- Ben Goertzel
- Novamente, Singularity Institute
- Novamente website
- OpenCog website
- blog
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Ben is founder, CSO and CEO of Novamente, a software company aimed at creating applications in the area of natural language question-answering; and director of research at the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, overseeing the Open Cognition Project. He has over 70 publications, concentrating on cognitive science and AI, including Chaotic Logic, Creating Internet Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence (edited with Cassio Pennachin), and The Hidden Pattern. He also oversees Biomind, an AI and bioinformatics firm that licenses software for bioinformatics data analysis to the NIH's National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, and CDC. Ben has a Ph.D. in mathematics from Temple University, and has held several university positions in mathematics, computer science, and psychology, in the US, New Zealand, and Australia.