Derek J. Smith, Consultant Cognitive Scientist
CEng
(Information Systems), CITP, FHEA, MBCS, Dip Med Ed (Dundee), Cert Res Meth
This version 10:00 BST 2nd September
2024
Research Associate, International Software Products,
Toronto
Previously Senior Lecturer in Informatics and Cognitive Science at
Cardiff Metropolitan University
COVID-19 FAST TRACKING
Here are
the resources which were fast-tracked during the COVID-19 emergency, but which
have not been routinely updated since March 2021 ...
COVID, the
people and the places
INCLUDES
A LOT OF VERY DETAILED HISTORY
INCLUDES
A LOT OF VERY HARD SCIENCE
A
PEPYSIAN DIARY OF SORTS
APOLOGIES
A number of inward links still use an obsolete legacy URL
structure...smithsrisca.demon.co.... Simply select the corresponding title from
the tables below or re-key without the demon
bit. As of July 2018 many files have lost the automatic insertion of in-line
graphics. These problems are being worked upon by re-issuing each file in pdf
form. In the meantime specific graphic display links have been added at point
of need.
AT A GLANCE
Between 1980 and 1991 I worked for the Cardiff data processing division
of British Telecom, specialising in the design and
operation of very large databases and management support systems. Between 1991
and 2010 I lectured in health informatics and cognitive science at Cardiff
Metropolitan University, specialising in the
cognitive neuropsychology required by Speech and Language Therapists and
students of applied psychology generally. I am currently Chief Designer on the Konrad artificial consciousness project.
CONTACT
ME AT smithsrisca@btinternet.com
PROJECT KONRAD
Konrad is
a state-of-the-art simulation of biological cognition which combines my
database design experience and in-depth understanding of cognition with
International Software Products' CA IDMS production platform. By focusing on
the semantic network nature of the mind's long-, medium-, and short-term memory
systems the Konrad software offers
clients and collaborators a test-bed, complete with detailed print-out, on
which they can explore hypotheses as to mental function which cannot be tested
in living subjects. Project Konrad is
animated cognition taken to the extreme. It is designed around the best models
available from philosophy, neuropsychology, and psycholinguistics, and runs at
about natural speed. Its USP [= Unique Selling
Proposition] is that it messages what it is thinking about in
real-time, and then gives you a microscopically detailed hard copy at the end
of each run telling you how it did what it did.
In early 2024, a number of separate legacy glossaries
were consolidated into a single updated reference and support resource ...
click here for
the Konrad System Glossary
PROJECT ANEURIN
WHAT WE HAD TO SAY IN 2014 ...
Aneurin is
a work-in-progress online encyclopaedia on the theme
of humankind at war, inspired [when first published
in 2014] by the rapidly approaching centenary of the Great
War. Each essay takes an issue of philosophical interest [what is bravery, say,
and can it be taught], and then seeks explanatory insight in the cognitive
science literature. Time and time again the available theory implicates our
species' primate inheritance as a self-indulgent and intolerant man-ape,
capable, when properly primed, of unrestricted cruelty and destruction. The
relationship between our animal emotions and our much-vaunted faculties of
intellect is especially interesting, with the former prevailing over the latter
far too often for us to sleep easily in our beds. Details aside, the individual
essays, each in its own way, reflect upon a common central issue, namely that
we really do need to understand why the War
to End All Wars achieved nothing of the sort, indeed has been followed
without break by a hundred years of accelerating human conflict. WW1, in short,
is a lesson still waiting to be learned, and it would be a fitting tribute to
the millions who suffered at its hands to use its centenary years for this very
purpose.
WHAT WE HAVE TO ADD IN 2024 ...
As things have turned out, the
lesson of WW1 is STILL very much waiting to be learned. The Aneurin files
accordingly now extend without apology to the NATO operation against Russia,
2014-ongoing, and - even more ominously - to the Gaza Novocaust,
2023-ongoing.
