Lee Spector teaches and conducts research in artificial intelligence, artificial life, and areas at the intersections of computer science with cognitive science, physics, evolutionary biology, and the arts.
Institutional home pages: Amherst College, Hampshire College, UMass Amherst
Lab: The PUSH Lab
Publications: Personal Archive, Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, ORCID, dblp
Social: Mastodon, Bluesky, Linkedin, Youtube
Featured projects
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lexicase.ai, a brief guide to lexicase selection. Lexicase selection considers individual training cases in different random orders, and therefore with different priorities, for each selection event.
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Artificial Intelligence in the Liberal Arts, an initiative at Amherst College, exploring and facilitating multi-way interactions between work in artificial intelligence and work across the liberal arts.
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Push Language Discourse, the The PUSH Lab’s Discourse site, on which selected posts are publicly accessible.
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Interpush, an online Push interpreter.
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Parrondo’s Paradox simulator, for exploring puzzles in game theory about how combinations of losing strategies can win.