A software engineer and computer scientist by training, I am a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Cognitive Systems, Technische Universität München. My particular speciality is cognitive architectures but I also work in computer vision.

In 2010 I co-authored a book entitled A Roadmap for Cognitive Development in Humanoid Robots, published as Volume 11 of Springer's Cognitive Systems Monographs series. This book brings together insights from psychology, neuroscience, and computational modelleling to explain what's required for a robot to develop cognitive capabilities.

I spent much of 2011 using the roadmap to design and implement a cognitive architecture which focusses on autonomous development and learning.

One of my main goals for 2012 is to complete this cognitive architecture and to incorporate into it an information-theoretic mathematical model of growth and development to drive the system's autonomous operation through a process of circular causality.

I am a keen road cyclist, I write software whenever I get the chance, and my Myers-Briggs Type is INFJ.

I can be contacted at davidvernon.eu.