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Paul L. Williams



Ph.D. Student
Cognitive Science Program
Indiana University, Bloomington



Email

plw [AT] indiana [DOT] edu

Office

Eigenmann 836

Address

Cognitive Science Program
1900 E. 10th St.
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47406-7512

About Me

I am a Ph.D. student in the cognitive science program at Indiana University, advised by Prof. Randy Beer.

Before coming to Indiana, I completed a B.S. in Computer Science at The University of Texas at Austin, where I was part of the inaugural class of Turing Scholars. There I worked with Prof. Risto Miikkulainen as part of his Neural Networks Research Group.

At other times, I have also been known to ride my bicycle to Alaska.

Publications

Williams, P.L. and Beer, R.D. (submitted). Decomposing multivariate information.
Williams, P.L. and Beer, R.D. (2011). Generalized measures of information transfer. arXiv preprint 1102.1507.
Williams, P.L. and Beer, R.D. (2010). Information dynamics of evolved agents. In S. Doncieux, B. Girard, A. Guillot, J. Hallam, J.-A. Meyer and J-B. Mouret (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 11: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (pp. 38-49). Springer. [Winner of a Best Paper Award]
Williams, P.L. and Beer, R.D. (2010). Nonnegative decomposition of multivariate information. arXiv preprint 1004.2515.
Beer, R.D. and Williams, P.L. (2009). Animals and animats: Why not both iguanas? (A commentary on "Animals versus animats: or Why not the real iguana?" by Barbara Webb). Adaptive Behavior 17:296-302.
Williams, P.L., Beer, R.D., and Gasser, M. (2008). Evolving referential communication in embodied dynamical agents. In S. Bullock, J. Noble, R. Watson and M.A. Bedau (Eds.), Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems (pp. 702-709). MIT Press.
Williams, P.L., Beer, R.D., and Gasser, M. (2008). An embodied dynamical approach to relational categorization. In B.C. Love, K. McRae and V.M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the 30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 223-228).
Williams, P.L. and Miikkulainen, R. (2006). Grounding language in descriptions of scenes. In R. Sun and N. Miyake (Eds.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2381-2386).