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Wirt Atmar
President,
Research Associate, My research interests center around the evolution of life, more specifically its complexity and diversity, and most especially those evolutionary factors that promote the evolution of intelligence. My graduate education was divided into thirds. I began three doctoral programs simultaneously: electrical engineering (computers, control systems, artificial intelligence), evolutionary biology (animal behavior, community ecology) and astronomy (planetary formation, evolution of galaxies). Following the completion of the first two doctorates in 1976, Hewlett-Packard invited us to become a third-party engineering affiliate, a relationship which continues to this day, more than 30 years later. AICS Research, Inc. was founded in 1976, and I have been its president since its inception. My research has been funded primarily from the profits earned from our commercial products, although grants and research contracts have been received from the National Science Foundation, the US Army, NASA and other public and private agencies over the years, but it has not been dependent on them. |
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