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Lee Spector is a Professor of Computer Science
in the School of Cognitive
Science at Hampshire College. He received a B.A. in Philosophy from Oberlin College in 1984, and a Ph.D. from the Department of Computer
Science at the University of Maryland in 1992. At Hampshire he has held the MacArthur Chair,
served as the elected faculty member of the Board of Trustees, and
served as the Dean of the School of Cognitive Science. He supervises
the Hampshire College Cluster
Computing Facility. He has received the
highest honor bestowed by the National Science Foundation for
excellence in both teaching and research, the NSF Director's Award for
Distinguished Teaching Scholars (press releases: NSF, Hampshire). He has won several
other awards and honors, including two gold medals in the Human
Competitive Results contest of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation
Conference (2008 press
release, 2004 information) and election as a
fellow of the International Society for Genetic and Evolutionary
Computation (press release). Dr. Spector teaches and conducts research in artificial intelligence, artificial life, and a variety of areas at the intersections of computer science with cognitive science, physics, evolutionary biology, and the arts. He has produced over 80 scientific publications including his book: Automatic Quantum Computer Programming: A Genetic Programming Approach, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers in 2004 and reissued in paperback by Springer in 2007. He was Editor-in-Chief for the Proceedings of the 2001 GECCO (Genetic and Evolutionary Computation) conference and has served as a track chair, organizer, and reviewer for several other conferences. He was lead editor for Advances in Genetic Programming, Volume 3, published by MIT Press (MIT Press page, list of chapters and text from the Introduction). He also writes for general audiences, including a recent OpEd piece in The Boston Globe (The Globe's page, local copy). Dr. Spector is a member of the Executive Committee of the ACM Special Interest Group on Evolutionary Computation (SIGEVO), an Associate Editor for the journal Genetic Programming and Evolvable Machines, and a member of the editorial board of the journal Evolutionary Computation. |
