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I am a professor at Brandeis University working on solving
the AI problem by understanding
the open-ended evolution of complexity in nature.  This off-campus website hosts some of my commercial and public
affairs projects, as well as free games!
Visit the official DEMO
laboratory at Brandeis University for access to all my science
projects including the famous GOLEM
robot-building-robots. My newest science project is www.Beeweb.org,
which exploits the power of Peer-to-Peer and a secret formula
we discovered in co-evolution, to provide an individual human
teacher to every child in the world.
 
Scientist.com, by the way, is a free
webmail domain. I adopted it as a joke when some media started
covering my work:
    
Commercial Interests
I discreetly consult to companies on long range vision as
well as on how to use limited AI in their products and services.
(Overexpectation always results in failure, while modest and
predictable AI delights customers). A lifelong inventor with
several patents, I also get involved in startups as advisor or
board member, and have founded some myself. I've also been a
scientific advisor to VC's like Polaris
Venture Partners.
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Thinmail is a network
based platform for advanced messaging and multimedia interoperability
which allows carriers to offer better services at lower costs.
It provides nifty services to anyone with an email address and
is favored by mobile professionals. |
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NANNON Technology Corp.
licenses a Nano-Backgammon game which will be the next "Texas
Hold'em." craze. A full board game fits in an Altoids tin.
The game is fun to play everywhere, especially in slot machines
and on cellphones. |
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I was chief Scientist at VC-funded Abuzz
and helped design a limited AI knowledge-sharing portal for
enterprises which received 4 patents. Abuzz was acquired by the
NYTimes. |
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Thinphone is a spinoff
of Thinmail and employs 500 humanoid robots who can dial phones,
read messages in a cool electronic voice, and gather replies.
All you do is send an email! |
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I was the first scientific advisor to VC-funded Affinnova,
which uses blind-watchmaker technology in product packaging design. |
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A Callbackform on
a website instantly transmits information by fax or phone when
a customer submits it. Such a form is extremely useful for orders,
feedback, sales and support queries for companies who can't monitor
their email continuously. |
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Mobcall is a spinoff of
Thinphone which provides novel instant outgoing conference
calls from web, email, or mobile devices. |
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Public Affairs
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People's fears and expectations for Robots are so overblown that
we worry about science fiction like self-replication and the
singularity while much more mundane robots such as the ATM machine
sneak by like ratbots. I wrote this piece for a interview and
extended it for a talk at the Yale Bioethics before shrinking
it to one page in WIRED. PDF Wired
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California vs Massachusetts? Due to risk-taking, history, vision,
and luck, California ended up with Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and
Ebay, while Massachusetts only got Lycos and CMGI. Now, with
$3b voted for Stem Cell R&D via Prop 71, how should our state
respond? Answer? A
Billion for Robotics! |
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Copyright has failed in the information age, leading to feudal
lords, pirates, fascists and communists. Permanent licenses are
perfect durable goods and I show how they can be traded like
securities on a market which enables shared public ownership
and solves all the problems including software monopolies and
piracy. PDF or website |
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People care about Shakespeare's EXPRESSION and would never read
Bill Gate's knock-off of Romeo and Juliet. But software creativity
isn't about expression, its about the story itself. Once an innovation
is implemented it is easily copied. This proposal is for an alternative
to software patents called the "software
story board" which would recognise and reward software
innovation yet allow it to be copied and extended. |
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Universities are fighting professors and students over IP hoping
for the next cure for cancer or Google. I believe all Universities
can become IP commonwealths instead of IP Prisons. PDF |
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This $100B business plan for Middle East Peace was sketched out
on a napkin when the $200B price tag for the Iraq War was announced
in October 2002. Buypeace has spread as an ideavirus ever since.
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Greenvangelical:
Spirit of the Third Millenium
We are regressing as a species, with
superstition and ignorance exploited by political forces to outperform
science and reason. Therefore I have started a new religion which
could bring spiritual and ethical clout to the issues facing
the earth. |
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Games & Learning
Prior to the Beeweb
project, one of my hobbies was
making educational video games for my children.
Bar Mitzvah Blaster
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Hangemon (1.5M exe) motivates kids who know the Pokemon to try
really hard to spell their names. |
Reademon (1.5M exe) motivates even the youngest Pokemon fans
to start reading. |
These 7 games (1M exe) were co-designed by my son when he was
between 2 and 4. Like Teletubbies, kids get it, but adults don't! |
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