MIRI Updates
MIRI’s April 2014 Newsletter
Research Updates New technical report: “Botworld 1.0.” 9 new expert interviews: Max Tegmark on the mathematical universe, Randal Koene on whole brain emulation, Michael Carbin on integrity properties in approximate computing, Anil Nerode on hybrid systems control, Lyle Ungar on...
New Report: Botworld
Today MIRI releases a new technical report: “Botworld 1.0” (pdf) by recent hires Nate Soares and Benja Fallenstein. The report is a “literate” Haskell file, available from MIRI’s Github page. Soares explains the report on his accompanying Less Wrong post,...
Paulo Tabuada on program synthesis for cyber-physical systems
Paulo Tabuada was born in Lisbon, Portugal, one year after the Carnation Revolution. He received his “Licenciatura” degree in Aerospace Engineering from Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisbon, Portugal in 1998 and his Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002...
Diana Spears on the safety of adaptive agents
Diana Spears is an Owner and Research Scientist at Swarmotics, LLC. Previously, she worked at US government laboratories (Goddard, NIST, NRL) and afterwards she was an Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Wyoming. She received both the...
Will MacAskill on normative uncertainty
Will MacAskill recently completed his DPhil at Oxford University and, as of October 2014 will be a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He is the cofounder of Giving What We Can and 80,000 Hours. He’s currently writing a book,...
Erik DeBenedictis on supercomputing
Erik DeBenedictis works for Sandia’s Advanced Device Technologies department. He has been a member of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors since 2005. DeBenedictis has received Ph.D. in computer science from Caltech. As a grad student and post-doc, he worked...
