Welcome to the Web Page of L. Andrew Coward

I am a research fellow in the Department of Computer Science in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the Australian National University. As can be seen from my cv, I have wide experience in the design of operationally complex real time control systems. The architectural form of such systems is strongly constrained by the combination of operational complexity, limited information handling resources, and the need to modify features without excessive side effects on other features.

My primary research objective is to understand the cognitive behaviour of the human brain in terms of neurophysiology, and to build electronic systems with similar behaviour. The starting point is that the combination of cognitive complexity, limited information handling resources and the need to learn without excessive interference with prior learning results in natural selection pressures constraining mammal brains into a specific architectural form called the recommendation architecture, although there is minimal resemblance between that form and the form for operationally complex electronic system architectures.

The physical form and processes of a system with the recommendation architecture strongly resemble the physiological structures and processes of the human brain.

My published work includes papers, book chapters and a book. Late drafts of published papers can be downloaded.

A simple electronic demonstration version of a system with the recommendation architecture can be downloaded here.

e-mail: andrewc@cs.anu.edu.au

Mail: Department of Computer Science

Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology

Australian National University

Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia