Peter J. Bentley
Dr Peter John Bentley (born May 16, 1972) is a British author and computer scientist based at University College London.
Peter J. Bentley is an Honorary Reader and College Fellow at UCL and a Collaborating Professor at KAIST. He is also a popular science author and consultant. He is a contributing editor for WIRED UK and was the monthly host of the Royal Institution's cafe scientifique.
Born in Colchester, England, he achieved a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Essex (supervised by Edward Tsang) and a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Design (supervised by Jonathan Wakefield) at the age of 24. His doctorate thesis was entitled Generic Evolutionary Design of Solid Objects using a Genetic Algorithm.
Since 1997 he has performed research into evolutionary computation, artificial life, swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, artificial neural networks and other types of biologically inspired computing, which he terms Digital Biology. He is head of the Digital Biology Interest Group at the Department of Computer Science, University College London. He participates in science festivals and public events, such as the debate on Complexity and Evolution held at the Natural History Museum in July 2007 with Richard Dawkins, Steve Jones (biologist), Lewis Wolpert. His research has been described in several articles of New Scientist. His recent research focuses on morphological computation and novel architectures designed for natural computation based on evolution, developmental and self-assembling systems.
Most recently he has received publicity for his iPhone application iStethoscope, which was developed in collaboration with cardiologists in USA. The app has been used to gather heart sounds from people around the world in a research project to enable computers to diagnose heart disease automatically using machine learning.
Popular books
- The Undercover Scientist: Investigating the Mishaps of Everyday Life, ISBN 978-1-84794-523-5
- Why Sh*t Happens: The Science of a Really Bad Day, ISBN 978-1-59486-956-3 (US version of The Undercover Scientist)
- The Book of Numbers: The Secret of Numbers and How They Changed the World, ISBN 1-55407-361-8
- Digital Biology. How nature is transforming our technology and our lives, ISBN 0-7432-0447-6
Academic books
- Evolutionary Design by Computers, ISBN 1-55860-605-X
- Creative Evolutionary Systems, ISBN 1-55860-673-4
- On Growth, Form and Computers, ISBN 0-12-428765-4
- The PhD Application Handbook, ISBN 0-335-21952-7
Academic proceedings
- Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference (ICARIS 2008), ISBN 978-3-540-85071-7
- Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference (ECAL 2005), ISBN 3-540-28848-1
- Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (ICARIS 2005), ISBN 3-540-28175-4
- Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference (ICARIS 2004), ISBN 3-540-23097-1
- Evolvability, Genetics & Development in Natural and Constructed Systems: Abstracts of the EPSRC Evolvability Network Symposium, August 2003
- Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Second International Conference (ICARIS 2003), ISBN 3-540-40766-9
- Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the First International Conference (ICARIS), ISBN 1-902671-32-5
- Proceedings of the AISB99 Symposium on Creative Evolutionary Systems, ISBN 1 902956 03 6
- AID 1998 1st Workshop Notes on Evolutionary Design, July 1998
See also
References
- "lifeboat foundation Advisory Board biography". http://www.lifeboat.com/ex/bios.peter.j.bentley. Retrieved September 13, 2008.
- Jones, Steve (July 17, 2007). "New Theories of Evolution". The Daily Telegraph (London). http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/07/17/scilead117.xml. Retrieved September 12, 2008.
- "Public Debate on Complexity and Evolution". http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/evodebate.html. Retrieved September 12, 2008.
- "Digital Biology Interest Group at UCL". http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/igdigitalbiology/index.html. Retrieved September 12, 2008.
- "Insects make a buzz on the music scene. Article in New Scientist, 6 May 2002". http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99992242. Retrieved September 12, 2008.
- "Robot spy can survive battlefield damage, Article in New Scientist, 20 August 2003". http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99994075. Retrieved September 12, 2008.
- "New Scientist Feature Software Seeds, March 6, 2004". http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/seedsarticle.html. Retrieved September 12, 2008.
- "Fast cars could be tuned by evolution. Article in New Scientist, June 17, 2004, March 6, 2004". http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99996019. Retrieved September 12, 2008.
- Laurance, Jeremy (December 14, 2009). "59p stethoscope on iphone proves a hit. Article in Independent Newspaper, December 14, 2009". The Independent (London). http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/59p-stethoscope-on-iphone-proves-a-hit-1839885.html. Retrieved August 27, 2010.
- "Dustin Palm, Stan Burns, Trichy Pasupathy, Eric Deip, Brittney Blair, Misty Flynn, Amanda Drewek, Matt Sjostrand, Brian Stephenson, Glenn Nordehn. Artificial Neural Network Analysis of Heart Sounds Captured From an Acoustic Stethoscope and Emailed Using iStethoscopePro. J. Med. Devices 4, 027531 (2010); doi:10.1115/1.3443737". http://asmedl.aip.org/vsearch/servlet/VerityServlet?KEY=FREESR&smode=results&maxdisp=10&possible1=87.63.dk&possible1zone=article&OUTLOG=NO&viewabs=JMDOA4&key=DISPLAY&docID=1&page=0&chapter=0.
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May 16, 1972 |
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Colchester |
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