BENJAMIN N. GOERTZEL, PH.D.

• 1997 - : Chief Technology Officer (and Chairman), IntelliGenesis Corp., New York
• 1997-98 : Assistant Professor of Computer Science, College of Staten Island, Staten Island, New York City, New York
• 1995-97: Research and Teaching Fellow, Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia
• 1994: Lecturer in Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
• 1989-1993: Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
• 1987-89: Teaching Assistant, Temple University, Philadelphia PA, USA

• 1987-89: Ph.D. in Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA. Dissertation title: "A Multilevel Approach to Global Optimization."
• 1985-86: Attended Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA
• 1982-85: B.A. in Mathematics, Simon's Rock College, Great Barrington MA, USA

My central concern is with complex, self-organizing computational systems and their relevance to natural and artificial intelligence.

At the present time I am supervising a team of many dozens of programmers, working on WebMind, a general purpose distributed AI architecture based on principles from complex systems science and theoretical psychology, programmed in Java. We are building AI code and applications based on this AI code, and I am also involved in various business strategy decisions, negotiations with business partners, etc.

• Research Supervision: 2 Ph.D. students, 2 Masters students
• Graduate Courses (fourth-year or higher): computer graphics, neural computation, Topics in Cognitive Theory, fractal geometry, real analysis, dynamical systems theory, numerical analysis, functional analysis, complex analysis, conformal mapping, advanced calculus
• Undergraduate Courses: Introduction to Cognitive Science, 'Artificial Intelligence, Mind and Society', precalculus, finite math, college algebra, calculus, vector calculus, statistics, linear algebra, mathematics of finance

• Fluent in: Java, C, C++, Basic
• Skilled in: Haskell, Unix shell scripting
• Some knowledge of: Pascal, Fortran, Visual Basic, Visual C++, MIDI, Prolog

• 1993: University of Nevada Research Initiatives Grant, $1500 to hire a programmer for work on computer music
• 1994: Waikato University Research Grant, $11,000 to buy hardware for work on image compression
• 1996: Australian Research Council Grant, $7000 to hire a programmer for work on a project involving cognitive modelling, artificial life and computer graphics
• 1996-99: UWA University Initiatives Fund, $250,000 for computer equipment and computer support personnel for the UWA Cognitive Science Programme. I was one among a number of principal applicants on this grant proposal.

• Goertzel, Ben (1993). The Structure of Intelligence: A New Mathematical Model of Mind . New York: Springer-Verlag.
• Goertzel, Ben (1993). The Evolving Mind . New York: Gordon and Breach.
• Goertzel, Ben (1994). Chaotic Logic: Language, Thought and Reality from the Perspective of Complex Systems Science . New York: Plenum Press.
• Goertzel, Ben (1997). From Complexity to Creativity , accepted by Plenum Press, to appear
• Goertzel, Ben, Allan Combs and Mark Germine (Editors) (2000). Mind in Time: The Dynamics of Thought, Reality and Consciousness, Hampden Press, to appear
• Goertzel, Ben (2000). Wild Computing, New York: Plenum Press. To appear

• Goertzel, Ted and Ben Goertzel (1995). Linus Pauling: A Life in Science and Politics . New York: Basic Books

