MIRI Updates
Suzana Herculano-Houzel on cognitive ability and brain size
Suzana Herculano-Houzel is an associate professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she heads the Laboratory of Comparative Neuroanatomy. She is a Scholar of the James McDonnell Foundation, and a Scientist of the Brazilian National Research...
Martin Hilbert on the world’s information capacity
Martin Hilbert pursues a multidisciplinary approach to understanding the role of information, communication, and knowledge in the development of complex social systems. He holds doctorates in Economics and Social Sciences, and in Communication, a life-long appointment as Economic Affairs Officer...
Why MIRI?
I wrote a short profile of MIRI for a forthcoming book on effective altruism. It leaves out many important details, but hits many of the key points pretty succinctly: The Machine Intelligence Research Institute (MIRI) was founded in 2000 on...
Thomas Bolander on self-reference and agent introspection
Thomas Bolander, Ph.D., is associate professor at DTU Compute, Technical University of Denmark. He is doing research in logic and artificial intelligence with primary focus on the use of logic to model human-like planning, reasoning and problem solving. Of special...
Jonathan Millen on covert channel communication
Jonathan Millen started work at the MITRE Corporation in 1969, after graduation from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Ph.D. in Mathematics. He retired from MITRE in 2012 as a Senior Principal in the Information Security Division. From 1997 to 2004...
Wolf Kohn on hybrid systems control
Dr. Wolf Kohn is the Chief Scientist at Atigeo, LLC, and a Research Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Washington. He is the founder and co-founder of two successful start-up companies: Clearsight Systems, Corp., and Kohn-Nerode,...
