Hod Lipson

 ( 1967 Births ) 

Beginning in 2009, he and his Cornell University graduate student Michael Schmidt developed a software named Eureqa capable of deriving equations, mathematical relationships and laws of nature from sets of data: for instance, deriving Newton's second law of motion from a data set of positions and velocities of a double pendulum. The New York Times "Hal, Call Your Office: Computers That Act Like Physicists " By Kenneth Chang Published: April 2, 2009 In 2011, it was reported that Eureqa had succeeded at a much more complex task: re-deriving seven equations describing how levels of various chemical compounds fluctuate in oxygen-deprived yeast cells.

In research on robotic self-awareness he advocates "self-simulation" as preliminary stage.

Lipson has been involved with teams that have created a number of machines including:

• Fab@Home —low cost "3-d printers"
• Self replicating robots—simple structures capable of reproducing themselves given the appropriate parts.
• "Self Aware Robots"—machines capable of compensating for damage that would otherwise impede movement.
• Molecubes self-reproducing robots.

• Columbia Creative Machines Lab homepage
• (TED2007)
• with Cory Doctorow, Michael Belfiore, and Eliezer Yudkowsky at the Quantum to Cosmos festival.