Project Aneurin Sections
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Part 1, History of Warfare, Prehistory to 730 C.E. |
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Part 2, History of Warfare, 731 to 1272 |
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Part 3, History of Warfare, 1273 to 1602 |
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Part 4, History of Warfare, 1603 to 1661 |
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Part 5, History of Warfare, 1662 to 1763 |
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Part 6, History of Warfare, 1764 to 1815 |
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Part 7,
History of Warfare, 1816 to 1869 |
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Part 8,
History of Warfare, 1870 to 1894 |
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Part 9,
History of Warfare, 1895 to August 1914 |
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Part 10, WW1,
August to December 1914 |
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Part 10, WW1,
1915 |
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Part 10, WW1, 1916 |
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Part 10, WW1, 1917 |
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Part 10, WW1, 1918 |
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Part 11, Russian Civil War, 1919-ongoing |
click here
CONSTANTLY EXTENDED |
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Conspiracy Theory Glossary (JFK, etc.) |
click here CONSTANTLY
EXTENDED |
STUDENT RESOURCES
In my 20 years as
university lecturer I produced a large number of explanatory handouts and encyclopaedic resources. Most of these began as hard copy
material in the 1990s, but were subsequently upgraded for electronic delivery
under the Smithsrisca
banner between 2000 and 2005. These are indexed below, along with some more
recent conference PowerPoint presentations .....
Artificial Intelligence / Machine Consciousness Series
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Short-Term Memory Subtypes in Computing and
Artificial Intelligence: Part 2 - A Brief History of Computing Technology, 1925 to 1942 |
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Short-Term Memory Subtypes in Computing and
Artificial Intelligence: Part 3 - A Brief History of Computing Technology, 1943 to 1950 |
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Short-Term Memory Subtypes in Computing and
Artificial Intelligence: Part 4 - A Brief History of Computing Technology, 1951 to 1958 |
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Short-Term Memory Subtypes in Computing and
Artificial Intelligence: Part 5 - A Brief History of Computing Technology, 1959 to date |
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Short-Term Memory Subtypes in Computing and
Artificial Intelligence: Part 6 - Memory Subtypes in Computing |
EXPECTED SUMMER
2024 |
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Database Navigation and the CA IDMS Semantic Net |
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A Computer Simulation of Meinong's (1902) Objektiv Stage of Object
Perception [CONFERENCE
POWERPOINT, Edinburgh, April 2009] |
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A Demonstration of
Philosopher-Friendly Reductionism in a Computational Model of Cognition [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT,
Oxford, September 2009] |
e-mail the author |
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The Forensic Ergonomics of Distraction Errors: A Computer Simulation [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, Keele, April 2010] |
e-mail the author |
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The Surprisingly Difficult Science of Beautiful
Paintings [EXHIBITION
POWERPOINT, Wrexham Science Festival, July 2012] |
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Artificial Consciousness: A CA IDMSTM
Database Solution to Autonomous Robotics [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, CA World '13, Las
Vegas, April 2013] |
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The Cognitive Science of Aesthetic Interaction [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT,
BCE EVA 2013, London, July 2013] |
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The Surprisingly Difficult Science of Two plus Two [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT,
BCME8, Nottingham, April 2014] |
e-mail the author |
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Trench Gothic: The Computer Visualisation of a
Disturbing Great War Artwork [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, BCS EVA 2014, London, July
2014] |
Our Mental Philosophy Glossary
Here are the
files making up my multi-file navigable data dictionary on the theme of self
and consciousness .....
