Gerardo Beni

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Gerardo Beni (born Florence, Italy 21 February 1946) is a professor of electrical engineering at University of California, Riverside who, with Jing Wang, is known as the originator of the term swarm intelligence [1] [2] in the context of cellular robotics and the concept of electrowetting , [3] with Susan Hackwood. He also devised, with Xuan-Li Xie, the Xie–Beni index [4] for measuring the validity of fuzzy clustering.

Contents

He is the author of "From Swarm Intelligence to Swarm Robotics" in the book Swarm Robotics [5]

Beni is married to Susan Hackwood. They have two children.

Education

In 1970 Beni was admitted to the Laurea in physics at the University of Florence, Florence, Italy. [6]

In 1974, he received his PhD in theoretical physics at UCLA. [6]

Academic career

Beni has research interests in swarm intelligence, 3D animation, and financial engineering. [7]

Before moving to UC Riverside, he worked at UC Santa Barbara and AT&T Bell Laboratories. [6]

He helped found the Journal of Robotic Systems, and between 1982 and 2005 he was also its director. The journal won the Journal of the Year Award in 1984. [6]

In 1982, Beni was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 1999, he became a Fellow of the AAAS. [6]

Patents

Beni has been issued, either alone or in conjunction with other inventors, several patents from the USPTO: [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Swarm Intelligence in Cellular Robotic Systems". January 1993.
  2. ↑ Beni, G., Wang, J. Swarm Intelligence in Cellular Robotic Systems, Proceed. NATO Advanced Workshop on Robots and Biological Systems, Tuscany, Italy, June 26–30 (1989)
  3. ↑ Beni, G. and Hackwood, S., Electrowetting Displays, Applied Physics Letter, 38,4, pp.207–209, 1982
  4. ↑ Xie, X.L., and Beni,G. A Validity Measure for Fuzzy Clustering, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 13, pp. 841–847, (1991)
  5. ↑ ISBN   978-3-540-24296-3, DOI 10.1007/b105069, Springer.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "Electrical Engineering: Gerardo Beni". Archived from the original on 2015-01-05. Retrieved 2007-09-18.
  7. ↑ Gerardo Beni
  8. ↑ Patent Database Search Results: IN/Gerardo AND IN/Beni in US Patent Collection [ permanent dead link ]
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