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Moshe Sipper
The following is an abridged bio from his personal site:
Moshe Sipper is a Professor of Computer Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. He received his B.A. degree from the Technion — Israel Institute of Technology, and his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Tel Aviv University, all in Computer Science.
Dr. Sipper's current research focuses on evolutionary computation, mainly as applied to software development and games. He also has experience researching the following areas: bio-inspired computing, cellular automata, cellular computing, artificial self-replication, embryonic electronics, evolvable hardware, artificial life, artificial neural networks, fuzzy logic, and robotics.
Dr. Sipper has published over 160 scientific publications including three research-related books: Evolved to Win, Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing, and Evolution of Parallel Cellular Machines: The Cellular Programming Approach.
As you can see, he's a very busy guy…
I created a visualization of (a subset of) his publication history here.
Work in Evolutionary Computation
Dr. Sipper is interested in using evolutionary algorithms to games. In his book Evolved to Win (free download) he details how he has created programs that do well in a variety of games including: Chess, FreeCell, Backgammon, Checkers, and Reversi to name a few.
Darwinian Software Engineering
First presented in 2010 and then eventually published in 2012 in the Ubiquity Symposium.
FINCH: Fertile Darwinian Bytecode Harvester.
- FINCH evolves Java bytecode and using a fitness function it evaluates the output program.
- Has been used to solve the Artificial Ant and Intwined Spirals problem.
- Prides itself on turning bad seeds into good programs. But how bad can they really be?
- Fixed a good Tic-Tac-Toe solver that had a couple of subtle bugs.
Work in Fiction
Interestingly, Dr. Sipper is an author of three science fiction novels: Daniel Max and the King in the Tower, Xor: The Shape of Darkness, and The Peaceful Affair in addition to writing comics and regular short stories on his blog.