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Mental
Philosophy Glossary [A/B] |
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Mental
Philosophy Glossary [Case Histories] |
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Mental
Philosophy Glossary [Consciousness] |
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Mental
Philosophy Glossary [C, remaining entries] |
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Mental
Philosophy Glossary [D] |
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Mental
Philosophy Glossary [E/F] |
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Mental
Philosophy Glossary [G/H/I] |
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Mental
Philosophy Glossary [J/K/L] |
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Mental
Philosophy Glossary [M/N/O] |
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Mental
Philosophy Glossary [Persona.....] |
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Mental
Philosophy Glossary [P/Q/R] |
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Mental
Philosophy Glossary [S] |
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Mental
Philosophy Glossary [T to Z] |
Brain and Behaviour Series
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Microanatomy
of the Cerebral Cortex |
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Kleist (1934) |
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Communication
and the Naked Ape |
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The Motor
Hierarchy |
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Motor
Programming |
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Biological
Cybernetics |
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Hebbian
Theory |
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The Limbic
System, Motivation, and Drive |
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The Pyramidal
and Extra-Pyramidal Motor Systems |
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From Frontal Lobe Syndrome to Dysexecutive Syndrome |
Robotics, Cybernetics, and the Like
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Norris' (1991) "Constraints on
Connectionism" |
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A Brief History of Automata |
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Basics of Cybernetics |
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The Eckert-von Neumann Machine |
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Introduction to Systems Theory |
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Shannonian Communication Theory and Biological
Communication |
click here |
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An Introduction to Data Modelling for Semantic
Network Designers |
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On
database keys, with an application to the Praxisproblem. [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, Orlando, FL, July 2005] |
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The
problem of context in sentence production - Surely a case to re-convene the
Data Base Task Group? [CONFERENCE
POWERPOINT, Austin, TX, July 2005] |
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How ideas
evolve into speech - A computer animation. [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, Oxford, September 2005] |
e-mail the author |
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Gunnery Control Computing at the Battle of Jutland,
1916 [LECTURE
POWERPOINT, Swansea, April 2016] |
e-mail
the author |
Historical Cognitive Models Series (In Timeline Sequence)
I am a keen cognitive
modeller, and included practical modeling skills at a
number of points in my psychology curriculum. My own six-module modular diagram
of cognition (Smith, 1993b; Smith and
Stringer, 1997; Smith, 1999c; Smith, 2000b; Smith, 2010c) attempts (a) to
locate, and (b) to show the relationship between, the major types of long-,
medium-, and short term memory in a three-level biological control hierarchy.
The following items trace how the story starts .....
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Descartes
(1662) - The Philosopher's View |
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Bell-Magendie
(1811) - The Anatomist's View |
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Lordat (1834) -
The Army Surgeon's View |
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Wernicke (1874) - The Aphasiologist's View |
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Kussmaul (1878) - Early "Cog Neuro" View |
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Charcot's (1883) "Bell" - Early "Cog Neuro" View |
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Lichtheim's (1885) "House" |
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Grashey (1885) |
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James (1890) |
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Freud (1891) |
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Wundt (1902) |
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Freud (1896) - The Psychoanalyst's View |
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Freud (1900) - The Psychoanalyst's View |
Control Hierarchy Models Series (In Timeline Sequence)
.....and the following items bring us fully up to date .....
