Professor Hugo de Garis is associate professor of computer science and adjunct professor of theoretical physics at Utah State University, Utah, USA, teaching the world’s first Ph. D. course on “artificial brain building” and “frontiers of computing” (quantum computing, nanotechnology, quantum dots, molecular computing, reversible computing, membrane computing, cellular computing, etc). Prof de Garis is the father of the research field “evolovable hardware,” which he got off the ground, starting in 1992. He evolves neural net circuits directly in hardware at hardware speeds to build artificial brains, then aims to assemble 10,000s of these evolved circuit modules into 100 million neuron artificial brain architectures. Prof. de Garis is also a political visionary, predicting a “gigadeath” war over the issue of “species dominance” as godlike massively intelligent machines he calls “artilects” threaten human species dominance. He intends to organize the planet’s first international conference on “Species Dominance” and is author of the manuscript The Artilect War.

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