Research interests include:
- educated in Italy and South Africa
- arrived in UK (late 50s)
- joined Standard Telephone and Cable (STC) as a graduate engineer
- lecturer at Queen Mary College, London (1961)
- Reader in Electronics at University of Kent (1968)
- Professor of Electronics at Brunel University (1974)
- Professor of Management of Information Technology at Imperial College (1984)
- Head of Electrical Engineering and Gabor Professor of Neural Systems Engineering at Imperial College (1988)
- Fellow of Royal Academy of Engineering (1988)
- Pro-rector of External Relations at Imperial College (1997)
- ''The World in My Mind, My Mind In The World: Key Mechanisms of Consciousness in Humans, Animals and Machines''published by Imprint Academic, 2005.
- ''Impossible Minds: My neurons, My Consciousness'' published by Imperial College Press 1996 (ISBN 1860940366).
- I. Aleksander (1996) Neuroconsciousness: A theoretical framework, Neurocomputing, vol. 12, no.2-3, pp. 91-111.
- N. Sales, R. Evans, I. Aleksander (1996) Successful naive representation grounding, ArtificialIntelligence Review, vol. 10,no.1-2, pp.83-102.
- C. Browne, I. Aleksander (1996) Digital general neural units with controlled transitionprobabilities, Electronics Letters, vol. 32, no. 9, pp.824-825 April.
- N. P. Bradshaw, I. Aleksander (1996) Improving the generalisation of the N-tuple classifier using the effective VCdimension, Electronics Letters Vol: 32 Iss: 20 p. 1904-5 26 September.
- I. Aleksander, C. Browne, R. Evans, N. Sales (1997) Conscious and Neural Cognizers: A Review and Some RecentApproaches, Neural Networks, Vol. 10, No. 7, pp 1303-1316.
- I. Aleksander (1998) From WISARD to MAGNUS: A Family of Weightless Neural Machines, In: James Austin (Ed),RAM-Based Neural Networks, London: World Scientific, pp 18-30.
- I. Aleksander (1999) Evolutionary Checkers, Nature, Vol. 402, Dec. 1999, pp857-860.
- I. Aleksander (2000) Brain Inspired Computation, RSA Journal. Vol 4, No. 4, pp 74 - 78
- ''How to Build a Mind'', Weidenfeld and Nicolson 2000 {Link without Title} .
- ''Axioms and Tests for the Presence of Minimal Consciousness in Agents'', Journal Of Consciousness Studies 2003 {Link without Title} .
- design of the world's first neural pattern recognition system, the WISARD (marketed by CRS, Wokingham) in the 1980s
- MAGNUS neurocomputational system (marketed by NTS as Neural Representation Modeller)
- Outstanding Achievement Medal for Informatics by the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (2000)
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