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 DEMO Lab

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 CI Lab

 BINDS Lab

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I am a PhD student at Brandeis University studying with Prof. Jordan Pollack. My research is focused on using coevolution to answer scientific questions. The questions I tackle are generally in the realm of artificial life, theoretical and mathematical biology. Examples are the evolution of communication, autoconstructive evolution (programs that create their own child programs), and the evolution of modularity.

Selected publications (of 23):

Harrington, K. I., A. P. Ozisik, and J. Pollack, (2012) "The Effects of Finite Populations and Selection on the Emergence of Signaling". In Proceedings of Artificial Life XIII, pp. accepted.  

Harrington, K. I., L. Spector, J. B. Pollack, and U.M. O'Reilly, (2012) "Autoconstructive Evolution for Structural Problems". In ADA Workshop, Workshop Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012), pp. in press.  pdf

Ozisik, A. P., Harrington, K. I., (2012) "The Effect of Tags on the Evolution of Honest Signaling". In ECoMASS Workshop, Workshop Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012), pp. in press.  pdf

Harrington, K. I., M. Olsen, and H. Siegelmann, (2012) "Computational Neuroecology of Communicated Somatic Markers". In Proceedings of Artificial Life XIII, pp. accepted.  

Shang, Y., P. Haynes, N. Pírez, K. Harrington, F. Guo, J. Pollack, P. Hong, L. Griffith, and M. Rosbash, (2011) "Imaging analysis of clock neurons: light buffers the wake-promoting effect of dopamine". In Nature Neuroscience, Vol. 14, no. 7, pp. 889-895.  pdf

Spector, L., K. Harrington, and T. Helmuth, (2012) "Tag-based Modularity in Tree-based Genetic Programming". In Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO-2012), pp. in press.  

Heymann, M., K. I. Harrington, J. Pollack, and S. Fraden, (2010) "En route to signal inversion in chemical computing". In Proceedings of Artificial Life XII, pp. 166-167.  pdf