Frédéric Kaplan, Ph.D – Eng. Born the 23/06/1974 in Paris French nationality, married, 1 child. Home address: 4, rue de Navarre 75005 Paris France Tel (home) : (33) 1 43 37 15 11 Tel (work) : (33) 1 44 08 05 02 Tel (mobile) : (33) 6 85 94 96 62 E-mail :
[email protected] Web :http://www.csl.sony.fr/~kaplan
Professional Experience SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORY (PARIS, FR) 1997 – present Permanent Researcher – head of the developmental robotics group Research areas: Curiosity-driven learning, new techniques for human-robot interactions, self-developing systems. SONY DIGITAL CREATURES LABORATORY (TOKYO, JP) Winter 2000 / Autumn 2001 Visiting scientist Collaborative research with Japanese teams for the development of the AIBO robot and the QRIO humanoid EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY (HEIDELBERG, GE) Summer 1996 THOMSON MICROSONICS (SOPHIA-ANTIPOLIS, FR) Summer 1995 Education
Graduate School LABORATOIRE D’INFORMATIQUE DE PARIS VI UNIVERSITY PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE 1997 – 2000 Ph.D under the supervision of Luc Steels and Alexis Drogoul “Mention très honorable avec felicitations du jury” Thesis topic : Emergence of a lexicon in a population of autonomous agents
Undergraduate LABORATOIRE D’INFORMATIQUE DE PARIS VI UNIVERSITY PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE 1996 – 1997 DEA (Artificial Intelligence Pattern Recognition and Applications) ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DES TELECOMMUNICATIONS (ENST PARIS) 1994 – 1997 Engineering Degree LYCEE SAINT-LOUIS, PARIS “Classes préparatoires” 1992-1994 LYCEE LOUIS-LE-GRAND, PARIS “Baccalauréat mention Très bien” Languages
French : mother tongue English : Very good written and oral level, daily practice. Italian : Good oral and reading level. Japanese!: notions
Main Research Projects 2003- PRESENT THE CURIOSITY-DRIVE HYPOTHESIS: Investigation of the neurophysiological relevance of a computational model of curiosity. Collaboration with neuroscientists 2002-PRESENT SELF-DEVELOPING SYSTEMS: Generic engines for open-ended development Application to AIBO robots and QRIO humanoid http://www.fkaplan.com/en/multipagelist.xml?pg=2 2000-2002 THE TALKING AIBO PROJECT Prototype-system for teaching words to an autonomous robot. Demonstration on AIBO, Sony’s four-legged robot. http://www.csl.sony.fr/Research/Experiments/AIBOFirstWords/ 1998-2000 THE TALKING HEADS EXPERIMENT International experiment in which a large population of robots has developped a shared lexicon on its own for naming objects. http://talking-heads.csl.sony.fr 2001-2002 CAN A DOG TELL THE DIFFERENCE ? Ethological experiments using autonomous robots Collaboration with ethologists (Eotvos University,Budapest) http://www.csl.sony.fr/Research/Experiments/DogAIBO/
1997-2001 SEMIOTIC DYNAMICS Study of language as a complex adaptive system. Mathematical and agentbased models. http://www.fkaplan.com/en/multipagelist.xml?pg=2 1997-1998 SYNTHETIC MOLECULAR BIOLOGY Models of the biological cell as an “endosemantic” system Public installations / Interactive demonstrations 2003 « INTERACTIVE
DESIGN » EXHIBITION, NATIONAL DES ARTS MODERNES, PARIS, FR.
CENTRE P OMPIDOU , MUSÉE
2002 « LE RÊVE DE VAUCANSON » MUSEE DES ARTS ET METIERS, PARIS, FR. 2002 « ROBOTS», LE CUBE, ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX, PARIS, FR. 2000 « EVOLUTION PARIS, FR.
