OpenCog

Joel Pitt is a multidisciplinary scientist who has contributed to work in bioinformatics, artificial intelligence and more recently ecology and entomology. His PhD at Lincoln University [1], New Zealand, involved the development of a spatially explicit stochastic simulation model to investigate the spread of invasive species across variable landscapes. Joel obtained his B.Sc (Hons.) from the University of Canterbury [2] where he majored in computational biology and artificial intelligence and has also developed novel search algorithms for micro-satellite DNA sequences [3].

Joel's home page

What is Joel working on?

Updated: 14-Jan-2010

I am currently in Hong Kong as the team leader for a project using OpenCog to control game characters.

I am also interested in the follow projects, so feel free to contact me if you want to help out.

• PLN tasks - Making PLN more usable, cleaning the code, and implementing more of the theory.
• visualising and debugging the AtomSpace with a dynamic graph visualisation server.
• Distributed Architecture RFC and Storing the AtomSpace in HyperTable - using a scalable NoSQL DB to allow distributed storage of the AtomSpace, relegating the current AtomTable into an in-memory cache. My current favourite choice for the NoSQL DB to use is Riak.

For more detail see Joel's work log.

Stuff I've worked on or helped with

I can assist with development on these or questions on improving them:

• Python wrapper for the AtomSpace to speed up prototyping and implement non-computationally intensive mind processes. It could even provide a shell to working with the AtomSpace and OpenCog server, and use the above JSON-RPC to provide the connection.
• JSON-RPC API to allow remote access to OpenCog and the AtomSpace.

Contact

Joel is available on IRC: ferrouswheel on #opencog @ irc.freenode.net or by email.