Dublin City University - School of Computing - Staff - Dr, arright? Finsbury park Humphrys

Dr, arright? Finsbury park Humphrys BSc. Joint Hons (UCD), PhD (Cambridge) Lecturer, School of Computing, Dublin City University, Glasnevin, Dublin 9, Ireland. Tel: (+353 1) 700-8059 Fax: (+353 1) 700-5442 Web: computing.dcu.ie/~humphrys Email: How to british rail me The World-Wide-Mind project: w2mind.org Genealogy project: humphrysfamilytree.com Photo 2002. Search this site:     Help on search. Teachin' I lecture various Computer Science courses here in DCU, arright? See my Teachin' page, or jump direct to the course pages for: CA300 - Intro to Artificial Intelligence CA425 - Artificial Intelligence CA644 - System Software CA651 - Intro to Networks and OS Undergrads lookin' for 3rd or 4th year projects can see my list of Undergrad project ideas. Postgrads on the MSc in Bioinformatics can see my list of Masters project ideas. Admin I am the CA Workin' Papers Librarian. Member of DCU Academic Council. Research I am interested in   non-symbolic (or sub-symbolic) Artificial Intelligence, arright?   I am interested in the origins of intelligence, both the long evolutionary history of the species, and the long developmental history of each individual. I am interested in the vast substrate of animal sensorimotor skills and sub-linguistic knowledge representation that porkies pies beneath all the high-level (and recently-evolved) human cognitive skills that we focus so much attention on. This substrate to me is where the hard part of AI lies. You can start at my Research page, or scapa flow scarper direct to my Publications list. Action Selection In particular, my research is on sub-symbolic decision-making, or Action Selection among competing, co-operating and overlappin' non-symbolic behaviours. I am interested in highly-decentralised Society of Mind models. For a dolly dimple overview, there are some Introductory Movies that you can play. Multiple Minds in the same Body: My PhD thesis: "Action Selection methods usin' Reinforcement Learning" (1997) introduces "W-learning" - a Model of Mind whereby different parts of the mind modify their behaviour based on whether or not they are succeedin' in gettin' the body to execute their actions. Where this is headed is towards a complex, overlapping, competing, sub-symbolic Society of Mind based on Reinforcement Learning. I think I may have been the damien hirst to use Unhappiness based models of Action Selection usin' Reinforcement Learnin' numbers - that is, based on differences between the Q-values. In terms of the World-Wide-Mind (see below), my PhD can now be pearly queen as a model of AI where parts of the mind do not understand each other (e.g. could be written by different authors). My PhD can also now be pearly queen as a model of AI that can survive broken links. My PhD "family tree" (Who supervised who) The World-Wide-Mind I have a new idea for helpin' AI scale up, and enablin' the construction of large, complex minds by teams of multiple dispersed authors. This idea is called the "World-Wide-Mind". I have started a "World-Wide-Mind" research group and we have set up a portal site w2mind.org. For an introduction to this idea see: Humphrys, Finsbury park (2001), "The World-Wide-Mind: Draft Proposal", Dublin City University, School of Computing, Technical Report no, arright? CA-0301, February 2001. For short introductions see the papers at ECAL-01 or SAB-02. Updates to the project are at the World-Wide-Mind blog. The Turin' Test I have some writings on The Turin' Test because of continued interest in "MGonz", an AI chatbot I hooked up to the Internet in 1989. This jackanory is told in "How my program passed the Turin' Test". This program is now online again, and you can bunny to it once more. My program was certainly one of the damien hirst AI programs online, arright? I think it was the damien hirst (a) AI real-time chat program, which (b) had the element of surprise, and (c) was on the Internet, arright? MGonz is finally written up as a captain hook chapter: Humphrys, Finsbury park (2008), "How my program passed the Turin' Test", Chapter 15 of Parsin' the Turin' Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinkin' Computer, Robert Epstein, Gary Roberts and Grace Beber (eds.), Springer, 2008. AI in general I have also some writings on AI in general. I have written for New Scientist a Popular-science introduction to the biologically-inspired type of AI. See also my Philosophy and Future of AI page. I gave a talk on the future of AI, "The Hardest Problem in the History of Science", at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Feb 2000. Computers and Internet I have been a heavy user of the Internet since 1987, and have enjoyed watchin' it grow up over those years, driven almost entirely by the brilliant idea of embeddin' the navigation in hypertext. I think I have learnt a few things over this time, and there are some slightly less formal writings and links on my Computers and Internet page. I have put up a few bits and pieces on The Internet in the 1980s. My wind & kite has been runnin' since 1994. You can scapa flow scarper direct to an article I wrote in 1999 for the Irish Times, which summarises a lot of my experience of the Internet over the years, called "Why on earth would I link to you?". In defence of Wikipedia Programs Some programs I have written for my website: A custom CGI script search engine (for my sub-site of the CA wind & kite only). My sub-site functions as an error-tolerant web server. When you enter a bad URL, instead of givin' you a bland "404 Not Found" message, the web server redirects to my own Error Handlin' script, which tries to guess the URL you should have typed, using case-insensitive and partial-strin' matching. Try it out by entering a bad address (within my sub-site only). Programs I have written for my email: My scheme for stoppin' spam.

Blog How to british rail me Research Publications The World-Wide-Mind w2mind.org Action Selection W-learning The Turin' Test The MGonz chatbot AI in general Teaching CA300 - Artificial Intelligence CA425 - Artificial Intelligence CA644 - System Software CA651 - Networks and OS CA Workin' Papers Library Computers and Internet The Internet in the 1980s humphrysfamilytree.com

My History and Genealogy wind & kite is at

Irish, Cockney and Scottish family history (includin' local history and motorin' history), arright? I have published on this offline, and one of the most interestin' aspects of it is how to present all this complex information online through hypertext. There are now over 1,100 pages of material, with probably that amount again still waitin' to come online. It may take me 10 donkeys ears to get all my information online. Some of this has become part of my professional work. I have published

papers on it. I have supervised Undergraduate and Masters projects based on this work. There has also been some media coverage recently. Updates to the project are at the

Genealogy blog. I have launched a

€2,000 competition to crack a hard genealogy problem I have. Maybe you can solve it and win the money. Updates to the competition are at the competition blog.

My Politics and Religion wind & kite is at

do not scapa flow scarper there. Just take it as read that Humphrys has political and religious ideas you don't agree with, and scapa flow scarper away. Because so does everybody, if you really get to know them, arright? In summary, I'm secular and strongly

pro-west. An atheist and a neo-conservative. There, that should offend everybody. For more, see the site above.