Scholar
Jordan Pollack
Google Scholar ID: xT8PQ0IAAAAJ
Professor and Chair of Computer Science, Brandeis University
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,322
H-index
22
i10-index
54
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Conducting scientific research at the DEMO laboratory at Brandeis University, including the famous GOLEM robot-building-robots project.
- Involved in the Beeweb.org project, which exploits the power of Peer-to-Peer and a secret formula discovered in co-evolution to turn peers into each other's teacher.
- Wrote a BIG proposal for a science philanthropist, though the philanthropist went to jail soon after they met, the ideas behind the endowed center are sound.
- Served as Chief Scientist at VC-funded Abuzz, designing a limited AI knowledge-sharing portal and authored 5 patents. Abuzz was acquired by the NYTimes.
- Invented Thinmail, a breakthrough invention in 1999, which was the first cloud storage, mobile file access, and software as a service product.
- Invented a nano-backgammon game called NANNON, licensed to NANNON Technology Corp., and available for free on Iphones and Ipads.
- Developed Thinphone®, a spinoff of Thinmail that reads text messages and wav/mp3 files out to telephones.
- First scientific advisor to VC-funded Affinnova, which uses blind-watchmaker technology in product packaging design.
Background
- A professor at Brandeis University working on solving the AI problem by understanding the open-ended evolution of complexity in nature.
Co-authors