A Novel Artificial Life Environment Demonstrating Emergent Image Behaviors
David Primeaux
Computer Science Department
Virginia Commonwealth University, U.S.A.
dprimeau@vcu.edu
Abstract:
Artificial Life environments inspired by swarms of ants, schools of fish, and flocks of birds have been studied by some AI researchers for the past twenty years. The emergent behaviors of some such environments have been used to simulate biological behaviors and in the creation of computer animations, while the emergent behaviors of others are effectively used in to address computational problems that would otherwise prove more challenging, such as optimization and tracking problems. In this presentation, I discuss a novel Artificial Life environment, explore its characteristics, and discuss how it demonstrates emergent behavior in the context of an image.
Dr. David Primeaux is Associate Professor of Computer Science at Virginia Commonwealth University. His research interests are reflected in the two labs he directs. In one lab the focus is on the development of basic research for a specific AI algorithm with emergent behaviors. In his other lab the focus is on applied research associated with computer security and digital forensics He did his graduate studies in Philosophy at the University of Louvain, Belgium and in Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.
IT Specialist Program: A New
Software Engineering
Education Program in Japan
Jiro Tanaka
Department of Computer Science
University of Tsukuba, Japan
jiro@cs.tsukuba.ac.jp
Abstract:
Now, information and communication technology (IT) serves as a base of all the industrial fields, and serves as an important factor which settles the superiority or inferiority of national global competitiveness.
On the other hand, the shortage of IT talented people supporting such a base is a serious problem, and the advanced IT personnel training by the mutual cooperation of industry, academia and government has been an important subject.
In 2006, Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology announced a new program “IT specialist training promotion program” and University of Tsukuba has started “the advanced IT program” in cooperation with Japanese Business Federation.
This talk will summarize what is going on “IT specialist training promotion program” in Japan.
Jiro Tanaka is a Professor of Department of Computer Science, the University of Tsukuba. His research interests include software engineering, ubiquitous computing, and computer-human interaction. He served as a Chair. of Department of Computer Science 2000-2002 and 2004-2007, Dean of College of Information Sciences, 2002-2006, Dean of Information Sciences and Electronics, 2006-2007, and Provost of Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering, 2007-2009. He received a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. from the University of Tokyo in 1975 and 1977. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Utah in 1984. He is a member of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.