Edmund Ronald
Edmund M. A. Ronald is a computer scientist known for contributions to evolutionary computation, neuroevolution, and artificial life. He co-pioneered the NeuroGenetic approach to neural network training and developed an influential operational definition of emergence.
Career
Ronald was a researcher at the Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées (CMAP) at École Polytechnique in Palaiseau, France, and an affiliate of the Logic Systems Laboratory at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland.[1][2] He worked as an expert at the International Color Consortium.[citation needed]
Research
Neuroevolution
In 1994, Ronald and Marc Schoenauer pioneered the use of genetic algorithms to evolve neural network weights, a technique now called "NeuroGenetic."[1] This work demonstrated that evolutionary methods could train neural networks without labeled training data, using evolution as unsupervised learning.[3]
Emergence test
Ronald's most cited work, "Design, Observation, Surprise! A Test of Emergence" (1999), co-authored with Moshe Sipper and Mathieu S. Capcarrère, proposed an operational definition of emergence based on three criteria: design, observation, and surprise.[4] The paper was republished in Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science (MIT Press, 2008).[5]
Artificial Evolution conference
Ronald co-founded the Artificial Evolution conference in 1994 with Jean-Marc Alliot, Evelyne Lutton, and Marc Schoenauer, establishing a forum for French-speaking evolutionary computation research.[citation needed]
Selected publications
- Ronald, E.; Schoenauer, M. (1994). "Genetic lander: An experiment in accurate neuro-genetic control". PPSN III. LNCS. 866. pp. 452–461. Search this book on
- Ronald, E.M.A.; Sipper, M.; Capcarrère, M.S. (1999). "Design, Observation, Surprise! A Test of Emergence". Artificial Life. 5 (3): 225–239.
- Ronald, E.M.A.; Sipper, M. (2001). "Surprise versus Unsurprise: Implications of Emergence in Robotics". Robotics and Autonomous Systems. 37: 19–24.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ronald, E.; Schoenauer, M. (1994). "Genetic lander: An experiment in accurate neuro-genetic control". Parallel Problem Solving from Nature — PPSN III. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 866. Springer. pp. 452–461. Search this book on
- ↑ Ronald, E.M.A.; Sipper, M.; Capcarrère, M.S. (1999). "Testing for Emergence in Artificial Life". Advances in Artificial Life (ECAL 1999). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 1674. Springer. pp. 13–20. Search this book on
- ↑ Bergel, A. (2020). "Neuroevolution". Agile Artificial Intelligence in Pharo. Search this book on
- ↑ Ronald, E.M.A.; Sipper, M.; Capcarrère, M.S. (1999). "Design, Observation, Surprise! A Test of Emergence". Artificial Life. MIT Press. 5 (3): 225–239. doi:10.1162/106454699568755.
- ↑ Bedau, M.A.; Humphreys, P., eds. (2008). "Design, Observation, Surprise! A Test of Emergence". Emergence: Contemporary Readings in Philosophy and Science. MIT Press. Search this book on
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