Episode 20: Joscha Bach, German Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence researcher

Joscha Bach is a German Cognitive Science & Artificial Intelligence researcher. Joscha has an MA in computer science from Humboldt-Universität Berlin and a PhD in cognitive science from Osnabrück University. Bach has taught computer science, AI, and cognitive science at the Humboldt University of Berlin and the Institute for Cognitive Science at Osnabrück. He worked as a visiting researcher at the MIT Media Lab and the Harvard Program for Evolutionary Dynamics. Joscha then joined AI Foundation, working as VP of Research. He is currently a Principal AI Engineer at Intel Labs Cognitive Computing group. Bach built MicroPsi, a cognitive architecture extending representations of the Psi-theory with taxonomies, inheritance and linguistic labelling; MicroPsi's spreading activation networks allow for neural learning, planning and associative retrieval. He has also worked extensively on novel data compression algorithms using concurrent entropy models.