JCB 2003 Josh Bongard

    Morphology, Evolution & Cognition Laboratory

    Assistant Professor

    Department of Computer Science

    University of Vermont

    329 Votey Hall, Burlington, VT 05405

    Tel: (802) 656-4665; Cell: (802) 578-4445; Fax: (802) 656-0696

    Curriculum Vitae: PDF

    josh.bongard@uvm.edu
    New Research Teaching Media Publications The Zoo PhD Thesis MSc Thesis Misc
    [PDF] Bongard, J. (2008) Behavior Chaining: Incremental Behavior Integration for Evolutionary Robotics, Artificial Life XI, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA. [Source Code] [Video1] [Video2]
    [PDF] The resilient machine project cited by Esquire magazine as one of the 'Six Ideas That Will Change the World'.
    [HTML] [PDF] Named one of MIT Technology Review's TR35 for 2007: The 35 Young Innovators under 35.
    [HTML] [PDF] Bongard J. and Lipson H.(2007). Automated reverse engineering of nonlinear dynamical systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 104(24): 9943-9948.
    [HTML] [PDF] Bongard, J., Zykov, V., Lipson, H. (2006). Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling. Science, 314: 1118-1121.

    More information about this project can be found here; a Perspective article on this work by C. Adami can be found here.

    [HTML] [PDF] Conduit, R., Adami, C., Lipson, H., Zykov, V. and Bongard, J. (2007). To sleep, perchance to dream. Science, 315: 1219-1220.

    Released: November 1, 2006

    How the Body Shapes the Way We Think:

    A New View of Intelligence

    Rolf Pfeifer, Josh Bongard

    Foreward by Rodney Brooks

    Illustrations by Shun Iwasawa

    With a contribution by Simon Grand

     

    From MIT Press     Order from Amazon.com.    Read the review in Nature.

     

    Summary: How could the body influence our thinking when it seems obvious that the brain controls the body? In How the Body Shapes the Way We Think, Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard demonstrate that thought is not independent of the body but is tightly constrained, and at the same time enabled, by it. They argue that the kinds of thoughts we are capable of have their foundation in our embodiment--in our morphology and the material properties of our bodies.

    I was one of five recipients of the 2007 Microsoft New Faculty Fellowships.