DE LA COMMUNICATION
», PALAIS
DE LA DÉCOUVERTE,
2000 « NO1SE » EXHIBITION, KETTLE’S YARD, CAMBRIDGE, UK 1999 « LABORATORIUM » EXHIBITION, ANVERS, BELGIQUE Press
Research projects featured in the media including New Scientist, Discover, The Sunday Times, Die Welt, Le Monde, Les Echos, La Recherche, L'Express, Ca m'interesse, M6, France Inter, Radio France Internationale, France Info, France Culture, Europe 1, Radio Suisse Romande.
Teaching Experience Participation in University Courses Université Technologique de Compiègne - UV Culture et Technique (Resp: Bruno Jacomy), 2003 Université Cergy-Pointoise - UV Robotics (Resp: Philippe Gaussier), 2003 DESS Sciences- Po Paris / Gestion de l'information dans l'entreprise 19982000 Others College de la Cité des Sciences, 2002
Advising graduate students Ph.D Candidates Claire d’Este, constructive predictors (in collaboration with Claude Sammut / University New South Wales, Sydney, Australia) Eniko Kubinyie, animal-robot interactions (in collaboration with Adam Miklosi / Eotvos University, Budapest, Hungary) Diploma and Masters level projects Andrew Whyte, curiosity-driven active vision device, 2003 Marc Chaland, endosemantic systems, 1998 Conferences local organization 2002.10 Le Rêve de Vaucanson : Vers le premier robot parlant. Musée des arts et metiers, Paris. 2001.10 Simulation and synthesis of language evolution. Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris. 2000.04 Evolution of Language, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommmunications, Paris. Reviewer
Alife Journal, Adaptive Behavior, Cognitive Systems Research, Computational Intelligence Journal, Connection Science, Developmental Embodied Cognition Workshop, Evolution of Communication Journal , Evolution of Language Conference IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation
Program committee Epigenetics Robotics Workshop 2003, 2004 Robocup 2004 Biologically-Inspired Machine Learning Workshop 1999 Technical Committee IEEE Neural Network Society – Autonomous Mental Development Technical Committee / Attention and Joint Attention Task Force
Main invited seminars 2003 : MIT media lab (Boston, USA), MIT CBCL (Boston, USA), University of Sussex (Brighton, UK), Embodied A.I. workshop (Dagstuhl, Ge), IDSIA (Lugano, Ch) 2002: Hopital de la Salpétrière (Paris, Fr.), Académie des Technologies (Paris, Fr), Ecole Supérieure d’Art (Aix-en-Provence, Fr.), ENSEA (CergyPontoise, Fr), Ecole Polytechnique (Palaiseaux, Fr), Kunsthochschule für Medien (Cologne, Ge.) 2001 : University of Budapest (Budapest, Hu), Musée des Beaux-Arts (Lyon, Fr), Saline Royale d’Arc et Senans (Arc et Senans, Fr) 2000 : Millenario Symposium (Madrid, Es), ENST (Paris, Fr), Simulation of adaptive behavior demonstration session (Paris, Fr) 1999 : ETL (Tsukuba, Jp), University of Tokyo (Tokyo, Jp), Université de Caen (Caen, Fr) Scientific collaborations 2003-present ECAgent – European project involving Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, National Research Council, Roma, Italy (ISTCCNR) and Autonomous Systems Laboratory, The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switzerland. (EPFL-ASL). 2001-present : External expert for French Academy of Technology. Man Machine Interaction group. Responsible for Entertainment robotics and Education parts. http://www.academie-technologies.fr/ 2000-present : Participation to CNRS action OHLL (Origin of Man, Language and Languages). CESS team (Coevolution of Syntax and Semantics). http://www.cnrs.fr/SHS/Pdepart/polsc/ohll.htm 2000-present : Collaboration with Adam Miklosi’s group of the Eotvos University in Budapest on dog ethology. Artistic collaborations 2002 : Collaboration with Alok Nandi on a mixed-reality project at the Arc et Senan saline (Franche-Comté) to be installed in 2005. 2002 : Collaboration on « Metamorphoses » , theater project by Valerie Cordy to be played in Brussel in 2003. 1999: Collaboration on « Turing Machine » a play-shop by Jean-François Peyret played at Bobigny Theater (Paris). http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/jbb/jf-peyret.html
