Joe Faith | |
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Senior Lecturer in Computing
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I'm currently the technical director of Fundraising Skills Ltd, an online training company. I've been responsible for the technology strategy and have enjoyed helping it grow into one of the largest suppliers of fundraising training for schools and community groups.
I've also got 10 years experience as an IT consultant, responsible for analysis, development, technical architecture and project management on a variety of technologies and domains.
My main research interest is in applying artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques to human-computer interfaces.
At the moment this includes researching a novel technique for analysing and exploring high-dimensional data sets called Targeted Projection Pursuit.
Previous to this, my PhD research was in Philosophy.
Faith,J. (2009) "Interactive Data Exploration with Targeted Projection Pursuit", Leonardo Electronic Almanac, MIT Press, 16.6-7
M. Angelova, C.Myers, and J. Faith, Classification of Genes Based on Gene Expression Analysis,Physics of Atomic Nuclei, 2008, Vol. 71, No. 5, pp. 780 787.
J. Faith, Targeted Projection Pursuit for Interactive Exploration of High-Dimensional Data Sets, Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Information Visualisation, Zurich, 2007 Download
J. Faith, R.Mintram, M.Angelova (2006), "Targeted Projection Pursuit for Visualising Gene Expression Data Classifications", BioInformatics, 22(21):2667, 2006. Download
J. Faith and M. Brockway (2006), Targeted Projection Pursuit Tool for Gene Expression Visualisation. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics, 3(2):43, 2006.Download
Bird J., Faith, J.E., Webster, A., Tabula Rasa: A Case Study in Evolutionary Curation, EvoMUSART2003 (1st European Workshop on Evolutionary Music and Art), Essex, UK.
J. Faith, Biotica and the Emergence of Complexity. In
Brown R (ed) Biotica: Art, Emergence and Artificial Life, Royal College
of Art, 2001.
J. Faith, Why gliders don't exist: anti-reductionism and
emergence. In C. Adami, R. Belew, H. Kitano, and C. Taylor (eds) Proceedings of the 6th International
Conference on Artificial Life, Los Angeles, 1998, MIT Press.
J. Faith, In defense of functional analysis. In
Husbands,P. and Harvey,I. (eds) Proceedings of the 4th European Conference
on Artificial Life, Brighton, 1997, MIT Press.
J. Faith, Representations in adaptive behaviour. In Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of
Behaviour Quarterly, Winter 1996.
J. Faith, Why intentionality cannot be eliminated. In
Smithers T. and Moreno, A. (eds) Proceedings of the 1996 Conference on the
Origins of Cognition, San Sebastien, Spain.
I've long been interested in the creative and generative power of artificial life technologies, particularly in its application to art.
I got into this through being the public events organiser for the Fourth European Conference on Artificial Life in Brighton in 1997. This involved curating and organising Like Life, an exhibition of art/science collaborations, sponsored by the Arts Council of Britain.
As a result of this I was one of the jurists for the Vida artificial life arts prize organised by Telefonica in Madrid.
In 2005 I gave a workshop at the International Centre for Art and New Technologies in Prague on Artificial Life technology and the arts. Some of the presentation materials are here (some of the video links will not work due to copyright reasons):