Dr. Joel P. W. Pitt
Joel P. W. Pitt,
Ph.D.,
BSc (Hons.)
is a multidisciplinary scientist who has contributed to the fields of
bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, and ecology.
His
Ph.D. (from
Lincoln University, New Zealand) involved the development of a
spatially
explicit stochastic simulation model for investigating large-scale
spread of invasive species across real landscapes. Joel earned his
B.Sc. with first class Honors from the University of Canterbury where
he majored in computational biology and artificial intelligence. During
his study he also facilitated the research of several colleagues by
applying artificial neural network categorization and classification to
ecological data, and by developing novel search algorithms for
micro-satellite DNA sequences.
In 2008, Joel started contract research and development on the OpenCog
open source AGI platform for The Singularity Institute for Artificial
Intelligence. He also constructed country-wide ecological simulations
for a government research institute in New Zealand. More recently he has
worked on developing a media hosting solution with Django and Amazon S3,
and has served on the Humanity+ board of directors.
He is the author of
Modeling the spread of invasive species across heterogeneous
landscapes and coauthor of
OpenCogBot: Achieving Generally Intelligent Virtual Agent Control and
Humanoid Robotics via Cognitive Synergy,
Economic Attention Networks:
Associative Memory and Resource Allocation
for General Intelligence,
Relative roles of climatic suitability and anthropogenic influence in
determining the pattern of spread in a global invader,
Predicting Argentine ant spread over the heterogeneous landscape
using a
spatially explicit stochastic model,
High frequency of microsatellites in S. cerevisiae meiotic
recombination hotspots, and
Association of poly-purine/poly-pyrimidine sequences with meiotic
recombination hot spots.
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full list of his publications!
Watch
NNW1 — Consciousness, AGI, and the Singularity,
Dr. Joel Pitt with Dr. Ben Goertzel — OpenCog Software
Framework,
Dr. Joel Pitt — Probabilistic Logical Networks in
OpenCog,
Dr. Joel Pitt — Attractor Neural Nets and Economic Attention
Allocation,
Speed of Sound,
Drifting through the OpenCog AtomSpace, and
3D Hopfield network visualization.
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