Peter [Pierre Bierre]:  

Life About Pierre (written for lastest NSF grant proposal, May 2005) As an undergraduate, he studied theoretical physics at SUNY Stony Brook (BS 1972) while drawn to the softer science of perceptual psychology. After several years of career experimentation (entrepreneur, instrumentation engineer, musician, piano tuner), he retooled with a masters in Computer Science from Univ. of Colorado at Boulder (1980). Drawn to Artificial Intelligence and the mecca of Silicon Valley, he spent the early ‘80s working on a theoretical foundation for experiential, sensorimotor machine learning. This work culminated in a 1985 paper “The Professor’s Challenge” published in AI Magazine. Returning to academia for a third time, he did five years post-grad research at Stanford in the Neuropsychology Lab of Dr. Karl Pribram, supporting investigation of visual learning processes as research software programmer, and collaborating on psychiatrist David Spiegel’s pioneering work in hypnotic analgesia. He assisted with some teaching responsibilities. During this time, he lectured around Silicon Valley on his original AI topics of sensorimotor lear...Expand for more