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'''Chris James Thornton''',<br/>
a British computer scientist and lecturer in the Department of Informatics at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Sussex University of Sussex],
and formerly a lecturer in the department of [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]] at the [[University of Edinburgh]].
He holds a BA in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics economics], a M.Sc in computer science and a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence <ref>[[Chris J. Thornton]], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QBJBsuMAAAAJ Benedict Du Boulay] ('''1992'''). ''[https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780792318682 Artificial Intelligence Through Search]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]</ref>.
His research interests around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory information theory] and [[Cognition|cognitive science]] include [[Learning|machine learning]],
[[Neural Networks|neural networks]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression data compression],
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_creativity computational creativity], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction problem of induction],
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity Kolmogorov complexity], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_prediction sequence prediction],
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_composition algorithmic music], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy analogy formation],
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_description_length minimum description length encoding],
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refinement_(computing) information refinement] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_concept_analysis formal concept analysis] <ref>[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cogs/seminars/previous/spring2011 Spring term 2011 : Previous COGS seminars : ... : Centre for Cognitive Science (COGS) : University of Sussex]</ref>.
One of his lectures deals with game playing, [[Minimax]], [[Negamax]] and [[Alpha-Beta]] <ref>[http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/crs/kr-ist/lec05a.html KR-IST - Lecture 5a Game playing with Minimax and Pruning]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.org/pid/06/2633.html dblp: Chris Thornton], includes [https://dl.acm.org/profile/99659668015 Chris Thornton], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_British_Columbia University of British Columbia]</ref>
==1987 ...==
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1987'''). ''Hypercuboid-Formation Behaviour of Two Learning Algorithms''. [[Conferences#IJCAI1987|IJCAI 1987]]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1988'''). ''Links between Content and Information-Content''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/ecai/ecai88.html#Thornton88 ECAI 1988] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_content Information content from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1988'''). ''A Computational Model for the Data Compression Metaphor''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/aimsa/aimsa1988.html#Thornton88 AIMSA 1988]
==1990 ...==
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1990'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-0643-3_155 The Kink Representation for Exclusive-OR]''. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-009-0643-3 International Neural Network Conference]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1992'''). ''Techniques in Computational Learning: An Introduction''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman_%26_Hall Chapman & Hall]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QBJBsuMAAAAJ Benedict Du Boulay] ('''1992'''). ''[https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780792318682 Artificial Intelligence Through Search]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1996'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-61291-2_65 Parity: The Problem that Won't Go Away]''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/ai/ai96.html#Thornton96 AI 1996]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1999'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1006577209231 What do Constructive Learners Really Learn?]'' [https://www.springer.com/journal/10462 Artificial Intelligence Review], Vol. 13
==2000 ...==
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2000'''). ''[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1097454.Truth_from_Trash Truth from Trash: How Learning Makes Sense]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press Bradford Books] <ref>[[Jean Hayes Michie]] ('''2001'''). ''[https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1599/0 Machine Learning and Light Relief: A Review of Truth from Trash]''. [[AAAI#AIMAG|AI Magazine]], Vol. 22 No. 4, [http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/download/1599/1498 pdf]</ref>
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2003'''). ''[https://content.iospress.com/articles/intelligent-data-analysis/ida00129 Indirect sensing through abstractive learning]''. [https://dblp.org/db/journals/ida/ida7.html#Thornton03 Intelligent Data Analysis], Vol. 7, No. 3
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/27780/ Principled Exploitation of Behavioural Coupling]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Experimental_and_Theoretical_Artificial_Intelligence Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 18, No. 3
