Emergent Computation
Connectionism
Other Research 
Don't undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible.
- Edwin Land
Emergent Computation
Connectionism
Other Research
Emergent Computation is computation that exploits the self-organizing, collective, competitive, and cooperative phenomena arising from the interaction of large numbers of units obeying local dynamical laws.
More briefly, emergent computation is the study of how high-level representation and processing of information can emerge from the interactions of large numbers of simple processors. The term "emergent computation" was coined by Stephanie Forrest, though the preceding definitions are my own.
My emergent computation research is concentrated in three areas:
Connectionism is an approach to artificial intelligence and cognitive modeling based on the use of simplified neural network models.
My connectionist research is concentrated in three overlapping areas:
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