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Moshe Sipper
received the B.A. degree from the Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology,
and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Tel Aviv University, all
in computer science. He is currently an Associate Professor in the
Department of Computer Science, Ben-Gurion University, Israel.
During the years 1995-2001 he was a Senior Researcher in the Swiss Federal
Institute of Technology in Lausanne.
Dr. Sipper's current research focus is on evolutionary computation,
mainly as applied to games and bioinformatics. Other interests include
bio-inspired computing, artificial life, cellular
computing, cellular automata, artificial self-replication,
evolutionary robotics, artificial neural networks, and fuzzy logic.
Dr. Sipper has published over 120 scientific papers,
and is the author of two books:
Machine Nature: The Coming Age of Bio-Inspired Computing
and
Evolution of Parallel Cellular Machines:
The Cellular Programming Approach.
He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
and an Editorial Board Member of Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines.
Dr. Sipper and his students won two
Human-Competitive Awards ("Humies") --
A Silver Award in 2007 and a Bronze Award in 2005 -- for their work on attaining
human-competitive game playing with genetic programming. Dr. Sipper is the recipient
of the 1999 EPFL Latsis Prize.
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