Abstract: After discussion of Chris' background, the talk will move on to his research, and later onto a discussion about programming, jobs, and jobs in AI. The research discussion will focus on Chris' two main areas of research, neural processing and natural language processing. Neural processing will discuss neurons, cell assemblies, cell assembly robots, neuro-cognitive models and the Human Brain Project. The natural language processing section will discuss information retrieval, conversational agents, and text extraction. Chris will also discuss other AI project he's worked on, and other AI research in the University. The talk will conclude with a discussion about programming, jobs, and jobs in AI. Biography: Dr Chris Huyck is Middlesex's Professor of Artificial Intelligence. He received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1994 for work in Natural Language Parsing. He has on the order of 100 publications, and has been teaching Computer Science at Middlesex since 1998. He is currently working on the EU funded Human Brain Project. See his page at http://www.cwa.mdx.ac.uk/chris/chrisroot.html