We're greatly honoured and pleased to have Professor Pieter Adriaans (our newest council member) with us. One of the world's leading authorities on computational philosophy and the philosophy of information, professor Adriaans is a great asset to our IIMx advisory council and community.
Professor Adriaans has a mature and formidable, and probably unmatched, grasp on the metaphysics of information in general and its relationship to computational theory. His recent work in emergent information and time-asymmetric computation is some of the boldest and most interesting work in the field.
Pieter has produced some of the most respected seminal works in the field of the philosophy of information:
- P. W. Adriaans, A simple information theoretical proof of the Fueter-Polya conjecture, submitted, September 26, 2018.
- P. W. Adriaans, A General Theory of Information and Computation, eprint arXiv:1611.07829
📷, November, 2016. - P.W. Adriaans, "Information", The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Winter 2012 Edition), Edward N. Zalta (ed.), 2016.
- P.W. Adriaans, Facticity as the amount of self-descriptive information in a data set, arXiv:1203.2245 📷 [cs.IT], 2012.
- P.W. Adriaans, P.E. Van Emde Boas, Information, Computation and the Arrow of time, in COMPUTABILITY IN CONTEXT, Computation and Logic in the Real World, edited by S. Barry Cooper (University of Leeds, UK) & Andrea Sorbi (Universita degli Studi di Siena, Italy), 2011.
- P.W. Adriaans, Wico Mulder, MDL in the limit, in ICGI 2010, Grammatical Inference: Theoretical Results and Applications, Volume 6339 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 258-261, 2010.
- W. Mulder, P.W. Adriaans , Using grammar induction to model adaptive behaviour of networks of collaborative agents, ICGI 2010, Grammatical Inference: Theoretical Results and Applications, Volume 6339 of the series Lecture Notes in Computer Science pp 163-177, 2010.
- P.W. Adriaans , A critical analysis of Floridi's theory of semantic information, In Knowlegde, Technology and Policy, Hilmi Demir ed. : Luciano Floridi's Philosophy of Technology: Critical Reflections, 2010, Volume 23, Issue 1-2, pp. 41-56..
- P.W. Adriaans , Between Order and Chaos: The Quest for Meaningful Information, Theory of Computing Systems, Volume 45 , Issue 4 (July 2009), Special Issue: Computation and Logic in the Real World; Guest Editors: S. Barry Cooper, Elvira Mayordomo and Andrea Sorbi Pages 650-674, 2009
- Adriaans, P. Vitanyi, P., Approximation of the Two-Part MDL Code, Comput. Sci. Dept., Univ. of Amsterdam, Amsterdam; Information Theory, IEEE Transactions on, Volume: 55, Issue: 1, On page(s): 444-457. 2009
- P.W. Adriaans, J.F.A.K. van Benthem (eds.), Handbook of Philosophy of Information, Elseviers Science Publishers, 2008
- P.W. Adriaans, The philosophy of learning, the cooperative computational universe. Pdf, in Handbook of Philisophy of Information, P.W.Adriaans, J.F.A.K. van Benthem (eds.), Elseviers Science Publishers, 2008
- S. Katrenko and P. Adriaans. A Local Alignment Kernel in the Context of NLP. In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling), 2008.
Current Position
Professor, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence University of Amsterdam, 1998-
Education
Undergraduate Institution(s) Kandidaats Filosofie, University of Leiden, 1979
Graduate Institution(s) Doctoraal Filosofie, University of Leiden, 1983
University of Amsterdam, Computer Science PhD, 1992
Appointments
1998-, Professor, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence,
2006-2008 Director IvI, University of Amsterdam
2003-2008 Chairman, CWI (National research center for mathematics and computer science), Amsterdam
1989-2000 Managing Director/Founder Syllogic B.V.
1985-1989, General Manager of Compu’Disc, General Manager at Info’Products Informatica Diensten
1983-1985, Software Developer, Service Manager at Buro Microsoftware