• Goertzel, Ben (1991). Expression and Simulation in the Rock Guitar Solo, Popular Music and Society
• Goertzel, Ben (1992). Measuring Static Complexity, Int. J. Math. and Math. Sci. 15-1, p.161
• Goertzel, Ben (1992). Global Optimization by Multilevel Search, J. of Optimization Theory and Applications 77-2, p. 423
• Goertzel, Ben (1992). What is Hierarchical Selection? Biology and Philosophy 7-1, p. 27
• Self-organizing Evolution, J. Social and Evolutionary Systems 15-1, p. 7
• Goertzel, Ben (1992)Quantum Theory and Consciousness, J. of Mind and Behavior 13-1, p. 29
• Goertzel, Ben, Harold Bowman and Richard Baker (1993). Dynamics of the Radix Expansion Map, J. Math. and Math. Sci. 17-1, p. 143
• Goertzel, Ben (1993). Brain Function as Evolution, J. Soc. and Ev. Sys. 15-4, p. 399
• Goertzel, Ben (1993). Some Thoughts on Akin's Spiteful Computer, Minds and Machines 4-1, p. 75
• Goertzel, Ben (1993). Self-Reference and Complexity: Component-Systems and Self-Generating Systems in Biology and Cognitive Science, Evolution and Cognition 2, p. 257
• . Goertzel, Ben (1993). Psychology and Logic, J. Soc. and Ev. Sys. 16-4, p. 439
• Goertzel, Ben (1993). Phase Transitions in Associative Memory Networks, Minds and Machines 3-3, p. 313
• Goertzel, Ben (1994). Simulated Annealing on Uncorrelated Fitness Landscapes, Int. J. Math. and Math. Sci. 17-4, p. 791
• Goertzel, Ben (1994). Lagrange Interpolation on a Processor Tree with Ring Connections, J. of Parallel and Distributed Computation 22-2, p.321
• Goertzel, Ben (1994). The Software Market as a Self- Organizing System, J. Soc. and Ev. Sys. 17-1, p.9
• Goertzel, Ben, Hiroo Miyamoto and Yoshimasa Awata (1994). Fractal Image Compression with the Genetic Algorithm, Complexity International Electronic Journal
• Goertzel, Ben (1995). Rapid Generation of Chaotic Attractors with the Eugenic Genetic Algorithm, Computers and Graphics 19-1, p. 151
• Goertzel, Ben and Harold Bowman (1995). Self-Reference, Computation and Mind, J. Soc. and Ev. Sys, 18-1, p. 95
• Karabekian, Moses and Ben Goertzel (1995). Discriminant Analysis of Hydrocollapse in Las Vegas Soils, Civil Engineering Systems
• Goertzel, Ben and Gwen Goertzel (1995) Language as a Biological System. ASSA Journal of System Science 3 (Electronic Journal)
• Goertzel, Ben and Harold Bowman (1996). Walks on Random Digraphs, Applied Mathematics Letters, 9-1, pp. 43-47
• Goertzel, Ben (1996). Artificial Selfhood -- the Path to True Artificial Intelligence, Informatica, to appear
• Goertzel, Ben (1996). Mobile Activation Bubbles in Kohonen Networks, Applied Mathematics Letters.
• Goertzel, Ben (1996). Complex Systems and Hypercomplex Fractals, J. Soc. and Evol. Sys., to appear
• Goertzel, Ben (1997). The Complex Mind/Brain -- I. The Psynet Model of Mental Structure and Dynamics, Complexity, to appear
• Goertzel, Ben (1997). The Complex Mind/Brain -- II. A Theory of Cortical Dynamics, Complexity, to appear

• Goertzel, Ben (1992). Structural Complexity of Sequences, Images and Automata, in Finite Fields, Coding, and Advances in Communication and Computing, ed. Shiue and Mullen, Marcel Dekker, p. 307
• Goertzel, Ben (1995). Evolutionary and Chaotic Dynamics in Minds and Immune Systems, in Chaos and Psychology, Edited by Fred Abraham and Roger Gilgen, New York: Greenwood Press
• Goertzel, Ted and Ben Goertzel (1995). The Dynamics of Belief in the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas Trial, in Chaos and Society, Ed. by Pierre Lemiux
• Goertzel, Ben, Malwane Ananda and Matthew Iklež (1994). On the Dynamics of the Genetic Algorithm (And Other Evolving Systems), Complex Systems: Mechanisms of Adaptation, Ed. Stonier and Lin, Amsterdam: IOS Press
• . Goertzel, Ben (1996). Belief Systems as Attractors, in A Chaos Psychology Reader, Ed. by Combs and Robertson. Hilldale NJ: Erlbaum
• Goertzel, Ben (1996). A Cognitive Equation, in A Chaos Psychology Reader, Ed. by Combs and Robertson. Hilldale NJ: Erlbaum
• Goertzel, Ben (1997). Chaos and Pattern in Complex Systems. In Chaos in Society, to appear
• Goertzel, Ben (1997). Chance and Consciousness. In Mind in Time, Ed. by Goertzel et al. NY: Hampden Press
• Goertzel, Ben (1997). On the Algebraic Structure of Consciousness. In Mind in Time, Ed. by Goertzel et al. NY: Hampden Press
• Goertzel, Ben (1997). Does Time Move Forward? In Mind in Time, Ed. by Goertzel et al. NY: Hampden Press
• Goertzel, Ben and Kalish, Mike (1999). Similarity as Transformation. In Noetic Journal, Special issue on Mind as a Complex System
• Goertzel, Ben (1997). Dream Dynamics: A Process Perspective. In Noetic Journal, Special issue on Mind as a Complex System
• Goertzel, Ben (1997). Faces of Complexity in Psychology. In Noetic Journal, Special issue on Mind as a Complex System
• Goertzel, Ben and Mike Kalish (1997). Mindspace Curvature. In Noetic Journal, Special issue on Mind as a Complex System

