Dr. Hod Lipson is the Director of the Parallel Distributed Processing Lab at Cornell University. He is also a professor in the Computer Science Department and an associate professor in the Applied Mathematics Program at Cornell. He received his Ph.D
from Stanford University in 1998, where he worked with Professor Donald E. Knuth on the design of TeX. Lipson’s research is focused on distributed computing systems that are used for scientific, engineering or mathematical computation, and their application to problems such as parallel and distributed algorithms, information retrieval and data mining, and robotic manipulation and exploration.
His research has been funded by NSF and DARPA and has been recognized by many awards, including three best paper prizes: At SIGMOD (1998), ICML (2001) and NIPS (2005).
If you gave kids peas that didn't look like peas and said they were a space shuttle, they're much more apt to eat them because it's now playtime.Hod Lipson
We've seen computers play chess and beat grand masters. We've seen computers drive a car across a desert. But interestingly, playing chess is easy, but having a conversation about nothing is really difficult for a computer.Hod Lipson
