Marco Dorigo

Marco Dorigo (born 26 August 1961, in Milan, Italy) is a research director for the Belgian Funds for Scientific Research (FNRS), a professor in the computer science department of the University of Paderborn and a co-director of IRIDIA, the artificial intelligence lab of the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He is the proponent of the "ant colony optimization" metaheuristic (see his book published by MIT Press in 2004), and one of the founders of the swarm intelligence research field. Recently he got involved with research in "swarm robotics": he is the coordinator of "Swarm-bots: Swarms of self-assembling artefacts" and of "Swarmanoid: Towards humanoid robotic swarms" two swarm robotics projects funded by the Future and Emerging Technologies Program of the European Commission.

For these contributions, in 2003 he was awarded the "Marie Curie Research Excellence Award" by the European Commission; on 22 November 2005, he was presented the "FNRS - Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in Applied Sciences" by the King of Belgium, Albert II; and in 2007 he received the "Cajastur International Prize for Soft Computing", awarded by the "Foundation for the Advancement of Soft Computing". He his the recipient of an ERC Advanced Grant (2010).

Publications (selected)

• Ant Colony Optimization with Thomas Stützle, MIT Press, 2004. (ISBN 0-262-04219-3)
• Swarm Intelligence : From Natural to Artificial Systems with Eric Bonabeau and Guy Theraulaz, Oxford University Press, 1999. (ISBN 0-19-513159-2)
• Robot Shaping with Marco Colombetti, MIT Press, 1998. (ISBN 0-262-04164-2)
• Ant Algorithms for discrete optimization with Gianni Di Caro and Luca Maria Gambardella, Artificial Life, Vol. 5, N. 2, 1999.

References

• "First EU Marie Curie Awards in recognition of world-class achievements in Europe", Marie Curie Research Excellence Awards, 2003
• "Belgian FNRS -- Dr A. De Leeuw-Damry-Bourlart award in Applied Sciences, 2005"
• "Cajastur International Prize for Soft Computing, 2007"

External links

• Professor Dorigo's Home Page
• Ant Colony Optimization Home Page
• Belgian Funds for Scientific Research (FNRS)

Persondata
Name	Dorigo, Marco
Alternative names
Short description	research director
Date of birth	26 August 1961
Place of birth	Milan, Italy
Date of death
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