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Freud (1933) - The Psychoanalyst's View |
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Craik (1945) - The Pioneer Ergonomist's View |
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Wepman et al (1960) - The Clinician's View |
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Frank (1963) - The Information Scientist's View |
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Reader (1969) - Early Roboticist's View |
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Dennett
(1978) - The Philosopher's View |
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Rasmussen (1983) - The Forensic Ergonomist's View |
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Allport (1985) - The Distributed Semantics View |
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Norman (1990) - The State-of-the-Art View |
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Arkin (1990) - State-of-the-Art Roboticist's View |
click here [scroll to Figure 7] |
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Smith (1993) - The System Analyst's View |
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Frith, Rees, and Friston's (1998) - "Forward
Model" [LECTURE POWERPOINT] |
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Smith (2007-2011) - Project Konrad's View [which incorporates all the above] |
[e-mail the
author for earlier versions] |
Theoretical Cognitive Science
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Education Theory Timeline |
e-mail the
author |
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Experiential Learning: The Knowledge Structures and the Cognitive Processes |
e-mail the author |
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How to Draw Cognitive Diagrams (with tutorial exercises) |
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Transcoding Models - Introduction and Overview |
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Norman and Bobrow's (1975) Resource Allocation
Theory |
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Minsky's (1977) Frame-System Theory |
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Thorndike's (1977) Story Memory Theory |
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Speech Errors, Speech Production Models, and Speech Pathology |
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Dyslexia and the Cognitive Science of |
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Neuropsychology/Aphasiology Timeline |
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Neuropsychology/Aphasiology Glossary |
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Memory Glossary |
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Psycholinguistics Glossary |
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Rational Argument Glossary |
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Research Methods Glossary |
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An
Introduction to Creativity |
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The Bilingual
Brain (Why Machines Can't Translate for Toffee) [EXHIBITION POWERPOINT
Wrexham Science Festival, 10th March 2008] |
e-mail the
author |
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The
Psychology of Numeracy |
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Mathematics
in the Mind [EXHIBITION POWERPOINT Wrexham Science Festival, 30th March 2009] |
e-mail the
author |
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The Molyneux Question |
Modern Psycholinguistic Models Series (In Timeline Sequence)
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Morton (1964) |
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Gough (1972) |
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Marshall and Newcombe (1973) |
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Morton (1979) |
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Morton (1981) |
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Ellis (1982) |
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McCarthy and
Warrington (1984) |
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McCarthy and
Warrington (1985) |
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Roeltgen and Heilman (1985) |
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Crosson (1985) |
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Ellis and
Young (1988) |
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Garrett
(1990) |
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Kay, Lesser, and Coltheart (1992) |
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Coltheart,
Curtis, Atkins, and Haller (1993) |
Perception, Attention, and Memory Models (In Timeline Sequence)
I lectured in cognitive
neuropsychology between 1991 and 2010, and covered all aspects of memory
theory, including the amnesias and the underlying biochemistry. From a
theoretical standpoint, I favour the Lashley-Pribram
distributed memory approach (having been impressed with Karl Pribram's
holographic hypothesis ever since it first appeared back in the 1960s). I also
closely follow research into "second messenger" neurotransmission,
because I hold the mechanisms of medium-term neural sensitisation
to be fundamental to the emergence of all complex cognitive faculties,
including abstraction, association, self-awareness, and consciousness.
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Broadbent (1958) |
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Sperling (1960) |
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Sperling (1963) |
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Sperling (1967) |
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Pribram's
Holonomic Theory of Memory (1969) |
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Atkinson and
Shiffrin (1971) |
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Baddeley
(2000) |
Human Error Series
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Basic Laws of Life and Complex Systems |
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IT Project Management Disasters |
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Systems Thinking: The Knowledge Structures and the
Cognitive Processes |
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Mode Error in System Control |
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Situational Awareness in Effective Command and
Control |
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Military Bungling (including the battles of New
Orleans and Isandhlwana Hill, the Charge of the
Light Brigade, Custer's Last Stand, and the tragic story of USS Vincennes
vs Iran Air Flight 655, 1988) |
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Transportation Disasters - Aerospace (including the |
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Transportation Disasters - Maritime (including the Titanic
and Exxon Valdez disasters) |
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Transportation Disasters - Rail |
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The human operator revisited: Autonomous machines as
equals (or not quite) in the control room of the future [CONFERENCE POWERPOINT, Paris, October 2010] |
e-mail the author |
PREVIOUSLY
Professional Activities
For
nearly 30 years I have maintained my professionalism as a computer person by
active involvement with the South Wales Branch of the British Computer Society. I served on the branch committee from 1992
to 2018, and was Branch Chairman 1996-1998. I also served 1998-2006 as
psychology advisor to the Royal College of Speech and Language
Therapists. I hold the Certificate
in Training Practice from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development
and a postgraduate diploma in medical education from the Centre
for Medical Education, University of Dundee.
