Josh Bongard
@DoctorJosh
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Robotics professor at the University of Vermont. Also into xenobots, crowdsourcing, evolution, machine learning, artificial intelligence.
Joined April 2008
Discussing computer designed organisms (AKA "Xenobots") with CNN anchor @FWhitfield. Joint work with @drmichaellevin, Douglas Blackiston and @Kriegmerica. https://t.co/nr6YSDokkS
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The @ALifeConf had just wrapped up and I couldn’t be more grateful and happier! Thank you to everyone for making it special and a huge success! #alife2025 #artificiallife #kyoto #ciphersoflife #crosslabs
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New paper now out in Physics Report: If you're interested in information theory, complex systems, and emergent properties, this is the paper for you: a comprehensive review paper designed to bring anyone up to speed on information theory for complex systems scientists.
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The caveats and context:
New xenobot-adjacent paper! This one is going to raise some eyebrows, so I want to explain the details before people get all worked-up about the title. Identification of brain-like complex information architectures in embryonic tissue of Xenopus laevis organoids 1/N
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New paper dropped! Led by @ThosVarley and Pai Vaibhav, we show that flows of information within a #xenobot resemble flows of information observed in adult human brains. Thomas provides caveats and context below. w/ @drmichaellevin, Caitlin Grasso, & Jeantine Lunshof.
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Lab member Amanda Bertschinger describes how symbolic regression can help yield more predictable robots @ALifeConf. #ALife2025
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Lab member Piper Welch describes attempts to realize polycomputation in hardware @ALifeConf in Kyoto. (A primer on polycomputation: https://t.co/fUkMUavQtE)
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For those interested in our growing body of work on "polycomputation", here's my attempt to summarize it in 40 minutes: https://t.co/yWDlpy7p9I
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Lab member Krishna Srinivasan gives his first academic presentation at the #ALIFE2025 conference. Go Krishna!
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New xenobot-adjacent paper! This one is going to raise some eyebrows, so I want to explain the details before people get all worked-up about the title. Identification of brain-like complex information architectures in embryonic tissue of Xenopus laevis organoids 1/N
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Lab member Nate Gaylinn discussing evolutionary ramps and ratchets @ALifeConf in Kyoto Japan... #ALife2025 (Publication coming soon)
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Our recent seminar with @drmichaellevin, @tarinziyaee and @DoctorJosh is available here: https://t.co/maKfDn5iBd
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Upcoming online seminar tomorrow with @drmichaellevin, @tarinziyaee and @DoctorJosh! Register: https://t.co/2ejY07LyUL
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Be part of the next generation of virtual creatures: Enter the 2025 Virtual Creatures Competition (VCC)! Held at #ALIFE2025, the #VCC is an annual competition to showcase recent research in the field of artificial life. Judges and prizes to be announced soon. ⬇️⬇️
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Today’s Humanoid Robots Look Remarkable—but There’s a Design Flaw Holding Them BackBeyond brains, robots desperately need smarter bodies https://t.co/io9Qlp1NG8
singularityhub.com
Beyond brains, robots desperately need smarter bodies.
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Maggie Boden's passing is a sad loss to many of us personally, and to cognitive science and philosophy as a whole. This obituary, by Michael Rosenwald, was published the other day in the New York Times:
nytimes.com
A cognitive scientist, she used the language of computers to explore the nature of human thought and creativity, offering prescient insights about A.I.
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