Recent News
Subscribe to the JeffCluneResearch Google Group to be emailed similar news in the future.- 02/2014. The Evolving AI lab submitted its first four paper for peer-review!
- 01/2014. The Laramie Robotics Club is featured as one of the marquee scrolling images on the homepage of the University. Here is the full text of the article.
- 12/2013. An article about the Laramie Robotics club was featured in the Laramie Boomerang and then picked up in the Miami Herald and Houston Chronicle.
- 11/2013. The University of Wyoming launched an ad campaign featuring the Evolving AI Lab.
- 10/2013. A team of us founded the Laramie Robotics Club to teach local middle school and high school students a love for programming, science, technology, engineering, and math.
- 06/2013. The BBC covers my work on designing objects via thought (brain scanning) and gaze (eye-tracking) alone. I am a member of the Cornell team.
- 06/2013. Servo Magazine writes about our open-source 3D printed robot Aracna
- 04/2013. NBC News, Discover Magazine, Discover News and other media outlets wrote articles about my work evolving soft, virtual robots that learn to move around. You can read those articles here, view the paper here, or watch the video.
- 04/2013. In Vienna at the EvoStar conference I presented the following new publication: Lee S, Yosinski J, Glette K, Lipson H, Clune J (2013) Evolving gaits for physical robots with the HyperNEAT generative encoding: the benefits of simulation. Applications of Evolutionary Computing. 540-549. Springer. (pdf) (video)
- 03/2013. We published the following new paper: Clune J, Chen A, Lipson H (2013) Upload Any Object and Evolve it: Injecting Complex Geometric Patterns into CPPNs for Further Evolution. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation. (pdf)
- 02/2013. Fast Company published an article about my work on evolving artificially intelligent robots.
- 01/2013. A National Geographic article written by the great science writer Carl Zimmer covers my recent paper on the evolutionary origins of modularity.
- 01/2013. Our paper The Evolutionary Origins of Modularity was published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society. Here is a two-minute video summary
- 11/2012. An article about my work appeared in the Cornell Daily Sun
- 10/2012. I made a new video about my work evolving gaits for robots
- 10/2012. NPR asked me to read a short general-audience summary of my recent paper in the American Naturalist
- 10/2012. MIT's Technology review has a great article on my recent paper on the evolution of modularity
- 09/2012. I am pleased to announce that I have accepted a faculty position at the University of Wyoming. I will be starting a new lab there in January 2013. I am currently recruiting students and postdocs. Click here for information about the positions, which also contains a description of the research areas my lab will focus on
- 09/2012. EndlessForms.com makes an appearance in an interesting article by Hod Lipson in the magazine Mechanical Engineering called Design in the age of 3-D printing
- 09/2012. I will be giving a talk at the University of Texas Sept. 14th.
- 08/2012. EndlessForms.com was voted one of the top 35 websites in the 3D printing industry
- 07/2012. My paper "Ontogeny tends to recapitulate phylogeny in digital organisms" with Richard E. Lenski, Charles Ofria, and Robert T. Pennock was published in The American Naturalist. (pdf) (Phys.org article)
- 07/2012. My colleagues and I have a new paper describing a 3D-printed robot platform called Aracna. (pdf) Jason Yosinski won a Best Presentation Award for the talk about this paper at Alife.
- 05/2012. A video about EndlessForms was accepted for the AAAI Video Competition.
- 04/2012. My paper "Ontogeny tends to recapitulate phylogeny in digital organisms" with Richard E. Lenski, Charles Ofria, and Robert T. Pennock was accepted for publication in The American Naturalist.
- 03/2012. I recently gave invited talks at the University of Canterbury (Christchurch, New Zealand), the University of Wyoming, and the University of Puerto Rico.
- 11/2011. My paper with Hod Lipson describing the algorithm behind EndlessForms.com is the cover article in current issue of SigEvolution, the ACM's newsletter on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.
- 9/2011. The New Scientist ran an article (mentioned on the cover) describing a few of my different research projects.
- 8/2011. We launched EndlessForms.com, a website where you can design objects with evolution and 3D print them. Press coverage included MSNBC.com, the New Scientist, Slashdot, MIT's Technology Review, KurzweilAI.net, and over 50 more outlets.
- The following journal paper was published: Clune J, Stanley KO, Pennock RT, Ofria C (2011) On the performance of indirect encoding across the continuum of regularity. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation. 15(3): 346-367. (pdf)
- The following journal paper was published. Clune J, Goldsby HJ, Ofria C, and Pennock RT (2011) Selective pressures for accurate altruism targeting: Evidence from digital evolution for difficult-to-test aspects of inclusive fitness theory. Proceedings of the Royal Society. 278: 666-674. (pdf)
