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'''Eric B. Baum''',<br/>
an American physicist, computer scientist and [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]] researcher. He earned [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergraduate_degree undergraduate] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgraduate_education graduate degrees] at [[Harvard University]] and a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy Ph.D.] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics physics] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University Princeton University]. He has held positions at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology California Institute of Technology], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], Princeton, and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_Corporation_of_America NEC Research Institute]. His research interests include [[Learning|machine learning]], [[Neural Networks|neural networks]], [[Genetic Programming#GeneticAlgorithm|genetic algorithms]] and [[Search|game tree search]], in particular the [[BPIP-DFISA]] (Best play for imperfect players - Depth free independent staircase approximation) search control model. Currently, he is developing algorithms based on machine learning and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference bayesian reasoning] to found a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund hedge fund] <ref>[https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/eric-b-baum Eric B. Baum | The MIT Press]</ref>. Eric Baum is known for his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism materialist] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution evolutionist] theories of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence intelligence] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness consciousness], set forth in his book ''What is Thought?'' <ref>[http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.eric.b.baum Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Dr. Eric B. Baum]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://www.whatisthought.com/eric.html Eric B. Baum's Research]</ref> <ref>[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Baum:Eric_B= dblp: Eric B. Baum]</ref>
==1987 ...==
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wilczek Frank Wilczek] ('''1987'''). ''[http://papers.nips.cc/paper/3-supervised-learning-of-probability-distributions-by-neural-networks Supervised Learning of Probability Distributions by Neural Networks]''. [http://papers.nips.cc/book/neural-information-processing-systems-1987 NIPS 1987]
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Mathematician#DHHaussler|David Haussler]] ('''1988'''). ''[http://papers.nips.cc/paper/154-what-size-net-gives-valid-generalization What Size Net Gives Valid Generalization?]'' [http://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-1-1988 NIPS 1988]
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''1988'''). ''[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0885064X88900209 On the capabilities of multilayer perceptrons]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity_%28journal%29 Complexity], Vol. 4, No. 3
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''1989'''). ''[http://papers.nips.cc/paper/226-the-perceptron-algorithm-is-fast-for-non-malicious-distributions The Perceptron Algorithm Is Fast for Non-Malicious Distributions]''. [http://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-2-1989 NIPS 1989]
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''1989'''). ''[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/neco.1989.1.2.201#.VfGX0JdpluM A Proposal for More Powerful Learning Algorithms]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_Computation_%28journal%29 Neural Computation], Vol. 1, No. 2
==1990 ...==
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''1990'''). ''Polynomial Time Algorithms for Learning Neural Nets''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/colt/colt1990.html#Baum90 COLT 1990]
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''1992'''). ''On Optimal Game Tree Propagation for Imperfect Players''. [[AAAI|AAAI-92]], [http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1992/AAAI92-078.pdf pdf]
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Boneh Dan Boneh], [[Charles Garrett]] ('''1995'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=225326 On Genetic Algorithms]''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/colt/colt1995.html#BaumBG95 COLT 1995]
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Warren D. Smith]] ('''1995'''). ''Best Play for Imperfect Players and Game Tree Search''. Part 1 - Theory
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Warren D. Smith]] ('''1995'''). ''Best Play for Imperfect Players and Game Tree Search''. with pseudocode appendix by [[Charles Garrett]], [http://scorevoting.net/WarrenSmithPages/homepage/bpip1.ps ps]
* [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Charles Garrett]], [[Rico Tudor]] ('''1995'''). ''Best Play for Imperfect Players and Game Tree Search''. Part 2 - Experiments, [http://scorevoting.net/WarrenSmithPages/homepage/bpip2.ps ps]
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''1996'''). ''Toward a Model of Mind as a Laissez-Faire Economy of Idiots''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icml/icml1996.html#Baum96 ICML 1996]
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Warren D. Smith]] ('''1997'''). ''A Bayesian Approach to Relevance in Game Playing''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 97, [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.26.7961 CiteSeerX]
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Warren D. Smith]] ('''1999'''). ''[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/089976699300016881#.VfGWUpdpluM Propagating Distributions Up Directed Acyclic Graphs]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_Computation_%28journal%29 Neural Computation], Vol. 11, No. 1
==2000 ...==
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Igor Durdanovic]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/089976600300014700#.VfGbP5dpluM Evolution of Cooperative Problem Solving in an Artificial Economy]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_Computation_%28journal%29 Neural Computation], Vol. 12, No. 12, [http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs286r/courses/spring06/papers/baum_nc00.pdf pdf]
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Boneh Dan Boneh], [[Charles Garrett]] ('''2001'''). ''[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/10636560151075130#.VfGaSZdpluM Where Genetic Algorithms Excel]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_Computation_%28journal%29 Evolutionary Computation], Vol. 9, No. 1
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''2004'''). ''[http://www.whatisthought.com/ What is Thought?]'' Bradford Book
=External Links=
* [http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.eric.b.baum Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Dr. Eric B. Baum]
* [http://www.whatisthought.com/ What is Thought? - homepage]
* [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/eric-baum/0/273/64a Eric Baum | LinkedIn]
=References=
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'''Eric B. Baum''',<br/>
an American physicist, computer scientist and [[Artificial Intelligence|artificial intelligence]] researcher. He earned [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undergraduate_degree undergraduate] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postgraduate_education graduate degrees] at [[Harvard University]] and a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_Philosophy Ph.D.] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physics physics] at [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University Princeton University]. He has held positions at the [[University of California, Berkeley]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institute_of_Technology California Institute of Technology], [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], Princeton, and the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NEC_Corporation_of_America NEC Research Institute]. His research interests include [[Learning|machine learning]], [[Neural Networks|neural networks]], [[Genetic Programming#GeneticAlgorithm|genetic algorithms]] and [[Search|game tree search]], in particular the [[BPIP-DFISA]] (Best play for imperfect players - Depth free independent staircase approximation) search control model. Currently, he is developing algorithms based on machine learning and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference bayesian reasoning] to found a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedge_fund hedge fund] <ref>[https://mitpress.mit.edu/contributors/eric-b-baum Eric B. Baum | The MIT Press]</ref>. Eric Baum is known for his [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Materialism materialist] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolution evolutionist] theories of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence intelligence] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consciousness consciousness], set forth in his book ''What is Thought?'' <ref>[http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.eric.b.baum Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Dr. Eric B. Baum]</ref>.