Awards Technology Award - Sony Research Forum 1999 (Best Technological Paper for whole Sony Research in 1999) Paper Award - Sony Research Forum 2000 Best Session Presentation Award - Sony Research Forum 2000 Patents Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. Action selection method for active learning - Filed July, 2004 - European Patent Application Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. An architecture for self-developing robots - Filed June 6, 2003 - European, Japan and US Application Kaplan, F. Adaptive Artificial Vision Method and System - Filed October 8, 2002 - European Patent Application Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer P-Y. Method for Training autonomous robots - Filed April 30, 2001 - European, Japan and US Patent Application Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. Autonomous system with heterogeneous bodies - Filed December 12, 2000 - European Patent Application Kaplan, F. Steels, L. and McIntyre, A. Robotic Teleportation Method and System - Filed October 26, 1999 - European and US Patent Application Publications
1. BOOKS Kaplan, F. (in preparation), Les machines apprivoisées (taming machines) Kaplan, F. (2001), La naissance d’une langue chez les robots, Hermès Science Publications (the birth of a language among the robots, in french only for the moment) http://www.fkaplan.com 2. JOURNALS Kaplan, F. and Hafner, V. Joint attention: the missing link for robots to connect language with the world, submitted to Artificial Intelligence Journal, special issue on connecting language with the world
Kaplan, F. and Hafner, V. The challenges of joint attention, submitted to Interaction studies, special issue on epigenetic robotics Kubinyi, E. , Miklosi, A. Kaplan, F. Gacsi, M. Topal, J. Csnayi, V. (2004) Social behaviour of dogs encountering AIBO, an animal-like robot in a neutral and in a feeding situation Behavioural Processes, Vol 65/3 pp 231239. Kaplan, F., Oudeyer, P-Y., Kubinyi, E. and Miklosa, A. (2002) Robotic clicker training, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 38(3-4):197-206. Steels, L. and Kaplan, F. (2002) AIBO's first words, the social learning of language and meaning, Evolution of Communication 4 (1). Kaplan, F. (1999) Dynamiques de l'auto-organisation lexicale: simulations multi-agents et "Tetes parlantes", In Cognito, 15, 3--23. 3. INVITED BOOK CHAPTERS Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2004) Maximizing learing progress : an internal reward system for development, in Iida, F. Pfeifer, R. Steels, L. and Kuniyoshi, Y. (eds) Embodied Artificial Intelligence, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, vol 3139, Springer-Verlag. Kaplan, F. (2002) La construction sociale du sens, in Guillot, A and Daucé, E. Approche dynamique de la cognition artificielle, Hermès Science Publications, Paris. Steels, L. and Kaplan, F. (2002) Bootstrapping grounded word semantics. In Briscoe,T. Linguistic evolution through language acquisition: formal and computational models, Cambdrige University Press. Steels, L. and Kaplan, F. and McIntyre, A. and Van Looveren, J. (2002) Crucial factors in the origins of word-meaning In Wray, A., editor, The Transition to Language, Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK. Kaplan, F. and Steels, L. (2002) How can robots agree on what to say ? In : Ron. J.M.S. (ed.) La cencia y la tecnologia ante el Tercer Milenio (II) p. 3540. Madrid : Espana Nuovo Milenio Kubinyie, E, Miklosi, A, Kaplan, F. and Vilmos, C. (2002) Hogyan kapcsolodhat ossze a kutyakutatas es a tarsrobot-fejlesztes ? In : Kampis, G. and Laszlo, R. (ed.) Evolucio es megismeres, AZ Evolucios gondolat, typotex. 4. Ph.D THESIS Kaplan, F. (2000) L'émergence d'un lexique dans une population d'agents autonomes - The emergence of a lexicon in a population of autonomous agents, Ph.D thesis, Paris VI University.
