# Jordan Pollack

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'''Jordan B. Pollack''' is a professor of computer science at [Brandeis University](/source/Brandeis_University), and director of the Dynamical and Evolutionary Machine Organization lab. Pollack's work with [David Waltz](/source/David_Waltz) was highly acclaimed by [Marvin Minsky](/source/Marvin_Minsky).<!-- This can be found in the transcript of Minsky's Society of Minds course at MIT, available on OpenCourseware. --> His contributions to theoretical computer science include the demonstration of a neural network implementation of a Turing machine, the Neuring machine, in 1987.<ref>Pollack, J.B., 1987. ''On connectionist models of natural language processing''. Ph.D Dissertation in Computer Science, University of Illinois.</ref> Pollack and [Hod Lipson](/source/Hod_Lipson) pioneered the automated design and manufacturing of robots.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Lipson|first1=Hod|last2=Pollack|first2=Jordan B.|title=Automatic design and manufacture of robotic lifeforms |url=https://www.nature.com/doifinder/10.1038/35023115|journal=Nature|volume=406|issue=6799|pages=974–978|doi=10.1038/35023115|pmid=10984047|year=2000|bibcode=2000Natur.406..974L |s2cid=4317402|url-access=subscription}}</ref> In January 2001 he was named one of MIT Technology Review's "TR 10".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www2.technologyreview.com/news/401769/robot-design/|title=10 Breakthrough Technologies: Robot Design|last=Talbot|first=David|date=February 1, 2003|work=MIT Technology Review|access-date=March 11, 2017|archive-date=March 8, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160308222659/http://www2.technologyreview.com/news/401769/robot-design/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

== Biography ==
Pollack earned a Bachelor's from SUNY Binghamton, and a PhD in computer science from the University of Illinois in 1987. He taught computer science at Ohio State University (1988-1994) before moving to Brandeis, where he was chair of the computer science department from 2010 through 2019.

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