Steve Omohundro

Stephen M. Omohundro is a computer scientist specializing in artificial intelligence.

He graduated from Stanford University with degrees in Physics and Mathematics. He received a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of California, Berkeley and published the book "Geometric Perturbation Theory in Physics" based on his thesis. [http://steveomohundro.com/test-first-page/ Biography « Steve Omohundro ] ]

At Thinking Machines Corporation, he developed Star Lisp, the first programming language for the Connection Machine, with Cliff Lasser. From 1986 to 1988, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and cofounder of the Center for Complex Systems Research.

He subsequently joined the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley, California, where he led the development of the object-oriented programming language Sather in 1990 and developed novel neural network and machine learning algorithms. He subsequently was a Research scientist at the NEC Research Institute, working on machine learning and computer vision, and was a co-inventor of U.S. Patent 5,696,964, "Multimedia Database Retrieval System Which Maintains a Posterior Probability Distribution That Each Item in the Database is a Target of a Search" [US patent|5696964]

He then started the consultancy OLO Software, and is now President of Self-Aware Systems in Palo Alto, California. He has been an advisor to the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence since April 2007.

Publications

* Christoph Bregler, Stephen Omohundro, Michelle Covell, Malcolm Slaney, Subutai Ahmad, David Forsyth, Jerry Feldman, "Probabilistic Models of Verbal and Body Gestures" in Computer Vision in Man-Machine Interfaces, eds. R. Cipolla and A. Pentland, Cambridge University Press, 1998.
* Christoph Bregler and Stephen M. Omohundro, "Learning Visual Motion Models for Lip Reading" in Motion-Based Recognition, eds. M. Sha and R. Jain, Kluwer Academic Press, 1997.
* Stephen M. Omohundro, "Family Discovery", in Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 8, eds. D. S. Touretzky, M. C. Mozer and M. E. Hasselmo, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1996.
* Christoph Bregler and Stephen M. Omohundro, "Surface Learning with Applications to Lipreading", in Cowan, J. D., Tesauro, G., and Alspector, J., (eds.) Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 6, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, San Francisco, CA, 1994
* Stephen M. Omohundro, "The Sather Programming Language", Dr. Dobb's Journal, Volume 18, Issue 11, October 1993, p. 42.
* Stephen M. Omohundro, "Geometric Learning Algorithms" Physica D, 42 (1990) 307-321
* Stephen M. Omohundro, "Modelling Cellular Automata with Partial Differential Equations", Physica D, 10D (1984) 128-134

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