5. POPULAR PRESS / ESSAYS Kaplan, F. La peur du robot, Minotaure n°3, p.142-146, Octobre 2003 Kaplan, F. Nous sommes des robots plus "quelque chose", catalogue de l'exposition "Hommes et Robots", Maison de la Culture Japonaise, Paris, 2003. Kaplan, F., Fujita, M. and Doi, T. Dans les entrailles du chien AIBO, La recherche 350, Special Issue : Les nouveaux robots, February 2002. Kaplan, F. Un robot peut-il être notre ami ?. In Orlarey, Y., editor, L'Art, la pensée, les émotions, pages 99-106, 2001. Grame. Steels, L. and Kaplan, F. (2000) Origine et évolution du langage : expériences robotiques. Revue du Palais de la Découverte, 278:63-67. 6. PEER-REVIEWED PROCEEDINGS Kaplan,, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. Curiosity-driven learning, submitted to NIPS 2004. Kaplan, F. and Hafner, V. The challenges of joint attention, Proceedings of the 4th Epigenetic Robotics workshop 2004. Hafner, V. and Kaplan, F. Learning to interpret pointing gestures: experiments with four-legged autonomous robots, NeuroBotics workshop, KI conference, 2004. Kaplan, F., Who is afraid of the humanoid? Investigating cultural differences the acceptance of robots, Proceedings of Humanoid 2003, 2003. Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. Motivational principles for visual know-how development. Proceedings of the 3rd Epigenetic Robotics workshop, 2003. Kaplan, F., Bootstrapping awareness, In Dautenhan, K. and Nehaniv, C., editor, Proceedings of Second International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, 2003. Kubinyi, E., Miklosi, A., Kaplan, F., Gacsi, M., Topal, J. and Csanyi,V. Can a dog tell the difference ? Dogs encounter AIBO, an animal-like robot in two social situations, Proceedings of SAB 02 : From animals to animats, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA., 2002. Kaplan, F. Language as it could be : How robots can create new linguistic phenomena, Proceedings of the Evolution of Language Conference, Harvard, 2002
Kaplan, F. Artificial Attachment : Will a robot ever pass Ainsworth s Strange Situation Test ?. In Hashimoto, S., editor, Proceedings of Humanoids 2001 : IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pages 125-132, 2001. Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. and Kubinyi, E. and Miklosi, A. (2001) Taming robots with clicker training : a solution for teaching complex behaviors. In Quoy, M. and Gaussier, P. and Wyatt, J. L., editor, Proceedings of the 9th European workshop on learning robots, LNAI, Springer. Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. and Kubinyi, E. and Miklosi, A. Clicker training sessions with an animal-like robot. Advances in Ethology (Supplements to Ethology), 36, 2001. Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. A method for teaching actions to an autonomous robot. Proceedings of Sony Research Forum 2001, 2001. Kaplan, F. Talking AIBO : First experimentation of verbal interactions with an autonomous four-legged robot. In Nijholt, A. and Heylen, D. and Jokinen, K., editor, Learning to Behave: Interacting agents CELE-TWENTE Workshop on Language Technology, pages 57-63, October 2000. Kaplan, F. and Steels, L. Comment les robots construisent leur monde : Experiences sur la convergence des catégories sensorielles. In Dessalles, J-L., editor, Journée ARC Evolution et Cognition, pages 13-18, December 2000. ENST Paris, ENST 2000-S-004. Kaplan, F. Free creatures: The role of uselessness in the design of artificial pets. In Christaller, T. and Indiveri, G. and Poigne, A., editor, Proceedings of the 1st Edutainment Robotics Workshop, September 2000. GMD-AiS Kaplan, F. and Oudeyer, P-Y. From Talking AIBO to Talking Head: Morphing sensory spaces between two robotic bodies. Proceedings of Sony Research Forum 2000, 2000. Steels, L. and Kaplan, F. and McIntyre, A. and van Looveren, J. Crucial factors in the origins of word-meaning. In Dessalles, J-L. and Ghadakpour, L., editor, Proceedings of The 3rd Evolution of Language Conference, pages 214-217, Paris, 2000. ENST 2000 S 002. Kaplan, F. Semiotic schemata: Selection units for linguistic cultural evolution. In Bedau, M and McCaskill, J. and Packard, N. and Rasmussen, S., editor, Proceedings of Artificial Life VII, pages 372-381, Cambridge, MA, 2000. The MIT Press. Steels, L. and Kaplan, F. Situated grounded word semantics. In Dean, T., editor, Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence IJCAI'99, pages 862-867, San Francisco, CA., 1999. Morgan Kaufmann Publishers.
