Harry Foundalis

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Harry Foundalis (Χάρης Φουνταλής, born April 14th, 1962, in Edessa, Greece) is a cognitive scientist. His has worked on his Ph.D with Douglas Hofstadter at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, and developed Phaeaco, an architecture to solve Bongard problems, a work for which he has received the University's Dissertation Award ^[1]. He has also studied in the University of Alabama at Birmingham for an M.Sc in computer science, and at the University of Crete for a B.S. in mathematics. Though he has focused most of his work on Bongard Problems, he also written papers on other areas, such as the evolution of language.

His work has been mentioned in publications such as the Association of Computing Machinery's "Intelligence"^[2] and Dr. Dobbs's "AI Newsletter"^[3]. His work is also used in Artificial Intelligence courses in Dartmouth College^[4]. Ole Eichhorn, Chief Technology Officer of Aperio and former Senior Vice President of PayPal, considers Foundalis' work on Bongard problems impressive ^[5].

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Foundalis, H. (2006) Phaeaco: A Cognitive Architecture Inspired by Bongard's Problems, Ph.D. Thesis, Indiana University, Bloomington, 438p.

Foundalis, H. (2002) Evolution of Gender in Indo-European Languages, Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Fairfax, Virginia.

Foundalis, H., and Martinez, M. (2007) A Generalization of Hebbian Learning in Perceptual and Conceptual Categorization, Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece, pp. 312–317

Foundalis, H. (1987) A type-scheme for a theorem-proving language. M.Sc Thesis, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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[edit] External links

foundalis.com - Dr. Foundalis homepage