Received: from GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU by A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU id aa26881; 20 Jul 95 14:33:19 EDT Date: Thu, 20 Jul 95 14:31:04 EDT From: AI.Repository@GLINDA.OZ.CS.CMU.EDU To: ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu Subject: Predoc: Emergent and Evolutationary Computation at Univ. of Birmingham Sender: ai@A.GP.CS.CMU.EDU From: rmp@sonic.cs.bham.ac.uk (Riccardo Poli) Date: 19 Jul 1995 17:51:05 GMT Organization: School of Computer Science, Birmingham Univ. UK The University of Birmingham School of Computer Science Research Studentships in ~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ EMERGENT AND EVOLUTIONARY BEHAVIOUR, INTELLIGENCE, AND COMPUTATION (EEBIC) Applications are invited for a number of Studentships for full-time PhD research in the School of Computer Science to carry out research within the recently founded EEBIC group. The group's research interests include: evolutionary computation (e.g. genetic algorithms and genetic programming), emergent behaviour, emergent intelligence (e.g. emergent communication), emergent computation and artificial life and their practical applications in hard engineering problems. The members of the group, at Birmingham and elsewhere, are active researchers in Artificial Intelligence, Engineering or Psychology with a variety of different backgrounds including Biology, Computer Science, Engineering, Psychology and Philosophy. In addition to EEBIC, the research experience of the members of the group includes computer vision, neural nets, signal processing, intelligent autonomous agents, hybrid inference systems, computer emotions, logic and many others. The group interacts very closely with the Cognition and Affect group led by Aaron Sloman who is a member of both groups. (For more information see URLs: ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/groups/cog_affect and http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs .) The successful applicants will join the group's effort to explore EEBIC in many interesting directions (from engineering to psychology, from new practical applications to new theoretical frameworks). They will have constant interaction and collaboration with the other members of the group. In addition to the usual requirements of possessing a good honours degree (equivalent to a first or upper second class degree in a UK university) and being EU residents, the successful candidates will need to be particularly open minded to the cross-fertilisation in the group deriving from the different backgrounds and experience of the members. Additional information about how to apply and about the School is available via WWW from URL: http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk Informal enquiries about the EEBIC group can be directed to Riccardo Poli Phone: +44-121-414-3739 Fax: +44-121-414-4281 Email: R.Poli@cs.bham.ac.uk Enquiries concerning the Cognition and Affect group may be sent to Aaron Sloman Phone: +44-121-414-4775 Fax: +44-121-414-4281 Email: A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk For any other queries contact our research students' admission tutor: Dr Peter Hancox Email: P.J.Hancox@cs.bham.ac.uk -- Dr. Riccardo Poli E-mail: R.Poli@cs.bham.ac.uk School of Computer Science Telephone: +44-121-414-3739 The University of Birmingham Fax: +44-121-414-4281 Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message | Submissions ai+ai-predoc@cs.cmu.edu was sent via | Subscribe/Unsubscribe ai+query@cs.cmu.edu the AI-PREDOC | Available mailing lists include mailing list. | AI-JOBS, LISP-JOBS, PROLOG-JOBS, AI-POSTDOC, AI-PREDOC