David Hart

Director of Open Source Projects, SIAI

David Hart oversees open source programs at SIAI, with responsibilities including community engagement and project-managing software development efforts. He holds a BA in Chemistry from Hope College, and an MS in Applied Science from the University of Sydney and leverages over ten years of applied software development, IT and business management experience.

At the Singularity Institute for Artificial Intelligence, he focuses on open source methodologies for software design, planning, engineering practices, testing, technical documentation and related information technologies. He has held technical and managerial roles in numerous publicly listed companies in Silicon Valley, and is today the principal consult at Atlantis Blue, an IT services company based in Sydney, Australia.

David Hart joins Dr. Ben Goertzel in developing the Singularity Institute's OpenCog project, software for the collaborative development of safe and beneficial Artificial General Intelligence. OpenCog, which they will release later in 2008, will provide research scientists and software developers with a common platform to build and share artificial intelligence programs.

The framework of OpenCog is scheduled to include a flexible and highly optimized in-memory database for knowledge representation, a plug-in architecture for cognitive algorithms and a cognitive process scheduler, a built-in LISP-like programming language, and other components to support artificial intelligence research and development. Programs written or adapted for OpenCog may be combined and used in concert with one another for experimentation or to achieve better results compared to their stand-alone counterparts.