• Goertzel, Ben (1994). Evolving Fractal Industrial Music, Proceedings of SYNAESTHETICA94 Conference on Computer Animation and Computer Music, Canberra: Australian Centre for Arts and Technology
• Goertzel, Ben (1995). The Convergence Rate of the Simple GA as Population Size Tends to Infinity, Proceedings of ICEC 1995
• Goertzel, Ben and Gwen Goertzel 1995). The Markovian Language Algorithm: Toward a Neural Network Architecture for Grammar Induction, Proceedings of ANZIIS 1995

• Goertzel, Ben (1996). Musical Psychology and the Aesthetics of Computer Music. Journal of ElectroAcoustic Music.

• Goertzel, Ben (1995). Review of Douglas Hofstadter's book Fluid Analogies, in World Futures
• Goertzel, Ben (1995). Images in Search of a Theory. Commentary on Images of Mind by M. Posner and Raichle, Behavioral and Brain Sciences
• Goertzel, Ben (1994). From Neurons to Neural Assemblies, Commentary item in PSYCOLOQUY Electronic Journal

• Information, Complexity and Meaning, American Mathematical Society (AMS) Regional Conference, Irvine CA, November 1990
• Multilevel Optimization, AMS-MAA Joint Conference, San Francisco CA, January 1991
• 3. Structural Complexity of Sequences and Automata, Conference on Finite Fields and Advances in Communication and Computing, Las Vegas NV, August 1991
• Evolutionary Methods for Global Optimization, AMS-MAA Joint Conference, Baltimore MD, January 1992
• The Structure of Intelligence, Second Annual Conference of Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology, Washington DC, August 1992
• Intelligence as Self-Organizing Evolution, ibid
• The Evolving Mind, Third Annual Conference of the Society for Chaos Theory in Psychology, Orillia, August 1993
• Evolving Fractal Industrial Music, SYNAESTHETICA 94 Conference on Computer Graphics and Computer Animation, Canberra, July 1994
• The Dynamics of the Genetic Algorithm (And Other Evolving Systems), COMPLEX94 -- Second Australian Complex Systems Conference , Rockhampton, June 1994
• Dischaos, Sequence Processing and Implicit Memory, Workshop on Neural Modeling of Cognitive and Brain Disorders, College Park MD, June 1995
• The Convergence Rate of the Simple GA as Population Size Tends to Infinity, ICEC -- IEEE International Conference on Evolutionary Computation, Perth, November 1995
• The Markovian Language Algorithm: Toward a Neural Network Architecture for Grammar Induction, ANZIIS -- Australia/New Zealand Intelligent Information Systems Conference, Perth, November 1995
• A Complex Systems Model of Mind, and Its Computer Implementation, Australian Mathematical Psychology Conference, Melbourne, November 1995

• Allan Combs, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Asheville, combs@unca.edu
• Robert Gregson, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, Australian National University, Canberra, Robert.Gregson@anu.edu.au
• Matthew Ikle, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics, University of Texas, El Paso, ikle@math.utep.edu
• Malwane Ananda, Ph.D., Department of Mathematics, University of Nevada, Las Vegas NV 89154, ananda@nevada.edu
• Clive Wynne, Ph.D., Department of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Nedlands WA 6009 Australia, clive@psy.uwa.edu.au
• C.P. Tsang, Ph.D., Chairman, Department of Computer Science, UWA, tsang@cs.uwa.edu.au
• Lloyd Smith, Ph.D. (former Chairman), Department of Computer Science, University of Waikato, Hamilton NZ, geoff@cs.waikato.ac.nz
• Peter Shiue, Ph.D., Chairman, Department of Mathematical Sciences, UNLV, Las Vegas NV 89154, 702/895-3567, shiue@nevada.edu