University of Sheffield
Professor Noel Sharkey (Co-Investigator)
Noel is an EPSRC Senior Media Fellow. He has moved freely across academic disciplines, lecturing in departments of engineering, philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, linguistics, artificial intelligence and computer science. He is known for innovative museum exhibitions and travels the world giving public lectures and running shows. In addition to this, Noel is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Connection Science and an editor of both Robotics and Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence Review.
- Website: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~noel/
Professor Roger Moore
Roger is Professor of Spoken Language Processing in the 'Speech and Hearing' Research Group (SPandH) at Sheffield University, where he is pioneering research that is aimed at developing computational models of spoken language processing by both mind and machine. Prof. Moore is currently working on a unified theory of spoken language processing in the general area of 'Cognitive Informatics' called 'PRESENCE' (PREdictive SENsorimotor Control and Emulation). PRESENCE weaves together accounts from a wide variety of different disciplines concerned with the behaviour of living systems - many of them outside the normal realms of spoken language - and compiles them into a new framework that is intended to breathe life into a new generation of research into spoken language processing by mind and machine. Prof. Moore has authored and co-authored over 100 scientific publications in the general area of speech technology applications, algorithms and assessment. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Phonetics and Linguistics at University College London. He is Editor-in-Chief of 'Computer Speech and Language' and a member of the Editorial/Advisory boards for 'Speech Communication' and the 'International Journal of Cognitive Informatics and Natural Intelligence' (IJCiNi).
- Website: http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~roger/
Simon Worgan
Simon F. Worgan obtained his BSc in artificial intelligence and computer science in 2004 and MSc in natural computation in 2005, both from the University of Birmingham. He studied for his PhD in the origins of speech sound categories at the University of Southampton and is currently working at the Univeristy of Sheffield on the Companions project, which aims to change the way we think about the relationships of people to computers and the Internet by developing a virtual conversational 'Companion'.