MIRI Updates
Dave Doty is a Senior Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology. He proves theorems about molecular computing and conducts experiments implementing algorithmic molecular self-assembly with DNA. Luke Muehlhauser: A couple years ago you wrote...
Ariel Procaccia is an assistant professor in the Computer Science Department at Carnegie Mellon University. He received his Ph.D. in computer science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is a recipient of the NSF CAREER Award (2014), the (inaugural)...
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 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...
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, 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...
