Faculty Guide

Title

Professor of Computer Science

Computer Science
Volen National Center for Complex Systems

Expertise

Artificial intelligence. Neural networks. Machine learning. Evolutionary computation. Dynamical systems.

Awards and Honors

Elected to chair the 2004 International Conference of the International Society for Artificial Life (2004)

MIT Technology Review "TR 1O" (2000 - 2001)

IBM Graduate Fellowship (1984 - 1986)

Courses Taught

COSI	2a	Introduction to Computers
COSI	21b	Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
COSI	22b	Programming Paradigms
COSI	101a	Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence
COSI	113b	Artificial Life

Scholarship

Pollack, Jordan. "¿My search for open-ended Complexity¿." 5 Questions on Complexity.. Ed. in Gershenson, C. (Ed.. Automatic Press/VIP., 2008 (forthcoming)

Bader-Natal, A, Pollack, Jordan. "Assessing Learning and Difficulty in a Peer-Driven Tutoring System." AI in Education, Los Angeles. 2007. (forthcoming)

Ficici, Sevan, Pollack, Jordan. "Evolutionary Dynamics of Finite Populations in Games with Polymorphic Fitness-Equilibria." Journal of Theoretical Biology 247. 3 (2007): 426-441. (forthcoming)

Cussat-Blanc, S, & Pollack, J.B.. "“Cracking the Egg: Virtual Embryology for Real Robots”.." Artificial Life, Submitted (2013).

Cussat-Blanc, S, & Pollack, J.. A Cell-based Developmental Model to Generate Real Robot Morphologies. Proc. of Proceedings of the 2012 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, GECCO'12. Philadelphia: ACM, 2012.

Shang Y, Haynes P, Pírez N, Harrington KI, Guo F, Pollack J, Hong P, Griffith LC, Rosbash M.. "(2011) Imaging analysis of clock neurons reveals light buffers the wake-promoting effect of dopamine.." Nat Neurosci. 14. (7), (2011): 889-95..

Harrington, K. I., and Pollack, J. B.. "Robot Phylogenetics.." Proceedings of Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), Portland, OR. 2010.

Heymann, M., Harrington, K., Pollack, J., and Fraden, S.. "En route to signal inversion in chemical computing.." Proceedings of Artificial Life XII, Denmark. 2010.

Bader-Nadal & Pollack, J. B. "BEEweb: a Multi-Domain Platform fro Reciprocal Peer-Driven Tutoring Systems.." Proceedings of Intelligent Tutoring Systems 2006, Taiwan. July 2006.

Bader-Natal, Ari, and Pollack, Jordan. "Evaluating Problem Difficulty Rankings Using Sparse Student Response Data.." 3th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, Marina Del Ray. 2007.

Bucci A, & Pollack, Jordan. "Bucci, A. and Pollack, J.B. (2007). Thoughts on Solution Concepts. Accepted at GECCO 2007, Coevolution Track." Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO), :London. 2007.

Pollack, Jordan. "Mindless Intelligence,." IEEE Intelligent Systems 21. 3 (2007): 50-56.

Pollack, Jordan. "¿AI will arrive¿,." What Are You Optimistic About? : Today's Leading Thinkers on Why Things are Good and Getting Better,. Ed. John Brockman., 2007

Pollack, Jordan. "¿Science is just another Religion¿." What is Your Dangerous Idea? : Today's Leading Thinkers on the Unthinkable. Ed. John Brockman., 2007

Burjorjee, K. and Pollack, J.B. "A General Coarse-Graining Framework for Studying Simultaneous Inter-Population Constraints Induced by Evolutionary Operations.." 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, Seattle. july 2006.

Rieffel, J & Pollack, Jordan. "An Endosymbiotic Model for Modular Acquisition in Stochastic Developmental Systems." Proceedings 10th conference on simulation and synthesis of life (ALIFEX), Bloomington IN. July 2006.

Pollack, Jordan and Bucci, A.. Focusing versus Intransitivity: Geometrical Aspects of Co-evolution. Proc. of Proceedings of the 2003 Genetic and Evolutionary C. 2003.

Pollack,Jordan & Ficici, S,. A Game-Theoretic Memory Mechanism for Coevolution. Proc. of Proceedings of the 2003 Genetic and Evolutionary C. 2003.

Pollack,Jordan and Dejong, E.. Learning the Ideal Evaluation Function. Proc. of Proceedings of the 2003 Genetic and Evolutionary C. 2003.

Pollack,Jordan and Levy, Simon D. "Escape the Building-Block / Rule Dichotomy: A Case Study." AAAI Spring Symposium on Computational Synthesis (2003).

Pollack,Jordan, Ficici, S.. A Game-Theoretic Memory Mechanism for Coevolution. Proc. of Proceedings of the 2003 GEnetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference. Springer Verlag: 2003.

Pollack,Jordan. "Computer Creativity in the Automatic Design of Robots." LEONARDO. Ed. Hornby, G.S, and Lipson, H.., 2003. 115-121.

Pollack,Jordan. "Multi-Objective Methods for Tree Size Control." Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines. Ed. DeJong, E.D.., 2003. 211-233.

Pollack,Jordan, co-ed. Pattie Maes, Maja Mataric, Jean-Arcady Meye. From Animals to Animats 4. Proceedings 4th International Conference on Simulation of Adap, 1996.

Pollack,Jordan, co-ed.J.A. Barnden. High-level Connectionist Models: Advances in Connectionist and Neural Computational Theory. Norwood NJ: Albex, 1991.