Person

Turner, Jeremy Owen

1974

PhD Candidate at Simon Fraser University's School of Interactive Arts and Technology (Vancouver, Canada); sessional Professor at Simon Fraser University's Cognitive Science program; research focus on the subjects of: Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), cognitive science (cognitive architectures) and virtual character design; performance artist, music composer, media-arts historian and art-critic within virtual worlds and video games; MA about avatar-design in Second Life and an interdisciplinary BA (on Art-History and Music Composition). PhD research explores developing cognitive architectural heuristics for virtual agents (automated characters/NPCs) in virtual worlds and video games