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2009'''). ''Self-redundancy in Music''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/dagstuhl/P9291.html#Thornton09 Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings: Computational Creativity], [https://core.ac.uk/reader/62914630 pdf]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2009'''). ''[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21585510/ Representation Recovers Information]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_Science_(journal) Cognitive Science], Vol. 33, No. 8
==2010 ...==
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2011'''). ''Naive Inference viewed as Computation''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2011.html#Thornton11 CogSci 2011], [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.368.2558 citeseerx]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2011'''). ''Is there any Need to Mention Induction?'' [https://dblp.org/db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2011.html#Thornton11a CogSci 2011], [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/talks/mention-induction.pdf slides as pdf]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2012'''). ''[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Fuzzy-Memory-Theory-and-its-Use-in-Cognitive-Thorton/0bd93238e0229bf633296d755ad51e06671f4346 Fuzzy Memory Theory and its Use in Cognitive Science]''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2012.html#Thornton12 CogSci 2012]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2013'''). ''A New Way of Linking Information Theory with Cognitive Science''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2013.html#Thornton13a CogSci 2013], [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.432.8733 citeseerx]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2014'''). ''Infotropism as the underlying principle of perceptual organization''. [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/papers/underlying-infotropism.pdf pdf]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2016'''). ''Predictive processing is Turing complete: A new view of computation in the brain''. [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/drafts/draft-o.pdf pdf], [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/demos/PP-TMs.mp4 mp4]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2017'''). ''Predictive processing simplified: The infotropic machine''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognition Brain and Cognition], Vol. 112, [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/papers/pred-proc-simplified.pdf pdf], [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/demos/bpp.mp4 mp4]
==2020 ...==
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2021'''). ''[https://europepmc.org/article/MED/34056760 Extensional Superposition and Its Relation to Compositionality in Language and Thought]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_Science_(journal) Cognitive Science], Vol. 45, No. 5
=External Links=
* [https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p2684-chris-thornton Chris Thornton Profile | University of Sussex]
* [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/ Chris Thornton]
* [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/crs/ml/lec01a.html Machine Learning - Lecture 1: Introduction to the Topic]
* [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/crs/kr-ist/ Intelligent Systems Techniques (MSc) and Knowledge and Reasoning (UG)]
* [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/crs/kr-ist/lec05a.html KR-IST - Lecture 5a Game playing with Minimax and Pruning]
=References=
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[[FILE:ChrisJThornton.jpg|border|right|thumb| Chris Thornton <ref>[http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/ Chris Thornton]</ref> ]]
'''Chris James Thornton''',<br/>
a British computer scientist and lecturer in the Department of Informatics at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Sussex University of Sussex],
and formerly a lecturer in the department of [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]] at the [[University of Edinburgh]].
He holds a BA in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economics economics], a M.Sc in computer science and a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence <ref>[[Chris J. Thornton]], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QBJBsuMAAAAJ Benedict Du Boulay] ('''1992'''). ''[https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780792318682 Artificial Intelligence Through Search]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]</ref>.
His research interests around [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_theory information theory] and [[Cognition|cognitive science]] include [[Learning|machine learning]],
[[Neural Networks|neural networks]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_compression data compression],
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_creativity computational creativity], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_induction problem of induction],
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolmogorov_complexity Kolmogorov complexity], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_prediction sequence prediction],
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Algorithmic_composition algorithmic music], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analogy analogy formation],
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minimum_description_length minimum description length encoding],
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refinement_(computing) information refinement] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_concept_analysis formal concept analysis] <ref>[http://www.sussex.ac.uk/cogs/seminars/previous/spring2011 Spring term 2011 : Previous COGS seminars : ... : Centre for Cognitive Science (COGS) : University of Sussex]</ref>.