My Animated Cognitive
Models Projects
Many of the
PowerPoints listed above use animated diagrams, but that facility has only been
reliably available since 2005. For six years before that I used commercial
cartooning software to produce a number of short cameo animations of cognitive
models. In 2002, for example, I animated an engineer's analysis of the
principles of mental data transmission and presented this on 9th April 2002 as
a poster-plus-CD-ROM at the "Tucson V - Towards a Science of
Consciousness" conference. The project before that was to produce a
computer animation of the rapid changes in system state which take place during
a short act of human facial recognition. This animation was presented on 30th
June 2000 as a poster-in-motion at the ASSC4
Conference in Brussels, Belgium. The project
before that was an animation of the critical role played by information
feedback during the process of human speech production. This was presented on
10th April 2000 as a poster-in-motion at the "Tucson
2000 - Towards a Science of Consciousness"
conference. And the project before that (Oct-Nov 1999) was an animation of Alan
Baddeley's Working Memory Model of Memory. The development work was carried out
on resources kindly provided by British Telecom, Cardiff, and the resulting
animation "went live" during a cognitive science lecture on 18th
November 1999. [Sadly not all
these early animations still work due to changes in the Windows CODEC drivers
in the intervening years, and they have largely been replaced by PowerPoint
re-writes.]
CONFERENCES AND
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Smith, D. J. (1990). The entity, the
attribute, and the relationship. Paper presented September 1990 to the
British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Annual Conference, Leicester. [This was my first attempt to bring industrial
data modelling techniques to bear on the problems of cognitive theory.]
Smith, D. J. (1991). Suppositions of
belonging: The computational principles of meaning. Paper presented
September 1991 to the British Psychological Society Cognitive Section Annual
Conference, Oxford.
Smith, D. J. (1992). The psychology of
effective college governance: Part 1 - the management skills. Journal of
Further and Higher Education, 16:87-99.
Smith, D. J. (1993a). FETC and the latecomer
to teaching. Journal of the National Association for Staff Development,
28:17-22.
Smith, D. J. (1995a). Professional Development
through Post-Graduate Research Supervision. Journal of the National Staff
Development Agency, 32:24-33.
Smith, D. J. (1997a). The magical name Miller, plus
or minus the umlaut. In Harris, D. (Ed.), Proceedings of the First
International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive Ergonomics
(Volume 2). Aldershot: Ashgate. [ISBN: 0291398472] [Being the transcript of a paper presented 24th October 1996 to the
First International Conference on Engineering Psychology and Cognitive
Ergonomics, Stratford-upon-Avon.]
Smith, D. J. (1997b). The IDMS set currency and biological memory.
Poster presented 10th March 1997 at the Interdisciplinary Workshop on Robotics,
Biology, and Psychology, Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of
Edinburgh.
ASIDE: I was particularly fortunate during my years with British Telecom to
work on the design, development, and support of a very large CODASYL database
system. The platform used was ICL's IDMS(X), a UK-licensed variant of Computer Associates' CA-IDMS system. This
type of database organises its contents into an
intricate network, rather than into the tabular columns and rows used by more
simplistic systems, and in order to manage the resulting data networks the
system software relies upon a number of clever internal tricks. When I took up cognitive
science in 1991, I decided to look for the biological equivalents of these
mechanisms (after all, the mind had so often been described as a biological
database, that it seemed reasonable to enquire after its database internals). I
eventually concluded that the most compelling similarity was between the IDMS
concept of "database currency" and the biological mechanisms of
second messenger neurotransmission. Both allow their respective systems to maintain
a particular mental theme across a timespan larger than the span of the
immediate here and now, both do this by holding material momentarily somewhere
between short term memory and long term memory, both combine storage and
retrieval functions, and - above all - both exist to help "bind"
widely scattered memory fragments into logical wholes. What CODASYL databases
give us, therefore, is a tangible paradigm for biological consciousness in
general, and a working example of a system architecture which has successfully
overcome the "binding problem" in particular. For the precise
argument and parallel worked examples see Smith (1997a) and Smith (1997e), for
the paradigm's utility in addressing the explanatory gap see Smith (1998c), for
the front runners in mapping the human knowledge network see Doug Lenat's CYC Project, and for an introduction to the binding
problem consult Valerie Gray Hardcastle's Association
for the Scientific Study of Consciousness website.
