Bruce MacLennan’s Home Page

It would be catastrophic to become a nation of technically competent people who have lost the ability to think critically, to examine themselves, and to respect the humanity and diversity of others.
       — Martha Nussbaum, Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education

Bruce J. MacLennan

Associate Professor

Dept. of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science (see also old Dept. of CS website)

University of Tennessee

Directory

• Ways to contact me
• Research
• Teaching
• Links

Ways to contact me

Email: MacLennan@utk.edu

WWW: http://www.cs.utk.edu/~mclennan/ [sic]

Phone: (865) 974-5067

Fax: (865) 974-4404

US Mail:

Bruce J. MacLennan
Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
The University of Tennessee
203 Claxton Complex
1122 Volunteer Blvd.
Knoxville, TN 37996-3450

Research

Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation

Neural Information Processing

Connectionist Knowledge Representation

Emergent Computation

Teaching

• CS 311 — Discrete Structures for Computer Science (Spring 2008)
  
• CS 420 & CS 594 — Biologically Inspired-Computation (coming in Fall 2008)
  
• Research Opportunities for Students [under revision]
  
• Information for my MS and PhD Students
• Courses Previously Taught
  

Links

• MacLennan links
• Research Related Links
• Professional Societies

MacLennan links:

• Vita
  
• Recent reprints, preprints and technical reports.  See my research interests for additional publications. 
• Books by me (comments invited).
• From Pythagoras to the Digital Computer: The Intellectual Roots of Symbolic Artificial Intelligence (Vol. I of Word and Flux) book in progress — UTK CS department local access only, or use password access. All others please send me mail.
• Myth of Pandora: my translation of Hesiod’s misogynist version from the Works and Days, on Diotima (Materials for the Study of Women & Gender in the Ancient World).

Research Related Links:

• Current Contents online
• NCSTRL - Networked CS Technical Report Library
• Institute for Advanced Studies, Collegium Budapest
• International Journal of Nanotechnology and Molecular Computation (B. J. MacLennan, Editor-in-Chief) home page.
  

Professional Societies:

• AAAS (American Association for the Advancement of Science) homepage and Science On-Line.
  • Evolution on the Front Line (from AAAS).
  • Statement on Climate Change (from AAAS).
    
• IEEE Home Page including the IEEE Computer Society and the Neural Networks Society
• International Society for Nanoscale Science, Computation and Engineering (ISNSCE)
  
• The International Neural Network Society (INNS)
• International Society for Neoplatonic Studies (ISNS)
• Society for Ancient Greek Philosophy (SAGP)
• International Association for Greek Philosophy (IAGP)
• American Association of University Professors (AAUP)
  • Selected Statements from “the Redbook” (Policy Documents and Reports)
  • UTK  AAUP  chapter

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 Bruce MacLennan / MacLennan@utk.edu
Last update: 2008-04-25.