My resume’ is here.

Basic Info about Me: American male, born 1966 to human parents — hoping to become radically transhuman one day, in some manner that lets me fully appreciate the transition.  Married … 3 kids so far, born 1989, 1993, 1997; generally surrounded by many small furry and feathery animals.

Back in third grade in 1974, I looked like that picture to the right.   I don’t look so much like that anymore.

These days I’m living in a village in the New Territories of Hong Kong, though I seem to be off somewhere else at least 1/4 of the time….

I have a math PhD, but am currently working mostly on artificial intelligence and its various applications

I’m focused on creating benevolent superhuman artificial general intelligence; and applying AI to areas like financial prediction, bioinformatics, robotics and gaming….  I also love avante-garde fiction and weird music, philosophy, mathematics, wandering randomly in the forest, and lots of other stuff.

See my bio page for more professional and personal biographical details.

My Wikipedia page

I’ve given dozens of speeches on technical and futurist topics in the last few years. One of my more popular talks was Ten Years to a Positive Singularity, If We Really, Really Try., delivered via Skype to the TransVision 2007 conference in Helsinki, from my home in Maryland. See also the text for that talk. (It’s been a few years since then, and unfortunately the human race hasn’t been “really, really trying”, but we’ve made some progress even so!)

Various links relevant to my life or my doings:

Blogs etc.

• The Multiverse According to Ben
• My Twitter page
  
• H+ Magazine, for which I write frequently
• A Cosmist Manifesto (a book in blog format)

Research

 

 

 

• My CV including a list of my research papers (not usually kept current)
• Educational videos of AI in virtual worlds (largely obsolete, will post new ones “soon”)
• My Books
• Dynamical Psychology E-Journal (which I co-edit, since 1995)
• Some (ancient) essays and journalistic articles
• More recent writings of various sorts
  
• In a better universe, this page would contain links to all my research papers … right now it may contain a few…
• A page giving my views on psi, a topic I’d love to research, but haven’t found the time
  

 

Nonprofit Organizations

 

• OpenCog: Software project I co-founded, focused on building an open-source thinking machine
• Artificial General Intelligence conference series … AGI-11 will be on Google’s campus in Mountain View in August 2011
• H+: Humanity Plus … a futurist advocacy group, of which I’m currently Vice Chair (and was Chair for a while)
  
• AGIRI: Artificial General Intelligence Research Institute, a largely dormant website that
  still has some useful information on it

 

Commercial Ventures

 

• Aidyia Holdings: AI-based financial prediction

 

• Novamente LLC: AGI research; AI consulting and software development,  with special expertise in machine learning, language processing, and intelligent agents for games and virtual worlds.
  
• Biomind LLC: Advanced AI for bioinformatic data analysis, especially microarray and
  SNP data
• Genescient: Using bioinformatics and other tools to exploit the genomes of long-lived flies to create therapeutics to combat age-associated disease
  
• Igenesis: Consulting/R&D firm doing AI and other advanced software development, based in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

 

 

Literature and Music

 

• Fiction: Some of my surrealistic fiction writings
• Music: Some electronic keyboard compositions and noodling

 

Personal and Family Photos

• PicasaWeb Photo Gallery (yeah, I’m one of the 3 people who uses that instead of Flickr or whatever)
• Some old family photos

 

Websites of my Offspring

(mostly unmaintained & long obsolete)

 

• Zebradillo
• Le Puppy and the more interesting Le Puppy Blog
• Jah Turtle
• Teleportopia
  

 

Websites of my Parents

• Ted Goertzel’s Research
• Pathways PA, the social service agency my mother runs