Thomas Miconi
t.miconi@cs.bham.ac.uk
Laboratoire Cerveau et Cognition (CERCO)
CNRS - UMR 5549
133 Route de Narbonne
31062 Toulouse, France
+33 562
173 770
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I am currently a postdoctoral researcher in Rufin VanRullen's team at the
CerCo lab, working on neural models
of visual scene perception.
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Science is...
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"During the Middle Ages there were all kinds of crazy ideas, such as that a
piece of rhinoceros horn would increase potency. Then a method was discovered
for separating the ideas -- which was to try one to see if it worked, and if it
didn't work, to eliminate it. This method became organized, of course, into
science." (Richard Feynman).
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"...The basic premise of the scientific method, to wit, that nature is
objective and not projective." (Jacques
Monod)
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Thesis
Ph.D. thesis: "The Road to Everywhere: Evolution,
Complexity and Progress in Natural and Artificial Systems". Unofficial
subtitle: "Everything you vaguely thought you'd like to know about evolution,
but couldn't really be bothered to ask." Accepted 10 Oct. 2007. [HTML version] [PDF version]
Publications
- Why Coevolution Doesn't "Work": Superiority and
Progress in Coevolution. T. Miconi, in L. Vanneschi, S. Gustafson, A.
Moraglio, I De Falco, and M. Ebner (Eds.): Proceedings of the 12th European
Conference on Genetic programming (EuroGP 2009), LNCS 5481, 2009, Springer.
- Fitness Transmission: A Genealogic Signature
of Adaptive Evolution. T. Miconi, in S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. Watson and
M. Bedau (Eds.): Proceedings of the 11th conference on the simulation and
synthesis of living systems (ALIFE XI), 2008, MIT Press.
- Evosphere: evolutionary dynamics in a population
of fighting virtual creatures. T. Miconi, in Proceedings of the IEEE
Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2008), Hong Kong, 2008, in press.
- In Silicon No One Can Hear You Scream:
Evolving Fighting Creatures. T. Miconi, in M. O'Neill et al. (Eds.):
EuroGP 2008, LNCS 4971, p. 25, 2008, Springer.
- Evolution and Complexity: The Double-Edged
Sword. T. Miconi, Artificial Life, vol. 14, n. 3, 2008. MIT Press.
- The N-Strikes-Out Algorithm: A Steady-State
Algorithm for Coevolution. T. Miconi and A. Channon, in Proceedings of
the 2006 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (CEC 2006),
Vancouver, Canada, 2006, IEEE Press. Best session paper award.
- An Improved System for Artificial Creatures
Evolution. T. Miconi and A. Channon, in L.M. Rocha et al. (Eds.):
Proceedings of the 10th conference on the simulation and synthesis of living
systems (ALIFE X), Bloomington, Indiana, USA, 2006, MIT Press.
- Analysing coevolution among artificial 3D
creatures. T. Miconi and A. Channon, in E. G. Talbi et al. (Eds.):
Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Artificial Evolution (Evolution
Artificielle 2005), Lille, France, October 2005, LNCS 3871, Springer-Verlag.
- A virtual creatures model for studies in artificial
evolution. T. Miconi and A. Channon, in David Corne et al. (Eds.):
Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation (CEC 2005),
Edinburgh, UK, September 2005, IEEE Press.
- When evolving populations is better than
coevolving individuals: the Blind Mice problem (Also in ps.gz version), T. Miconi, in Georg Gottlob,
Toby Walsh (Eds.): Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Joint Conference
on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI '03), Acapulco, Mexico, August 2003, Morgan
Kaufmann.
- A collective genetic algorithm (Zipped
collection of JPEG pictures of the pages of the article), T. Miconi, in L.
Spector, E.D. Goodman, A. Wu, W.B. Langdon, H.-M. Voigt, M. Gen, S. Sen,
M. Dorigo, S. Pezeshk, M.H. Garzon and E. Burke, eds: Proceedings of the
Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2001), Morgan Kaufmann.
And that's about it.
Projects
Evolved creatures ! With videos
and source code.
Does complexity increase in evolution? Yes,
but maybe not in the way you think. Accepted for publication by Artificial
Life.
What is life? --Yet Another Attempt at a Definition
of Life.
A paper on detecting
Darwinian evolution by analysing genealogic records - submitted to the
Artificial Life journal.
Nature-Inspired Design: Music, a lecture
given for the Nature Inspired Design module of the M.Sc. in Natural Computation
at the University of Birmingham, in 2006 and 2007.
My thesis proposal.
Log - not really for public viewing.
Unpublished documents
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