q&A
STREAMING VIDEO (Real format) Q&A

Invited Speaker, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan, November 25, 2004. http://www.j-c-c.co.jp/lf6forum.htm

Invited Speaker, Cologne Summit on Open Access Publishing, Cologne, 6-8 December, 2004. http://www.zbmed.de/summit/
--- 2005 ---

fri 21 january tnc me
http://www.unites.uqam.ca/cnc/cogsci/English/schedule.htm

mon 24 jan sem sect me 9h30

Open Access Meeting. Southampton University. 25-26 January, 2005.
http://www.eprints.org/jan2005/

lundi 14 fév vice-rect rech AL 11h15 D-5350

Berlin Declaration 3: Southampton University. 26 February - 2 March, 2005.
http://www.eprints.org/berlin3/program.html

fri mar 11 tnc me: creativity http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/creativite.ppt

(1) Symposium on Creativity, Mind, and Brain in Hungarian Scholarship: Past and Present. Indiana University, Saturday-Sunday, 2-3 April, 2005.
http://www.indiana.edu/~hca/conf/conference.html
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/creativity.ppt

(2) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/indiana-mon.html

(2a) Panel Monday, Symposium on Language and Perception 12:00-2:00 pm Monday, 4 April, 2005
http://cognitrn.psych.indiana.edu/rgoldsto/languageperception.html
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/C-list.ppt

(2b) "Open Access Scientometrics" Networks and Complex Systems 6-7 pm Monday, 4 April
http://vw.indiana.edu/talks-spring05/

(3) http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/indiana-tue.html

(3a) Rob Kling Center for Social Informatics Speaker Series. "Maximizing Research Impact Through Institutional Self-Archiving". Indiana University, Tuesday 5 April 2005.
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/research/colloq_readingss05.html#harnad

Zenon Pylyshyn Festschrift, Guelph, 29 April 2005.
http://zencon.ca/
Dini Workshop on Open Access. "Designing and Implementing University and Research Institution Self-Archiving Policy" Goettingen, Germany. 23-24 May 2005.
http://www.dini.de/veranstaltung/workshop/goettingen_2005-05-23/programm.php

Invited keynote speaker. "The green and gold roads to maximizing research access, usage and impact" 26th Annual Conference of the International Association of Technological University Libraries (IATUL), Quebec, Canada, June 2 2005.
http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/iatul2005/Harnad_Stevan_pres.html
http://www.bibl.ulaval.ca/iatul2005/prog_en.html

International Development Research Centre, "'Self-Archive Unto Others As Ye Would Have Them Self-Archive Unto You': The Golden Rule of Knowledge Transfer" Open Access and its impact on research in the developing world.
Ottawa June 7 2005 http://web.idrc.ca/es/ev-10380-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

Invited keynote speaker. "Open Access to Scientific and Scholarly Research: Why and How?" Freedom of Information and Open Access. Chaos Control 2005. University of Vienna/School of Law, the Austrian Academy of Science and the Danube University, Krems. Vienna, 15-16 June 2005.
http://www.chaoscontrol.at/programm.htm

Conceptual grounding in cognitive processes, Cognitive Science 2005 Stresa, Italy, 19-24 July 2005.
http://www.psych.unito.it/csc/cogsci05/frame/symposia/sp01-glenberg.pdf
http://www.psych.unito.it/csc/cogsci05/sessions.html

Invited Speaker, Open Access, Open Archives and Open Source. National Scholarly Communications Forum #19, State Library of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, September 27, 2005.
http://www.humanities.org.au/Events/NSCF/CurrentRT/NSCFRT19Programme.pdf

Invited keynote Speaker. 8th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. Sydney Australia. 28-30 September, 2005
http://adt.caul.edu.au/etd2005/etd2005.html

La perception catégorielle. Séminaire de phénomenologie. École normale supérieure. Paris 22 octobre 2005.
http://www.ens.fr/

DASER-2 Summit: Digital Archives for Science & Engineering Resources. "Institutional repository models: what works and what doesn't." December 2-4 2005
http://www.daser.org/program.html

--- 2006 ---

Invited Plenary lecture, 1st European Conference on Scientific Publishing in Biomedicine and Medicine (ECSP) "Researchers and Open Access - the new scientific publishing environment" and also Workshop on "Self-archiving, Institutional Repositories, and its impact on research" Lund, Sweden 21- 22 April 2006 http://www.ecspbiomed.net

The Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K) Yale Law School,New Haven, 21-23 April 2006 http://research.yale.edu/isp/a2k/wiki/index.php/Yale_A2K_Conference

Invited Keynote. Open Access and Information Management: An International Workshop Organized by the Information Management Committee of Research & Technology Organisation of NATO, Oslo, Norway, May 10, 2006 http://www.rto.nato.int/Detail.asp?ID=1692

Invited Keynote. CRIS2006. Open Access Institutional Repositories. Current Research Information Systems. Bergen, Norway, 11-13 May 2006 http://ct.eurocris.org/CRIS2006/

Congrès de l'ACFAS 2006: Colloque sur l'autoarchivage des articles de recherche, leurs libres accès et leurs impacts scientifiques McGill, Montréal, 15 mai 2006
http://www.acfas.ca/acfas74/coll515.htm

Invited Speaker, "Wittgenstein's Error: All Language is Public, But Not Necessarily Social," External Symbol Grounding 2006 workshop, Plymouth, UK, 3-4 July 2006 http://www.tech.plym.ac.uk/SoCCE/ESG2006/

2nd Euroscience Open Forum (ESOF) Munich, Germany, July 15th-19th 2006
http://www.esof2006.org/blog_article.php4?ID=32&what=Article http://www.esof2006.org/scientific_session_detail.php4?ID=146

Pourquoi parlons-nous? Le langage humain à la lumière de l’évolution. Institut des sciences cognitives de l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) 13 novembre 2006
http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/cogsci2/isc/imprimer.php3?id_article=209&lang=fr

Invited speaker. "Maximizing and Measuring Research Impact Through Open Access Mandates and Metrics" Conference on Open Access to Knowledge. University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, 27-28 November 2006.
http://www.sdum.uminho.pt/confOA/index_en.htm

Invited Talk 1. Maximising the Return on Resource Investment in Research. Indiana Memorial Union, Indiana University, 11 am 4 December 2006
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/indimandate.html

Invited Talk 2. "The Open Research Web: A Preview of the Optimal and the Inevitable" Networks and Complex Systems. Indiana University. 6 pm 4 December 2006
http://vw.indiana.edu/talks-fall06/

Invited Talk 3. "Category Acquisition and the Origin of Language" 121 Psychology 11 am 5 December 2006
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~harnad/Temp/indilang.html

--- 2007 ---


Séminaire À la recherche des catégories: adaptativité, créativité, science, Journées scientifiques du Laboratoire de psychologie et neurosciences cognitives, Paris 17-20 January 2007
http://www.psycho.univ-paris5.fr/recherch/labo_cog/accueil.htm

Poster at Open Repositories 2007 "Repositories for Institutional Open Access: Mandated Deposit Policies"
Leslie Carr, Alma Swan, Arthur Sale, Charles Oppenheim, Tim Brody, Steve Hitchcock, Chawki Hajjem and Harnad Stevan. San Antonio TX, 23 January 2007.
http://www.openrepositories.org/program/posters

Invited Speaker: Institutional Open Access Repositories: Mandated Deposit Policies. European Commission Conference on "Scientific Publishing in the European Research Area - Access, Dissemination, and Preservation in the Digital Age" Brussels, 15-16 February 2007.
http://ec.europa.eu/research/science-society/page_en.cfm?id=3459