MIRI Updates
Max Tegmark on the mathematical universe
Known as “Mad Max” for his unorthodox ideas and passion for adventure, his scientific interests range from precision cosmology to the ultimate nature of reality, all explored in his new popular book “Our Mathematical Universe“. He is an MIT physics...
MIRI’s March 2014 Newsletter
Research Updates We recently hired four new researchers, including two new Friendly AI researchers. We announced this to our local supporters at the recent MIRI Expansion Party. We’ve scheduled our next research workshop for May 2014. Three new posts on...
Recent Hires at MIRI
MIRI is proud to announce several new team members (see our Team page for more details): Benja Fallenstein attended four of MIRI’s past workshops, and has contributed to several novel results in Friendly AI theory, including Löbian cooperation, parametric polymorphism,...
Toby Walsh on computational social choice
Toby Walsh is a professor of artificial intelligence at NICTA and the University of New South Wales. He has served as Scientific Director of NICTA, Australia’s centre of excellence for ICT research. He has also held research positions in England,...
Randall Larsen and Lynne Kidder on USA bio-response
Colonel Randall Larsen, USAF (Ret), is the National Security Advisor at the UPMC Center for Health Security, and a Senior Fellow at the Homeland Security Policy Institute, George Washington University. He previously served as the Executive Director of the Commission...
John Ridgway on safety-critical systems
John Ridgway studied physics at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne and Sussex University before embarking upon a career in software engineering. As part of that career he worked for 28 years in the field of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS),...
