Peter J. Bentley
Born	May 16, 1972 (1972-05-16) (age 37) Colchester,UK
Nationality	British
Fields	Computer Science
Institutions	University College London KAIST
Doctoral students	Jungwon Kim Rob Shipman Sanjeev Kumar Supiya Ujjin David Basanta Tim Gordon Siavash Haroun Mahdavi Ramona Behravan Udi Schlessinger
Known for	Digital Biology
Notable awards	Edge of Computation Prize Nominee (2005)

Dr Peter John Bentley (born May 16, 1972) is a British author and computer scientist based at University College London.

Peter J. Bentley is an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at UCL and a Collaborating Professor at KAIST. He is also a popular science author and consultant. He is a contributing editor for WIRED UK and is the monthly host of the Royal Institution's cafe scientifique.

Born in Colchester, England, he achieved a B.Sc. in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Essex (supervised by Edward Tsang) and a Ph.D. in Evolutionary Design (supervised by Jonathan Wakefield) at the age of 24. His doctorate thesis was entitled Generic Evolutionary Design of Solid Objects using a Genetic Algorithm.

Since 1997 he has performed research into evolutionary computation, artificial life, swarm intelligence, artificial immune systems, artificial neural networks and other types of biologically inspired computing, which he terms Digital Biology. He is head of the Digital Biology Interest Group at the Department of Computer Science, University College London. He participates in science festivals and public events, such as the debate on Complexity and Evolution held at the Natural History Museum in July 2007 with Richard Dawkins, Steve Jones (biologist), Lewis Wolpert. His research has been described in several articles of New Scientist. His recent research focuses on morphological computation and novel architectures designed for natural computation based on evolution, developmental and self-assembling systems.

Contents 1 Popular books 2 Academic books 3 Academic proceedings 4 See also 5 References 6 External links

[edit] Popular books

• The Undercover Scientist: Investigating the Mishaps of Everyday Life, ISBN 978-1-847-94523-5
• Why Sh*t Happens: The Science of a Really Bad Day, ISBN 978-1594869563 (US version of The Undercover Scientist)
• The Book of Numbers: The Secret of Numbers and How They Changed the World, ISBN 1554073618
• Digital Biology. How nature is transforming our technology and our lives, ISBN 0743204476

[edit] Academic books

• Evolutionary Design by Computers, ISBN 1-55860-605-X
• Creative Evolutionary Systems, ISBN 1-55860-673-4
• On Growth, Form and Computers, ISBN 0-12-428765-4
• The PhD Application Handbook, ISBN 0335219527

[edit] Academic proceedings

• Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference (ICARIS 2008), ISBN 9783540850717
• Advances in Artificial Life. Proceedings of the Eighth European Conference (ECAL 2005), ISBN 3-540-28848-1
• Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference (ICARIS 2005), ISBN 3-540-28175-4
• Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference (ICARIS 2004), ISBN 3-540-23097-1
• Evolvability, Genetics & Development in Natural and Constructed Systems: Abstracts of the EPSRC Evolvability Network Symposium, August 2003
• Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the Second International Conference (ICARIS 2003), ISBN 3-540-40766-9
• Artificial Immune Systems. Proceedings of the First International Conference (ICARIS), ISBN 1-902671-32-5
• Proceedings of the AISB99 Symposium on Creative Evolutionary Systems, ISBN 1 902956 03 6
• AID 1998 1st Workshop Notes on Evolutionary Design, July 1998

[edit] See also

• Artificial life
• Evolutionary Computation
• Norman Packard
• Thomas S. Ray
• David E. Goldberg
• John Koza

[edit] References

• "lifeboat foundation Advisory Board biography". http://www.lifeboat.com/ex/bios.peter.j.bentley. Retrieved September 13, 2008. 
• "New Theories of Evolution". http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/07/17/scilead117.xml. Retrieved September 12, 2008. 
• "Public Debate on Complexity and Evolution". http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/evodebate.html. Retrieved September 12, 2008. 
• "Digital Biology Interest Group at UCL". http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/igdigitalbiology/index.html. Retrieved September 12, 2008. 
• "Insects make a buzz on the music scene. Article in New Scientist, 6 May 2002". http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99992242. Retrieved September 12, 2008. 
• "Robot spy can survive battlefield damage, Article in New Scientist, 20 August 2003". http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99994075. Retrieved September 12, 2008. 
• "New Scientist Feature Software Seeds, March 6, 2004". http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/seedsarticle.html. Retrieved September 12, 2008. 
• "Fast cars could be tuned by evolution. Article in New Scientist, June 17, 2004, March 6, 2004". http://www.newscientist.com/news/print.jsp?id=ns99996019. Retrieved September 12, 2008. 

[edit] External links

• Peter Bentley's home page at UCL
• Peter Bentley's book page
• Peter Bentley's book blog
• BBC Radio 4 documentary Natural Technology broadcast May 2001 featuring Peter Bentley
• Interview with Peter Bentley
• Random House author biography of Peter Bentley

Persondata
NAME	Bentley, Peter John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Computer Science
DATE OF BIRTH	May 16, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Colchester
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH