- Ph.D., Case Western Reserve University, 1989

Randall Beer
Provost Professor, Cognitive Science
Provost Professor, School of Informatics and Computing
Provost Professor, Cognitive Science
Provost Professor, School of Informatics and Computing
My primary research interest is in understanding how coordinated behavior arises from the dynamical interaction of an animal's nervous system, its body and its environment. Toward this end, I work on the evolution and analysis of dynamical "nervous systems" for model agents, neuromechanical modeling of animals, biologically-inspired robotics, and dynamical systems approaches to behavior and cognition. More generally, I am interested in computational and theoretical biology, including models of metabolism, gene regulation and development. I also have a longstanding interest in the design and implementation of dynamic programming languages and their programming environments.
The brain has a body: adaptive behavior emerges from interactions of nervous system, body and environment (1997)
Hillel J Chiel and Randall D Beer
Trends in neurosciences, 20 (12), 553-557
A dynamical systems perspective on agent-environment interaction (1995)
Randall D Beer
Artificial intelligence, 72 (2-Jan), 173-215
Dynamical approaches to cognitive science (2000)
Randall D Beer
Elsevier Current Trends. 4 (3), 91-99
Intelligence as adaptive behavior: An experiment in computational neuroethology (1990)
Randall D. Beer
Academic Press.
Evolving dynamical neural networks for adaptive behavior (1992)
Randall D Beer and John C Gallagher
Adaptive behavior, 1 (1), 91-122
The dynamics of active categorical perception in an evolved model agent (2003)
Randall D Beer
Adaptive Behavior, 11 (4), 209-243
On the dynamics of small continuous-time recurrent neural networks (1995)
Randall D Beer
Adaptive Behavior, 3 (4), 469-509
Toward the evolution of dynamical neural networks for minimally cognitive behavior (1996)
Randall D Beer
Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, 4 421-429
Biologically Inspired (1997)
Randall D Beer, Roger D Quinn, Hillel J Chiel and Roy E Ritzmann
Communications of the ACM, 40 (3), 31
Using autonomous robotics to teach science and engineering (1999)
Randall D Beer, Hillel J Chiel and Richard F Drushel
Communications of the ACM, 42 (6), 85-92
Biologically based distributed control and local reflexes improve rough terrain locomotion in a hexapod robot (1996)
Kenneth S Espenschied, Roger D Quinn, Randall D Beer and Hillel J Chiel
Robotics and autonomous systems, 18 (2-Jan), 59-64
Peristaltically self-propelled endoscopic device (2004)
Spatial learning for navigation in dynamic environments (1996)
Brian Yamauchi and Randall Beer
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B (Cybernetics), 26 (3), 496-505
Nonnegative decomposition of multivariate information (2010)
Paul L Williams and Randall D Beer
arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.2515,
Toward an evolvable model of development for autonomous agent synthesis (1994)
Frank Dellaert and Randall D Beer
Artificial Life IV, Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on the Synthesis and Simulation of Living Systems, 246-257
Author | Dissertation Title | Committee |
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Brady, Michael | A Field-Based Artificial Neural Network w/ Cerebella Model for Complex Motor Sequence Learning (May 2012) | Beer, R. (Chair), Kewley-Port, D., Port, R., Bingham, G. |
Frey, Seth | Complex Collective Dynamics in Human Higher-Level Reasoning. A Study Over Multiple Methods (August 2013) | Goldstone, R. (Chair), Todd, P., Beer, R., Busemeyer, J. |
Jones, D | Primitive Agency | Schmitt, F., (Chair)., O'Connor, T, Ludwig, K., Beer. R., |
Kadihasanoglu, Didem | An Evolutionary Robotics Approach to Visually-Guided Braking: Data and Theory (October 2012) | Beer, R. (Chair), Bingham, G., Busey, T., Yu, C. |
Sheya, Adam | Coordinating Location and Object Properties in Goal-Directed Action: A Case of Self-Generated Developmental Change (November 2009) | Smith, L. (Co-Chair), Beer, R. (Co-Chair), Sporns, O., Yu, C. |
Williams, Paul | Information Dynamics: Its Theory and Application to Embodied Cognitive Systems (May 2011) | Beer, R (Chair)., Beggs, J., Olaf, S., Yaeger, L. |
Zednik, Carlos | Mechanistic Explanation and Dynamical Cognitive Science (August 2011) | Allen, C (Chair)., Beer, R., Weinberg, J., Chemero, A. |