FEC - School of Computing
School of Computing

Dr
Mark
Humphrys

Primary Department
Faculty of Engineering and Computing
Role
Assistant Professor
Work Area/Key Responsibilities
Computing
Assistant Professor
Phone number: 01 700
8059
Website
https://www.computing.dcu.ie/~humphrys/
Campus
Glasnevin Campus
Room Number
L2.25

Academic biography


  • Research interests:
    • Action Selection.
    • Reinforcement Learning.
    • Society of Mind models.
    • Multiple competing subminds models.
    • Multi-author hybrid AI systems.
    • AI in JavaScript.

  • BSc (Joint Honours) in Mathematics and Computer Science, University College Dublin.
  • PhD in Computer Science, University of Cambridge.
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Edinburgh.

  • Supervised 4 PhD students to completion.
  • Publications have 686 citations. h-index of 11.
  • Wrote the first ever chatbot on the Internet that did not say it was a chatbot. This program arguably passed the Turing Test in 1989 and is still getting research coverage and media coverage today.

  • Current project is Ancient Brain, a JavaScript coding site for education (in schools and colleges) and research (in AI). Currently hosting 8,196 projects from 2,094 coders.

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