One of his lectures deals with game playing, [[Minimax]], [[Negamax]] and [[Alpha-Beta]] <ref>[http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/crs/kr-ist/lec05a.html KR-IST - Lecture 5a Game playing with Minimax and Pruning]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[https://dblp.org/pid/06/2633.html dblp: Chris Thornton], includes [https://dl.acm.org/profile/99659668015 Chris Thornton], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_British_Columbia University of British Columbia]</ref>
==1987 ...==
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1987'''). ''Hypercuboid-Formation Behaviour of Two Learning Algorithms''. [[Conferences#IJCAI1987|IJCAI 1987]]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1988'''). ''Links between Content and Information-Content''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/ecai/ecai88.html#Thornton88 ECAI 1988] <ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_content Information content from Wikipedia]</ref>
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1988'''). ''A Computational Model for the Data Compression Metaphor''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/aimsa/aimsa1988.html#Thornton88 AIMSA 1988]
==1990 ...==
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1990'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-94-009-0643-3_155 The Kink Representation for Exclusive-OR]''. [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-94-009-0643-3 International Neural Network Conference]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1992'''). ''Techniques in Computational Learning: An Introduction''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapman_%26_Hall Chapman & Hall]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]], [https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=QBJBsuMAAAAJ Benedict Du Boulay] ('''1992'''). ''[https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9780792318682 Artificial Intelligence Through Search]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springer_Science%2BBusiness_Media Springer]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1996'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/3-540-61291-2_65 Parity: The Problem that Won't Go Away]''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/ai/ai96.html#Thornton96 AI 1996]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''1999'''). ''[https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1006577209231 What do Constructive Learners Really Learn?]'' [https://www.springer.com/journal/10462 Artificial Intelligence Review], Vol. 13
==2000 ...==
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2000'''). ''[https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1097454.Truth_from_Trash Truth from Trash: How Learning Makes Sense]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_Press Bradford Books] <ref>[[Jean Hayes Michie]] ('''2001'''). ''[https://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/view/1599/0 Machine Learning and Light Relief: A Review of Truth from Trash]''. [[AAAI#AIMAG|AI Magazine]], Vol. 22 No. 4, [http://www.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/aimagazine/article/download/1599/1498 pdf]</ref>
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2003'''). ''[https://content.iospress.com/articles/intelligent-data-analysis/ida00129 Indirect sensing through abstractive learning]''. [https://dblp.org/db/journals/ida/ida7.html#Thornton03 Intelligent Data Analysis], Vol. 7, No. 3
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2006'''). ''[http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/27780/ Principled Exploitation of Behavioural Coupling]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journal_of_Experimental_and_Theoretical_Artificial_Intelligence Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 18, No. 3
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2009'''). ''Self-redundancy in Music''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/dagstuhl/P9291.html#Thornton09 Dagstuhl Seminar Proceedings: Computational Creativity], [https://core.ac.uk/reader/62914630 pdf]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2009'''). ''[https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21585510/ Representation Recovers Information]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_Science_(journal) Cognitive Science], Vol. 33, No. 8
==2010 ...==
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2011'''). ''Naive Inference viewed as Computation''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2011.html#Thornton11 CogSci 2011], [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.368.2558 citeseerx]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2011'''). ''Is there any Need to Mention Induction?'' [https://dblp.org/db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2011.html#Thornton11a CogSci 2011], [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/talks/mention-induction.pdf slides as pdf]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2012'''). ''[https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Fuzzy-Memory-Theory-and-its-Use-in-Cognitive-Thorton/0bd93238e0229bf633296d755ad51e06671f4346 Fuzzy Memory Theory and its Use in Cognitive Science]''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2012.html#Thornton12 CogSci 2012]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2013'''). ''A New Way of Linking Information Theory with Cognitive Science''. [https://dblp.org/db/conf/cogsci/cogsci2013.html#Thornton13a CogSci 2013], [http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.432.8733 citeseerx]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2014'''). ''Infotropism as the underlying principle of perceptual organization''. [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/papers/underlying-infotropism.pdf pdf]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2016'''). ''Predictive processing is Turing complete: A new view of computation in the brain''. [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/drafts/draft-o.pdf pdf], [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/demos/PP-TMs.mp4 mp4]
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2017'''). ''Predictive processing simplified: The infotropic machine''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_and_Cognition Brain and Cognition], Vol. 112, [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/papers/pred-proc-simplified.pdf pdf], [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/demos/bpp.mp4 mp4]
==2020 ...==
* [[Chris J. Thornton]] ('''2021'''). ''[https://europepmc.org/article/MED/34056760 Extensional Superposition and Its Relation to Compositionality in Language and Thought]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_Science_(journal) Cognitive Science], Vol. 45, No. 5
=External Links=
* [https://profiles.sussex.ac.uk/p2684-chris-thornton Chris Thornton Profile | University of Sussex]
* [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/ Chris Thornton]
* [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/crs/ml/lec01a.html Machine Learning - Lecture 1: Introduction to the Topic]
* [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/crs/kr-ist/ Intelligent Systems Techniques (MSc) and Knowledge and Reasoning (UG)]
* [http://users.sussex.ac.uk/~christ/crs/kr-ist/lec05a.html KR-IST - Lecture 5a Game playing with Minimax and Pruning]
=References=
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