Selmer Bringsjord
Encyclopedia
Selmer Bringsjörd is the chair of the Department of Cognitive Science
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
. He is also a professor of Computer Science
and Cognitive Science
. He conducts research in Artificial Intelligence
as the director of the Rensselaer AI & Reasoning Lab (RAIR). He advocates counter-terrorism security insured by pervasive, all-seeing sensors; automated reasoners; and autonomous, lethal robots.
He has an argument for P = NP using digital physics.
Bringsjord's education includes a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania
and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brown University
.
Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...
at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Stephen Van Rensselaer established the Rensselaer School on November 5, 1824 with a letter to the Rev. Dr. Samuel Blatchford, in which van Rensselaer asked Blatchford to serve as the first president. Within the letter he set down several orders of business. He appointed Amos Eaton as the school's...
. He is also a professor of Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
and Cognitive Science
Cognitive science
Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of mind and its processes. It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works. It includes research on how information is processed , represented, and transformed in behaviour, nervous system or machine...
. He conducts research 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...
as the director of the Rensselaer AI & Reasoning Lab (RAIR). He advocates counter-terrorism security insured by pervasive, all-seeing sensors; automated reasoners; and autonomous, lethal robots.
He has an argument for P = NP using digital physics.
Bringsjord's education includes a B.A. in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania is a private, Ivy League university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States,Penn is the fourth-oldest using the founding dates claimed by each institution...
and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
.
Books authored
- with Yang, Y. Mental Metalogic: A New, Unifying Theory of Human and Machine Reasoning (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum).(2007)
- with Zenzen, M. Superminds: People Harness Hypercomputation, and More (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer). (2003)
- with Ferrucci, D. Artificial Intelligence and Literary Creativity: Inside the Mind of Brutus, A Storytelling Machine (Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum).(2000)
- Abortion: A Dialogue (Indianapolis, IN: Hackett).(1997)
- What Robots Can and Can’t Be (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer).(1992)
- Soft Wars (New York, NY: Penguin USA). A novel.(1991)