Josh Bongard

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nationality = Canadian
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fields = Robotics, Artificial Intelligence
workplaces = Cornell University
University of Vermont
alma_mater = McMaster University
University of Sussex
University of Zurich
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Josh Bongard is a professor in the University of Vermont. He received his Bachelors degree in Computer Science from McMaster University, Canada, his Masters degree from the University of Sussex, UK, and his PhD from the University of Zurich, Switzerland. He served as a postdoctoral associate under Hod Lipson in the Computational Synthesis Laboratory at Cornell University from 2003 to 2006.

He is the co-author of the popular science book entitled "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence", MIT Press, November 2006. (With Rolf Pfeifer) ISBN 0-262-16239-3.

elected Publications

Bongard J. and Lipson H.(2007) [http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0609476104v1 Automated reverse engineering of nonlinear dynamical systems] . "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences", 104(24): 9943-9948.

Bongard, J., Zykov, V., Lipson, H. (2006) [http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/314/5802/1118 Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling] . " [http://www.sciencemag.org Science] ", 314: 1118-1121.

Bongard J. and Lipson H. (2005) Active Coevolutionary Learning of Deterministic Finite Automata, "Journal of Machine Learning Research", 6(Oct): 1651-1678.

Bongard J. and Lipson H. (2005) Nonlinear system identification using coevolution of models and tests, "IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation", 9(4): 361-384.

Pfeifer, R., F. Iida and J. Bongard (2005) New Robotics: Design Principles for Intelligent Systems, "Artificial Life, Special Issue on New Robotics, Evolution and Embodied Cognition", 11(1-2): 99-120.

References

* [http://www.cs.uvm.edu/~jbongard/ Josh Bongard's web site]