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Krasnow Institute > Monday Seminars > Abstracts Dr. Hugo de Garis Dr. Hugo de Garis heads the Brain Builder Group at ATR Labs in Kyoto Japan. He received his PhD in artificial intelligence and artificial life in 1991 from Brussels University, Belgium. For the past 7 years, he has been working in Japan creating a new technology which should render brain building practical. Brain building is defined as the assembly of tens of thousands of cellular automata based neural network circuit modules, evolved at electronic speeds in evolvable hardware, into humanly defined "artificial brain" architectures. Dr. de Garis is the creator of several research fields. He was the first to evolve neural net dynamics (1989) which led to the creation of artificial nervous systems that the field of evolutionary robotics is based on; evolvable hardware (1992) now a thriving research field; artificial brains (1993), which is his current work. He has published a dozen journal articles, 60 conference papers, 11 book chapters, has several patents, has received nearly 40,000 hits on his web site and has attracted hundreds of international media reports on his pioneering work on building artificial brains. Dr. de Garis has recently taken delivery of a new kind of computer called a CAM-Brain Machine (CBM) which evolves a neural net module in about a second and can update a 40 million neuron artificial brain (embedded in a half billion 3D cellular automata cell RAM space) 300 times a second, which is fast enough to control the behaviors of a life sized robot kitten in real time. With this new machine, designing the 32000 module artificial brain for the kitten can now begin in earnest.
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