Hiroaki Kitano

The unified theme of my research is "emergence and evolution of intelligence". Diverse approach must be taken to tackle this grand problem. As a basic research, I am focusing on computional aspects of the evolution of neurogenesis and morphogenesis. Research on the high-level intelligence is based on the genetic supervision theory and active perception, so that phenomena such as emotion and selective attention can be incorporated. In the long run, these issues will be integrated as ``Symbiotic Systems Theory''. A robust real-time translation of closed-caption and entertainment applications are expected fruits of these basic research.

New Version (Under Construction)

Sony CSL RoboCup-98 Team

Virtual Biology Laboratories Project

Publication (Complete List)

Selected List

Kitano, H. and Hendler, J. (Eds.), "Massively Parallel Artificial Intelligence," The MIT Press, 1994.
Kitano, H., "Speech-to-speech translation: a massively parallel memory-based approach," Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1993.
Kitano, H., "Challenges of Massive Parallelism: The Computers and Thought Award Lecture, " Proc. of IJCAI-93, 1993.
Kitano, H., "Designing Neural Networks using Genetic Algorithm with Graph Generation System," Complex Systems, 4, 461-476, 1990.

Awards

The Computers and Thought Award, 1993. From the International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence
JCD Design Award, 1996. From the Japanese Society of Commercial Space Designers, for the design of Boutique Gomme at La Foret Harajuku, Shibuya, Tokyo

Professional Activities (Partial Listings)

RoboCup

Chairperson, The International Committee for RoboCup

Journal Editors

Associate Editor, Journal of Evolutionary Computing, MIT Press
Associate Editor, Journal of Applied AI
Editorial Board, Journal of Artificial Life, MIT Press
Editorial Board, Journal of AI Research, NASA Ames Research
Editorial Board, Journal of Theoretical and Experimental AI (JETAI)

Conference Committee

Current Involvement

IJCAI Liaison Officer, International Joint Conferences for Artificial Intelligence
International Committee, International Conference on Evolutionary Computing
Program Co-Chair, International Conference on Evolutionary Computing, Nagoya, 1996
Program Co-Chair, Artificial Life V, Nara, 1996
Program Committee, International Conference on Evolutionary Computing, Pearth, 1995.
Program Committee, International Conference on Knowledge Representation (KR-96), 1996.
Program Committee, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-96), 1996.

Past Involvment (Partial List)

Program Chair, IEEE International Symposium on Evolutionary Computing, Orland, 1994
Program Committee, AAAI-94, Seattle, 1994
Advisory Board, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence 1995