Brain Building Reaches Journal Guest Editorship Status
The editor in chief of the journal "Neurocomputing" sent me an email recently inviting me to be the guest editor for a special issue on "Evolutionary Neural Systems". This is indeed an honor, since such guest editorship status is usually reserved for those people who are considered by their colleagues (or at least the chief editor) to be amongst the best in the world in a particular field. For me it shows there is growing acceptance for the kind of thing Im trying to do, i.e. use evolvable hardware techniques to build artificial brains. (The original idea to evolve FPGAs directly inside the chips, was mine, in 1992). I evolve in a few seconds each, 10,000s of neural net modules and then assemble them in large RAM memories according to humanly specified artificial brain architectures. The artificial brain is then updated at electronic speed by the same machine used to evolve the modules (called a CAM-Brain Macine (CBM)) in real time, fast enough to control hundreds of behaviors of robots.
I immediately contacted David Fogel and asked him to be on the team. He agreed. We will now assemble an editorial team and get the journal issue out in the coming months. It seems brain building is coming of age. I still get very emotional reactions from some of my more conservative colleagues when they review my conference papers and journal articles, especially those who dont like my artilect/cosmist/terran/gigadeathwar politics, so the "proof of concept" phase is still not over, but there's nothing like getting a journal guest editorship invitation to help silence my critics.