Peter J. Bentley

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name = Peter J. Bentley


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birth_place = Colchester,UK
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nationality = British
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field = Computer Science
work_institutions = University College London
KAIST
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doctoral_students = Jungwon Kim
Rob Shipman
Sanjeev Kumar
Supiya Ujjin
David Basanta
Tim Gordon
Siavash Haroun Mahdavi
Ramona Behravan
Udi Schlessinger
known_for = Digital Biology
prizes = Edge of Computation Prize Nominee (2005)
religion = atheist
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Dr Peter John Bentley (born May 16, 1972) is a British author and computer scientist based at University College London.

Peter J. Bentley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL and a Collaborating Professor at KAIST. He is also a popular science author and consultant.

Born in Colchester, England, he achieved a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Essex (supervised by Edward Tsang) and a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Design from the University of Huddersfield at the age of 24. His doctorate thesis was entitled "Generic Evolutionary Design of Solid Objects using a Genetic Algorithm."

Since 1997 he has performed research into evolutionary computation, artificial life, swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, artificial neural networks and other types of biologically-inspired computing, which he terms "Digital Biology" at the Department of Computer Science, University College London where he runs the Digital Biology Interest Group. He participates in science festivals and public events, such as the debate on Complexity and Evolution held at the Natural History Museum in July 2007 with Richard Dawkins, Steve Jones (biologist), Lewis Wolpert. His research has been described in several articles of New Scientist. His recent research focusses on morphological computation and novel architectures designed for natural computation based on evolution, developmental and self-assembling systems.

Popular books

* "The Undercover Scientist: Investigating the Mishaps of Everyday Life", ISBN 978-1-847-94523-5
* "The Book of Numbers: The Secret of Numbers and How They Changed the World", ISBN 1554073618
* "Digital Biology. How nature is transforming our technology and our lives", ISBN 0743204476

Academic books

* "Evolutionary Design by Computers", ISBN 1-55860-605-X
* "Creative Evolutionary Systems", ISBN 1-55860-673-4
* "On Growth, Form and Computers", ISBN 0-12-428765-4
* "The PhD Application Handbook", ISBN 0335219527

Academic proceedings

* "Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference (ICARIS 2008)", ISBN 9783540850717
* "Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference (ECAL 2005)", ISBN 3-540-28848-1
* "Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (ICARIS 2005)", ISBN 3-540-28175-4
* "Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference (ICARIS 2004)", ISBN 3-540-23097-1
* "Evolvability, Genetics & Development in Natural and Constructed Systems: Abstracts of the EPSRC Evolvability Network Symposium", August 2003
* "Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Second International Conference (ICARIS 2003)", ISBN 3-540-40766-9
* "Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the First International Conference (ICARIS)", ISBN 1-902671-32-5
* "Proceedings of the AISB99 Symposium on Creative Evolutionary Systems", ISBN 1 902956 03 6
* "AID 1998 1st Workshop Notes on Evolutionary Design", July 1998

ee also

* Artificial life
* Evolutionary Computation
* Norman Packard
* Thomas S. Ray
* David E. Goldberg
* John Koza

References

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* cite web|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/07/17/scilead117.xml|title= New Theories of Evolution|accessdate=September 12|accessyear=2008
* cite web|url=http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/evodebate.html|title= Public Debate on Complexity and Evolution|accessdate=September 12|accessyear=2008
* cite web|url=http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/igdigitalbiology/index.html|title= Digital Biology Interest Group at UCL|accessdate=September 12|accessyear=2008
* cite web|url=http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99992242|title= Insects make a buzz on the music scene. Article in New Scientist, 6 May 2002|accessdate=September 12|accessyear=2008
* cite web|url=http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99994075|title= Robot spy can survive battlefield damage, Article in New Scientist, 20 August 2003|accessdate=September 12|accessyear=2008
* cite web|url=http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/seedsarticle.html|title= New Scientist Feature "Software Seeds", March 6 2004|accessdate=September 12|accessyear=2008
* cite web|url=http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99996019|title= Fast cars could be tuned by evolution. Article in New Scientist, June 17, 2004, March 6 2004|accessdate=September 12|accessyear=2008

External links

* [http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/ Peter Bentley's home page at UCL]
* [http://www.peterjbentley.com/ Peter Bentley's book page]
* [http://apps.peterjbentley.com/Blog/ Peter Bentley's book blog]
* [http://www.peterjbentley.com/R4doc.ram BBC Radio 4 documentary "Natural Technology" broadcast May 2001 featuring Peter Bentley]
* [http://www.abc.net.au/rn/science/ss/stories/s1292193.htm Interview with Peter Bentley]
* [http://www.randomhouse.co.uk/catalog/author.htm?authorID=60907 Random House author biography of Peter Bentley]

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NAME= Bentley, Peter John
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Computer Science
DATE OF BIRTH= May 16, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH= Colchester
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