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Carlos Gershenson

I am a full time researcher at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

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Carlos Gershenson

Recent work

new! Why Does Public Transport Not Arrive on Time? The Pervasiveness of Equal Headway Instability. PLoS ONE 4(10): e7292 (together with Luis Pineda)

new! Modeling self-organizing traffic lights with elementary cellular automata (together with David Rosenblueth).

new! Enfrentando a la Complejidad: Predecir vs. Adaptar.

book cover I edited the book Complexity: 5 Questions, which gathers short interviews with leading figures in the field.

I co-edited with Tom Lenaerts special issue on the "Evolution of Complexity", for the Artificial Life journal.

book cover I defended my PhD thesis on Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems (see media coverage)

book coverThe book "Worldviews, Science, and Us: Philosophy and Complexity", edited by myself, Diederik Aerts, and Bruce Edmonds was recently published.

The World as Evolving Information.

Programming projects (including source code) 1996 - .

About Me

I am a Mexican researcher. I have a wide variety of academic interests, including self-organizing systems, complexity, artificial life, evolution, cognition, artificial societies, and philosophy. I am a full time researcher at the Computer Sciences Department of the Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas (IIMAS) of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). I am also a researcher at the Centro de Ciencias de la Complejidad (C3) of the UNAM. I am Editor-in-Chief of Complexity Digest, Book Review Editor of Artificial Life, Complexity-at-Large Editor of Complexity, and webmaster of alife.org.

I did a PhD on "Design and Control of Self-organizing Systems" at the Center Leo Apostel for Interdisciplinary Studies of the Dutch-speaking Free University of Brussels. My promoters were Francis Heylighen, Diederik Aerts, and Bart D'Hooghe. Afterwards I did a postdoc at the New England Complex Systems Institute with Yaneer Bar-Yam. My homepage from that period is here.

I studied the MSc in Evolutionary and Adaptive Systems in the School of Cognitive and Computer Sciences (COGS) of the University of Sussex (2001-2002). My thesis "A Comparison of Different Cognitive Paradigms Using Simple Animats in a Virtual Laboratory, with Implications to the Notion of Cognition" was supervised by Chris Thornton and Inman Harvey. You can find my webpage from that period here.

Before that, I did a BEng in Computer Engineering at the Fundación Arturo Rosenblueth in Mexico City (1996-2001), from which my thesis was "Artificial Societies of Intelligent Agents". My advisors were José Negrete Martínez, Pedro Pablo González Pérez, and Jaime Lagunez Otero. During this period I also collaborated with Jaime Lagunez's group at the Instituto de Química, UNAM and coursed five semesters of Philosophy at the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, UNAM. My webpage from my undergraduate years can be found here: Los Hijos de Khärlyl You will find most of my scientific and philosophical work, papers, computer programs, and art of those bygone days (1997-2001).

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Contact details

Dr. Carlos Gershenson
Computer Sciences Department
Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Aplicadas y en Sistemas
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Ciudad Universitaria, A.P. 20-726
01000 México D.F., México

Phone: +52 55 56 22 36 19
Fax: +52 55 56 22 36 20
Email: cggunam.mx
http://turing.iimas.unam.mx/~cgg/

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