Josh Bongard
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Josh Bongard 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 currently an assistant professor at the University of Vermont.
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.
Selected Publications
Bongard, J., Zykov, V., Lipson, H. (2006) Resilient machines through continuous self-modeling. 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.
