Background
Bongard, Josh Clifford was born on April 17, 1974 in Toronto, Canada. Arrived in the United States, 2003. Son of Ralph and Carol Bongard.
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How could the body influence our thinking when it seems obvious that the brain controls the body? In How the Body Shapes the Way We Think, Rolf Pfeifer and Josh Bongard demonstrate that thought is not independent of the body but is tightly constrained, and at the same time enabled, by it. They argue that the kinds of thoughts we are capable of have their foundation in our embodiment -- in our morphology and the material properties of our bodies. This crucial notion of embodiment underlies fundamental changes in the field of artificial intelligence over the past two decades, and Pfeifer and Bongard use the basic methodology of artificial intelligence -- "understanding by building" -- to describe their insights. If we understand how to design and build intelligent systems, they reason, we will better understand intelligence in general. In accessible, nontechnical language, and using many examples, they introduce the basic concepts by building on recent developments in robotics, biology, neuroscience, and psychology to outline a possible theory of intelligence. They illustrate applications of such a theory in ubiquitous computing, business and management, and the psychology of human memory. Embodied intelligence, as described by Pfeifer and Bongard, has important implications for our understanding of both natural and artificial intelligence.
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Bongard, Josh Clifford was born on April 17, 1974 in Toronto, Canada. Arrived in the United States, 2003. Son of Ralph and Carol Bongard.
Bachelor of Science summa cum laude in Computer Science, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1997. Master of Science with distinction in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems, University Sussex, Brighton, United Kingdom, 1999. Doctor of Philosophy, University Zürich, Switzerland, 2003.
He is the co-author of the popular science book entitled "How the Body Shapes the Way We Think: A New View of Intelligence", Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, November 2006. (With Rolf Pfeifer). He is also the co-author of "Designing Intelligence: Why Brains Aren"t Enough" (with Rolf Pfeifer and Don Berry).
In 2007, he was named to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Technology Review TR35 as one of the top 35 innovators in the world under the age of 35. and Lipson H.( and Lipson H. and Lipson H.
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