Smith, D. J. (1997c). Chunking and cognitive efficiency: Some lessons
from the history of military signalling. Paper
presented 27th March 1997 to the 11th Annual Conference of the History and
Philosophy of Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society, York.
Smith, D. J. (1997d). Book Review: "How Brains Think: Evolving
Intelligence, Then and Now", by William H. Calvin, 1996. Journal of
Consciousness Studies, 4:381-382.
Smith, D. J. (1998a). Feedback in speech production. Invited paper
presented 10th April 1998 at the Centre for Neuroscience, University of Florida
Health Science Centre, Gainesville, FL.
Smith, D. J. (1998b). Book Review: "Anthropology at the Edge",
by J. Ian Prattis, 1996. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 5:255.
Smith D. J. (1999a). Freudian structures in
the computational mind: Some lessons from the study of ritual sacrifice.
Cardiff: UWIC. Paper presented 15th April 1999 to the 13th Annual Conference of
the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section of the British Psychological
Society, York.
Smith, D. J. (2000a). A slow-motion video
analysis of information feedback in a computer-animated psycholinguistic model.
Computer-animated poster presented 10th April 2000 at the Tucson 2000 - Towards
a Science of Consciousness conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Smith, D. J. (2000b). A slow-motion video analysis of the arrival and
circulation of initially unbinded input within
consciousness. Computer-animated poster presented 30th June 2000 at the
Fourth Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of
Consciousness, Free University, Brussels, Belgium.
Smith, D. J. (2000c). Book Review: "Artificial Life: An
Overview", by Christopher G. Langton (Ed.), 1995. Journal of
Consciousness Studies, 7(6):89-91.
Smith, D. J. (2002). Intramodular neurotransmission and the Wichita
Lineman. Poster presented 9th April 2002 at the Tucson 2002 - Towards a
Science of Consciousness conference, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.
Smith, D. J.
(2002). Book Review: "Painting, Psychoanalysis, and Spirituality", by
Stephen J. Newton, 2001. Journal of Consciousness Studies, 9(3):83-87.
Smith, D. J.
(2005). On database keys, with an application to the Praxisproblem.
In Callaos, N., Lesso, W., and Palesi,
M. (Eds.), The 9th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics, and
Informatics, July 10-13, 2005 - Orlando, Florida, USA (Volume IV). Orlando,
FL: International Institute of Informatics and Systemics.
Smith, D. J.
(2005). The problem of context in sentence production - Surely a case to
re-convene the Data Base Task Group? In Chu, H.-W., Savoie, M.J., Sanchez, B.,
and Hong, S.-M. (Eds.), The 3rd International Conference on Computing,
Communications, and Control Technologies, July 24-27, 2005 - Austin, Texas, USA
(Volume III). Orlando, FL: International Institute of Informatics and
Systemics.
Smith, D. J.
(2005). How ideas evolve into speech - A computer animation. Paper presented at
the 9th Conference of the Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of
the British Psychology Society, St. Anne's College, Oxford, 16th-18th September
2005.
Smith, D. J. (2008). Initial
Experiences with a CA-IDMS® Implementation of a Freely Willing Robotic Mind.
Poster exhibited at the Workshop on Conscious Intention, Agency, and Free Will
at the British Psychological Society, London, 22nd November 2008.
Smith, D. J.
(2009a). A computer simulation of Meinong's (1902) Objektiv stage of object
perception. Paper presented 8th April 2009 to the Annual Conference of the
History and Philosophy of Psychology Section of the British Psychological
Society, University of Edinburgh.
Smith, D. J.
(2009b). A computer simulation of Meinong's (1902) Objektiv stage of object
perception. History and Philosophy of
Psychology, 11(1): 37-43.
Smith, D. J.
