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Lee SpectorCognitive Science |
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Lee Spector is a Professor of Computer Science in the School of Cognitive Science at Hampshire
College. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from Oberlin College
in 1984, and a Ph.D. from the Department
of Computer Science at the University of Maryland in 1992. At Hampshire he
has held the MacArthur Chair, served as the elected faculty member of the Board of
Trustees, and served as the Dean of the School of Cognitive Science. He supervises
the Hampshire College Cluster Computing
Facility. Dr. Spector recently received the highest honor bestowed by the National Science Foundation for excellence in both teaching and research, the NSF Director's Award for Distinguished Teaching Scholars (press releases: NSF, Hampshire). He has won several other awards and honors, including a gold medal in the Human Competitive Results contest of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (more information) and election as a fellow of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (press release). Dr. Spector teaches and conducts research in computer science, artificial intelligence, and artificial life. His areas of interest include genetic and evolutionary computation, quantum computation, planning in dynamic environments, artificial intelligence education, artificial intelligence and neuropsychology, and artificial intelligence in the arts. Dr. Spector has produced over 50 professional scientific publications, including his recent book: Automatic Quantum Computer Programming: A Genetic Programming Approach, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2004. He was Editor-in-Chief for the Proceedings of the 2001 GECCO (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation) conference and has served as track chair, organizer, or reviewer for several other conferences. He was lead editor for Advances in Genetic Programming, Volume 3, published by MIT Press (MIT Press page, list of chapters and text from the Introduction). He also writes for general audiences, including a recent OpEd piece in The Boston Globe (The Globe's page, local copy). Dr. Spector is a member of the Executive Board of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary Computation, an Associate Editor for the journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Evolutionary Computation. |
