Peter J. Bentley
Encyclopedia
Dr Peter John Bentley is a British
author
and computer scientist
based at University College London
.
Peter J. Bentley is an Honorary Reader and College Fellow at UCL
and a Collaborating Professor at KAIST
. He is also a popular science
author
and consultant
. He is a contributing editor for WIRED UK and was the monthly host of the Royal Institution
's cafe scientifique.
Born in Colchester
, England
, he achieved a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence
from the University of Essex
(supervised by Edward Tsang
) and a Ph.D.
in Evolutionary Design (supervised by Jonathan Wakefield) at the age of 24. His doctorate thesis was entitled Generic Evolutionary Design of Solid Objects using a Genetic Algorithm.
Since 1997 he has performed research into evolutionary computation
, artificial life
, swarm intelligence
, artificial immune systems, artificial neural networks and other types of biologically inspired computing, which he terms Digital Biology. He is head of the Digital Biology Interest Group at the Department of Computer Science, University College London
. He participates in science festivals and public events, such as the debate on Complexity and Evolution held at the Natural History Museum
in July 2007 with Richard Dawkins
, Steve Jones (biologist)
, Lewis Wolpert
. His research has been described in several articles of New Scientist
. His recent research focuses on morphological computation and novel architectures designed for natural computation based on evolution, developmental and self-assembling systems.
Most recently he has received publicity for his iPhone
application iStethoscope, which was developed in collaboration with cardiologists in USA. The app has been used to gather heart sounds
from people around the world in a research project to enable computers to diagnose heart disease
automatically using machine learning
.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
and computer scientist
Computer scientist
A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems....
based at University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
.
Peter J. Bentley is an Honorary Reader and College Fellow at UCL
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
and a Collaborating Professor at KAIST
KAIST
KAIST , is located in Daedeok Innopolis, Daejeon, South Korea. KAIST was established by the Korean government in 1971 as the nation's first research oriented science and engineering institution. The QS-The Times World University Rankings in the year of 2009 placed KAIST 69th overall and 21st in...
. He is also a popular science
Popular science
Popular science, sometimes called literature of science, is interpretation of science intended for a general audience. While science journalism focuses on recent scientific developments, popular science is broad-ranging, often written by scientists as well as journalists, and is presented in many...
author
Author
An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...
and consultant
Consultant
A consultant is a professional who provides professional or expert advice in a particular area such as management, accountancy, the environment, entertainment, technology, law , human resources, marketing, emergency management, food production, medicine, finance, life management, economics, public...
. He is a contributing editor for WIRED UK and was the monthly host of the Royal Institution
Royal Institution
The Royal Institution of Great Britain is an organization devoted to scientific education and research, based in London.-Overview:...
's cafe scientifique.
Born in Colchester
Colchester
Colchester is an historic town and the largest settlement within the borough of Colchester in Essex, England.At the time of the census in 2001, it had a population of 104,390. However, the population is rapidly increasing, and has been named as one of Britain's fastest growing towns. As the...
, England
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
, he achieved a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...
from the University of Essex
University of Essex
The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...
(supervised by Edward Tsang
Edward Tsang
Edward Tsang is a Computer Science professor at the University of Essex. He holds a first degree in Business Administration from the Chinese University of Hong Kong , and an MSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Essex...
) and a Ph.D.
Ph.D.
A Ph.D. is a Doctor of Philosophy, an academic degree.Ph.D. may also refer to:* Ph.D. , a 1980s British group*Piled Higher and Deeper, a web comic strip*PhD: Phantasy Degree, a Korean comic series* PhD Docbook renderer, an XML renderer...
in Evolutionary Design (supervised by Jonathan Wakefield) at the age of 24. His doctorate thesis was entitled Generic Evolutionary Design of Solid Objects using a Genetic Algorithm.
Since 1997 he has performed research into evolutionary computation
Evolutionary computation
In computer science, evolutionary computation is a subfield of artificial intelligence that involves combinatorial optimization problems....
, artificial life
Artificial life
Artificial life is a field of study and an associated art form which examine systems related to life, its processes, and its evolution through simulations using computer models, robotics, and biochemistry. The discipline was named by Christopher Langton, an American computer scientist, in 1986...
, swarm intelligence
Swarm intelligence
Swarm intelligence is the collective behaviour of decentralized, self-organized systems, natural or artificial. The concept is employed in work on artificial intelligence...
, artificial immune systems, artificial neural networks and other types of biologically inspired computing, which he terms Digital Biology. He is head of the Digital Biology Interest Group at the Department of Computer Science, University College London
University College London
University College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom and the oldest and largest constituent college of the federal University of London...
. He participates in science festivals and public events, such as the debate on Complexity and Evolution held at the Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum is one of three large museums on Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, England . Its main frontage is on Cromwell Road...
in July 2007 with Richard Dawkins
Richard Dawkins
Clinton Richard Dawkins, FRS, FRSL , known as Richard Dawkins, is a British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author...
