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Josh Bongard (@DoctorJosh) |
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205 Farrell Hall, Burlington, VT 05405 |
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Tel: (802) 656-4665; Fax: (802) 656-0696 |
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Curriculum Vitae: PDF |
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| New | Research | Teaching | Media | Publications | The Zoo | PhD Thesis | MSc Thesis | Misc |
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``I, For One.'' My contribution to this year's Edge question. |
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Published, Nov 6, 2015: M Wagy & J Bongard (2015). Combining computational and social effort for collaborative problem solving. PLoS ONE, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0142524. |
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Want to learn more about evolutionary robotics? Try our Massively Open Online Course (MOOC) here. |
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Design a robot in six seconds. Try DotBot. |
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Received a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from Barack Obama. White House press release here. UVM story on the award here. |
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Want to perform your own evolutionary robotics experiment? Try Ludobots. |
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Keynote lecture at the Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) conference. |
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Bongard J. (2011). Morphological change in machines accelerates the evolution of robust behavior. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
108(4): 1234-1239. Wired, New Scientist coverage of this work. [YouTube] Overview movie. |
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NSF CAREER grant Investigating the Ultimate Mechanisms of Cognition awarded (June 2010). |
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Japanese translation released: June, 2010 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 |
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Bongard J. C. (2010). The utility of evolving simulated robot morphology increases with task complexity for object manipulation. Artificial Life, DOI: 10.1162/artl.2010.Bongard.024. |
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[PDF] Inaugural AI Redux column for IEEE Computer Magazine on Biologically Inspired Computing. |
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[PDF] The resilient machine project cited by Esquire magazine as one of the 'Six Ideas That Will Change the World'. |
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[HTML] [PDF] Named one of MIT Technology Review's TR35 for 2007: The 35 Young Innovators under 35. |
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[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. |
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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. |
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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
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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. |
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I was one of five recipients of the 2007 Microsoft New Faculty Fellowships. |