Joscha Bach | |
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![]() Bach in 2013 | |
Born |
Weimar, Germany | December 21, 1973
Nationality | German |
Alma mater |
Humboldt University of Berlin (MA) Osnabrück University (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Cognitive Science Artificial Intelligence Computer Science |
Institutions |
Intel AI Foundation Harvard MIT Media Lab |
Thesis | Principles of Synthetic Intelligence; Building Blocks for an Architecture of Motivated Cognition (2006) |
Doctoral advisor |
Dietrich Dörner Kai-Uwe Kühnberger |
Website |
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Joscha Bach (born 1973 in Weimar, East Germany) is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. [1]
Bach was born and grew up in East Germany. His parents are architect and artist Jochen Bach, and Gisa Bach. He is part of the Bach family. [2]
He received an MA ( computer science) from Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 2000 and a PhD ( cognitive science) from Osnabrück University in 2006. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Bach has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabrück. He worked as a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. [7]
He then joined AI Foundation, working as VP of Research. [6] Between March 2021 and January 2023, he was a Principal AI Engineer at Intel Labs Cognitive Computing group. [8] He currently serves on AI Foundation's Advisory Council. [9]
Bach built MicroPsi, a cognitive architecture extending representations of the Psi-theory with taxonomies, inheritance and linguistic labeling; MicroPsi's spreading activation networks allow for neural learning, planning and associative retrieval. [10] [11] [12]
Bach is the author of around 25 academic publications, [13] and has written a book on cognitive science called Principles of Synthetic Intelligence. [14] [15]
He has also worked extensively on novel data compression algorithm using concurrent entropy models. [16][ failed verification]
Between 2013 and 2017, Bach was attributed research funding by Jeffrey Epstein charitable funds, according to fact-finding reports from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [17] [18] [19]
Joscha Bach | |
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![]() Bach in 2013 | |
Born |
Weimar, Germany | December 21, 1973
Nationality | German |
Alma mater |
Humboldt University of Berlin (MA) Osnabrück University (PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
Cognitive Science Artificial Intelligence Computer Science |
Institutions |
Intel AI Foundation Harvard MIT Media Lab |
Thesis | Principles of Synthetic Intelligence; Building Blocks for an Architecture of Motivated Cognition (2006) |
Doctoral advisor |
Dietrich Dörner Kai-Uwe Kühnberger |
Website |
bach |
Joscha Bach (born 1973 in Weimar, East Germany) is a German artificial intelligence researcher and cognitive scientist focusing on cognitive architectures, mental representation, emotion, social modeling, and multi-agent systems. [1]
Bach was born and grew up in East Germany. His parents are architect and artist Jochen Bach, and Gisa Bach. He is part of the Bach family. [2]
He received an MA ( computer science) from Humboldt-Universität Berlin in 2000 and a PhD ( cognitive science) from Osnabrück University in 2006. [3] [4] [5] [6]
Bach has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabrück. He worked as a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. [7]
He then joined AI Foundation, working as VP of Research. [6] Between March 2021 and January 2023, he was a Principal AI Engineer at Intel Labs Cognitive Computing group. [8] He currently serves on AI Foundation's Advisory Council. [9]
Bach built MicroPsi, a cognitive architecture extending representations of the Psi-theory with taxonomies, inheritance and linguistic labeling; MicroPsi's spreading activation networks allow for neural learning, planning and associative retrieval. [10] [11] [12]
Bach is the author of around 25 academic publications, [13] and has written a book on cognitive science called Principles of Synthetic Intelligence. [14] [15]
He has also worked extensively on novel data compression algorithm using concurrent entropy models. [16][ failed verification]
Between 2013 and 2017, Bach was attributed research funding by Jeffrey Epstein charitable funds, according to fact-finding reports from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [17] [18] [19]