, Steve Jones (biologist)
Steve Jones (biologist)
John Stephen Jones is a Welsh geneticist and from 1995 to 1999 and 2008 to June 2010 was Head of the Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London. His studies are conducted in the Galton Laboratory. He is also a television presenter and a prize-winning author on...
, Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert
Lewis Wolpert CBE FRS FRSL is a developmental biologist, author, and broadcaster.-Career:Wolpert was educated at the University of Witwatersrand , at Imperial College London, and at King's College London...
. His research has been described in several articles of New Scientist
New Scientist
New Scientist is a weekly non-peer-reviewed English-language international science magazine, which since 1996 has also run a website, covering recent developments in science and technology for a general audience. Founded in 1956, it is published by Reed Business Information Ltd, a subsidiary of...
. His recent research focuses on morphological computation and novel architectures designed for natural computation based on evolution, developmental and self-assembling systems.
Most recently he has received publicity for his iPhone
IPhone
The iPhone is a line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPhone was unveiled by Steve Jobs, then CEO of Apple, on January 9, 2007, and released on June 29, 2007...
application iStethoscope, which was developed in collaboration with cardiologists in USA. The app has been used to gather heart sounds
Heart sounds
Heart sounds, or heartbeats, are the noises generated by the beating heart and the resultant flow of blood through it...
from people around the world in a research project to enable computers to diagnose heart disease
Heart disease
Heart disease, cardiac disease or cardiopathy is an umbrella term for a variety of diseases affecting the heart. , it is the leading cause of death in the United States, England, Canada and Wales, accounting for 25.4% of the total deaths in the United States.-Types:-Coronary heart disease:Coronary...
automatically using machine learning
Machine learning
Machine learning, a branch of artificial intelligence, is a scientific discipline concerned with the design and development of algorithms that allow computers to evolve behaviors based on empirical data, such as from sensor data or databases...
.
Popular books
- The Undercover Scientist: Investigating the Mishaps of Everyday Life, ISBN 978-1-84794-523-5
- Why Sh*t Happens: The Science of a Really Bad Day, ISBN 978-1-59486-956-3 (US version of The Undercover Scientist)
- The Book of Numbers: The Secret of Numbers and How They Changed the World, ISBN 1-55407-361-8
- Digital Biology. How nature is transforming our technology and our lives, ISBN 0-7432-0447-6
Academic books
- Evolutionary Design by Computers, ISBN 1-55860-605-X
- Creative Evolutionary Systems, ISBN 1-55860-673-4
- On Growth, Form and Computers, ISBN 0-12-428765-4
- The PhD Application Handbook, ISBN 0-335-21952-7
Academic proceedings
- Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference (ICARIS 2008), ISBN 978-3-540-85071-7
- Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference (ECAL 2005), ISBN 3-540-28848-1
- Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (ICARIS 2005), ISBN 3-540-28175-4
- Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference (ICARIS 2004), ISBN 3-540-23097-1
- Evolvability, Genetics & Development in Natural and Constructed Systems: Abstracts of the EPSRC Evolvability Network Symposium, August 2003
- Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Second International Conference (ICARIS 2003), ISBN 3-540-40766-9
- Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the First International Conference (ICARIS), ISBN 1-902671-32-5
- Proceedings of the AISB99 Symposium on Creative Evolutionary Systems, ISBN 1 902956 03 6
- AID 1998 1st Workshop Notes on Evolutionary Design, July 1998
See also
- Artificial lifeArtificial lifeArtificial life is a field of study and an associated art form which examine systems related to life, its processes, and its evolution through simulations using computer models, robotics, and biochemistry. The discipline was named by Christopher Langton, an American computer scientist, in 1986...
- Evolutionary ComputationEvolutionary computationIn computer science, evolutionary computation is a subfield of artificial intelligence that involves combinatorial optimization problems....
- Norman PackardNorman PackardNorman Harry Packard is a chaos theory physicist and one of the founders of the Prediction Company and ProtoLife. He is an alumnus of Reed College and the University of California, Santa Cruz. Packard is known for his contributions to both chaos theory and cellular automata...
- Thomas S. RayThomas S. RayThomas S. Ray is an ecologist who created and developed the Tierra project, a computer simulation of artificial life.In 1975, he and Donald R...
- David E. GoldbergDavid E. GoldbergDavid Edward Goldberg is an American computer scientist, and professor at the department of Industrial and Enterprise Systems Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is most noted for his seminal works in the field of genetic algorithms...
- John KozaJohn KozaJohn R. Koza is a computer scientist and a former consulting professor at Stanford University, most notable for his work in pioneering the use of genetic programming for the optimization of complex problems. He was a cofounder of Scientific Games Corporation, a company which built computer systems...