Dr. Joscha Bach
Joscha Bach, Ph.D.
is an AI researcher who worked and published about cognitive
architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and
multi-agent systems. He earned his Ph.D. in cognitive science from the
University of Osnabrück, Germany, and has built computational
models
of
motivated decision making, perception, categorization, and
concept-formation.
He is especially interested in the philosophy of AI and in the
augmentation
of the human mind.
Joscha has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the
Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at
Osnabrück. His book “Principles of Synthetic Intelligence” (Oxford
University Press) is to appear later this year.
Joscha authored
Seven Principles of Synthetic Intelligence,
Representations for a Complex World: Combining Distributed and
Localist
Representations for Learning and Planning,
Enhancing Perception and Planning of Software Agents with Emotion and
Acquired Hierarchical Categories, and
MiniPsi, der Mac-Roboter, and
coauthored
MicroPsi: Contributions to a Broad Architecture of Cognition,
The AEP Toolkit for Agent Design and Simulation,
The Artificial Emotion Project Handbook,
Mental Models for Robot Control,
Designing Agent Behavior with the Extensible Agent Behavior
Specification Language XABSL, and
Using pattern matching on a flexible, horizon-aligned grid for
robotic
vision.
Currently, he is working as an entrepreneur in Berlin,
Germany.
Read his
LinkedIn profile.