Kaplan, F. La dérive naturelle du lexique. In Vivorsci, B., editor, Actes du IIIe Colloque des Jeunes Chercheurs en Sciences Cognitives: Interdisciplinarité et cognition. Les multiples approches, pages 122-128, Soulac, 1999. Kaplan, F. La simulation pour alimenter et organiser le débat sur l'origine du langage humain. Conflits des interprétations et interprétation des conflits. Journées de Rochebrune 1999: Rencontres interdisciplinaires s, pages 155168, Janvier 1999. ENST 99 S 001. McIntyre, A. and Steels, L. and Kaplan, F. Net-mobile embodied agents. Proceedings of Sony Research Forum 1999, Tokyo, 1999. Steels, L. and Kaplan, F. Collective learning and semiotic dynamics. In Floreano, D. and Nicoud, J-D and Mondada, F., editor, Advances in Artificial Life (ECAL 99), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1674, pages 679688, Berlin, 1999. Springer-Verlag. Steels, L. and Kaplan, F. Amorçage d'une sémantique lexicale dans une population d'agents autonomes, ancrés et situés. In Amsili, P., editor, Traitement automatique du langage naturel 1999, pages 393-398, Cargèse, Corse, 1999. Kaplan, F. and Steels, L. and McIntyre, A. An architecture for evolving robust shared communication systems in noisy environments. Proceedings of Sony Research Forum 1998, Tokyo, 1998. Kaplan, F. Rôle de la simulation multi-agent pour comprendre l'origine et l'évolution du langage. In Barthès, J-P. and Chevrier, V. and Brassac, C., editor, Systèmes multi-agents: de l'interaction à la socialité (JFIADSMA98), pages 51-64, Paris, 1998. Hermès. Kaplan, F. A New Approach to Class Formation in Multi-Agent Simulations of Language Evolution. In Demazeau, Y., editor, Proceedings of the third international conference on multi-agent systems (ICMAS 98), pages 158-165, Los Alamitos, CA, 1998. IEEE Computer Society. Kaplan, F. and McIntyre, A. and Numaoka, C. and Tajan, S. Growing virtual communities in 3D meeting spaces.In Heudin, J-C., editor, Proceedings of Virtual Worlds 98, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 1434, pages 286297, Berlin, 1998. Springer-Verlag. Steels, L. and Kaplan, F. Spontaneous Lexicon Change. Proceedings of COLING-ACL 1998, pages 1243-1249, Montreal, August 1998. ACL. Steels, L. and Kaplan, F. Stochasticity as a Source of Innovation in Language Games. In Adami, C. and Belew, R. and Kitano, H. and Taylor, C., editor, Proceedings of Artificial Life VI, pages 368-376, Cambridge, MA, June 1998. The MIT Press.
Bersagol, V. , Dessalles, J-L., Kaplan, F., Marze, J-C., Picault, S. , XMOISE: A logical spreadsheet to elicit didactic knowledge In A. Diaz de Ilarraz & I. Fernandez de C. (ed.), Proceedings of CALISCE'96. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1108, 1996, Springer, 430-432.
