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Josh Bongard

19 December 2008

Researchers are recognizing that intelligence cannot be reduced to abstract algorithms, but must be couched in a larger context: be it the physical properties of neurons or a physical body.

Author

Josh Bongard
Computer Science, University of Vermont
http://www.cs.uvm.edu/?jbongard/

Josh Bongard is an assistant professor in the department of Computer Science at the College of Engineering and Mathematical Sciences, University of Vermont. He previously served as a postdoctoral associate in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Cornell University, NY. He obtained his doctorate from the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

References

A. Clark, An embodied cognitive science?, Trends in Cognitive Sciences 3 (9), pp. 345-351, 1999.

R. Llinas, I of the Vortex: From Neurons to Self., Cambridge: MIT Press, 2001.

J. Bongard, V. Zykov and H. Lipson, Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling, Science 314, pp. 1118-1121, 2006.

R. Pfeifer and J. Bongard, How the Body Shapes the Way we Think: A New View of Intelligence, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007.

DOI: 10.2417/1200812.1420

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