(2009c). A demonstration of
philosopher-friendly reductionism in a computational model of cognition. Paper
presented 11th September 2009 to the 12th Annual Conference of the
Consciousness and Experiential Psychology Section of the British Psychological
Society, St. Anne's College, Oxford.
Smith, D. J. (2010a). The forensic ergonomics of
distraction errors: A computer simulation. Paper presented 14th April 2010 to
the Annual Conference of the Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors,
University of Keele.
Smith, D. J.
(2010b). The human operator revisited: Autonomous machines as equals (or not
quite) in the control room of the future. Paper presented 25th October 2010 to
the International Control Room Design Conference, Eurosites
République, Paris.
Smith, D. J.
(2010c). The human operator revisited: Autonomous machines as equals (or not
quite) in the control room of the future. In Wood, J. (Ed.), Conference
Proceedings, ICOCO 2010. Leicester: Institute of Ergonomics and Human
Factors.
Smith, D. J.
(2012a). The surprisingly difficult science of beautiful paintings. Paper
presented 26th July 2012 at the Wrexham Science Festival.
Smith,
D. J. (2012b). Embodied versus disembodied representation in an act of
artificial cognition. Guest
Lecture online - Shanghai Lectures 2012.
Smith, D. J. (2013). Artificial Consciousness: A CA IDMSTM
database solution to autonomous robotics. Paper presented 21st-24th April 2013
at the CA World '13 conference, Las Vegas, NV. [Play Powerpoint]
Smith, D. J. (2014a). The surprisingly difficult science of two plus
two. Demonstration-workshop presented 16th April 2014 at the British Congress
of Mathematics Education BCME8 Conference, University of Nottingham.
Smith, D. J. (2014b). Trench Gothic: The computer visualisation
of a disturbing Great War artwork. Paper presented 9th July 2014 at the
Electronic Visualisation and the Arts EVA2014
conference, BCS HQ, London.
Smith, D. J. (2016). The remarkably difficult psychology of creative visualisation. Demonstration-workshop presented 14th July
2016 at the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts
EVA2016 conference, BCS HQ, London.
Smith, D. J. (2018 - IN PRESS). On cognitive primitives and trick
cinematography. Demonstration presented 12th July 2018 at the Electronic Visualisation and the Arts EVA2018 conference, BCS HQ,
London and supported by a short paper in the conference proceedings.
TEACHING MATERIAL
ISSUED UNDER ISBN ....
It is doubtful whether UWIC
[now Cardiff Metropolitan University] retain any copies of these items so
e-mail the author for alternative arrangements.
Smith, D. J. (1995b). Systems Engineering
for Healthcare Professionals. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666022 - out of
print]
Smith, D. J. (1996b). Memory, Amnesia, and Modern
Cognitive Theory. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666006]
Smith, D. J. (1996c). Brain and Communication.
Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666014]
Smith, D. J. (1997e). The IDMS Set Currency and
Biological Memory. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666057] [Workbook to support poster presented 10th March 1997 at the
Interdisciplinary Workshop on Robotics, Biology, and Psychology, Department of
Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh.]
Smith, D. J. (1997f). Chunking and Cognitive
Efficiency: Some Lessons from the History of Military Signalling. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666065] [Transcript of paper presented 27th March 1997 to the 11th Annual
Conference of the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section of the British
Psychological Society, York.]
Smith, D. J. (1997g). Human Information
Processing. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666081]
Smith, D. J. (1997h). Neuroanatomy for Students of Communication.
Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 190066609X - out of print]
Smith, D. J. and Stringer, C.B. (1997). Functional
Periodicity in Biological Information Processing Architectures. Cardiff:
UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666073]
Smith, D. J. (1998d). Applied Cognitive
Psychology. Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666103]
Smith D. J. (1999c). Freudian Structures in the
Computational Mind: Some Lessons from the Study of Ritual Sacrifice.
Cardiff: UWIC. [ISBN: 1900666111] [Transcript of paper presented 15th April 1999 to the 13th Annual Conference
of the History and Philosophy of Psychology Section of the British
Psychological Society, York.]