=Selected Publications=
<ref>[http://www.whatisthought.com/eric.html Eric B. Baum's Research]</ref> <ref>[http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/b/Baum:Eric_B= dblp: Eric B. Baum]</ref>
==1987 ...==
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Wilczek Frank Wilczek] ('''1987'''). ''[http://papers.nips.cc/paper/3-supervised-learning-of-probability-distributions-by-neural-networks Supervised Learning of Probability Distributions by Neural Networks]''. [http://papers.nips.cc/book/neural-information-processing-systems-1987 NIPS 1987]
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Mathematician#DHHaussler|David Haussler]] ('''1988'''). ''[http://papers.nips.cc/paper/154-what-size-net-gives-valid-generalization What Size Net Gives Valid Generalization?]'' [http://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-1-1988 NIPS 1988]
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''1988'''). ''[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0885064X88900209 On the capabilities of multilayer perceptrons]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complexity_%28journal%29 Complexity], Vol. 4, No. 3
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''1989'''). ''[http://papers.nips.cc/paper/226-the-perceptron-algorithm-is-fast-for-non-malicious-distributions The Perceptron Algorithm Is Fast for Non-Malicious Distributions]''. [http://papers.nips.cc/book/advances-in-neural-information-processing-systems-2-1989 NIPS 1989]
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''1989'''). ''[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/neco.1989.1.2.201#.VfGX0JdpluM A Proposal for More Powerful Learning Algorithms]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_Computation_%28journal%29 Neural Computation], Vol. 1, No. 2
==1990 ...==
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''1990'''). ''Polynomial Time Algorithms for Learning Neural Nets''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/colt/colt1990.html#Baum90 COLT 1990]
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''1992'''). ''On Optimal Game Tree Propagation for Imperfect Players''. [[AAAI|AAAI-92]], [http://www.aaai.org/Papers/AAAI/1992/AAAI92-078.pdf pdf]
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Boneh Dan Boneh], [[Charles Garrett]] ('''1995'''). ''[http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=225326 On Genetic Algorithms]''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/colt/colt1995.html#BaumBG95 COLT 1995]
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Warren D. Smith]] ('''1995'''). ''Best Play for Imperfect Players and Game Tree Search''. Part 1 - Theory
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Warren D. Smith]] ('''1995'''). ''Best Play for Imperfect Players and Game Tree Search''. with pseudocode appendix by [[Charles Garrett]], [http://scorevoting.net/WarrenSmithPages/homepage/bpip1.ps ps]
* [[Warren D. Smith]], [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Charles Garrett]], [[Rico Tudor]] ('''1995'''). ''Best Play for Imperfect Players and Game Tree Search''. Part 2 - Experiments, [http://scorevoting.net/WarrenSmithPages/homepage/bpip2.ps ps]
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''1996'''). ''Toward a Model of Mind as a Laissez-Faire Economy of Idiots''. [http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/icml/icml1996.html#Baum96 ICML 1996]
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Warren D. Smith]] ('''1997'''). ''A Bayesian Approach to Relevance in Game Playing''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_Intelligence_%28journal%29 Artificial Intelligence], Vol. 97, [http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.26.7961 CiteSeerX]
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Warren D. Smith]] ('''1999'''). ''[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/089976699300016881#.VfGWUpdpluM Propagating Distributions Up Directed Acyclic Graphs]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_Computation_%28journal%29 Neural Computation], Vol. 11, No. 1
==2000 ...==
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [[Igor Durdanovic]] ('''2000'''). ''[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/089976600300014700#.VfGbP5dpluM Evolution of Cooperative Problem Solving in an Artificial Economy]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neural_Computation_%28journal%29 Neural Computation], Vol. 12, No. 12, [http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/cs286r/courses/spring06/papers/baum_nc00.pdf pdf]
* [[Eric B. Baum]], [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Boneh Dan Boneh], [[Charles Garrett]] ('''2001'''). ''[http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/10636560151075130#.VfGaSZdpluM Where Genetic Algorithms Excel]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_Computation_%28journal%29 Evolutionary Computation], Vol. 9, No. 1
* [[Eric B. Baum]] ('''2004'''). ''[http://www.whatisthought.com/ What is Thought?]'' Bradford Book
=External Links=
* [http://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.eric.b.baum Lifeboat Foundation Bios: Dr. Eric B. Baum]
* [http://www.whatisthought.com/ What is Thought? - homepage]
* [https://www.linkedin.com/pub/eric-baum/0/273/64a Eric Baum | LinkedIn]
=References=
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