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  1. Designing materials that feel and redress error

    Article • August 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  2. Giving Simulated Cells a Voice: Evolving Prompt-to-Intervention Models for Cellular Control

    Article • July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Michael Levin, Josh Bongard

  3. Evolving Hierarchical Neural Cellular Automata

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  4. Evolving Form and Function: Dual-Objective Optimization in Neural Symbolic Regression Networks

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  5. A Meta-Evolutionary Algorithm for Co-evolving Genotypes and Genotype / Phenotype Maps

    Article • July 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  6. Universal Mechanical Polycomputation in Granular Matter

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  7. Morphology Choice Affects the Evolution of Affordance Detection in Robots

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  8. Selection for short-term empowerment accelerates the evolution of homeostatic neural cellular automata

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  9. Empowered neural cellular automata

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  10. Selecting continuous life-like cellular automata for halting unpredictability

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  11. Evolving programmable computational metamaterials

    Article • July 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  12. Kinematic self-replication in reconfigurable organisms

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Josh Bongard

  13. Combating catastrophic forgetting with developmental compression

    Article • July 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  14. Physical Scaffolding Accelerates the Evolution of Robot Behavior

    Article • Artificial Life, August 2017, The MIT Press

    Josh Bongard

  15. A history and outlook of the use of internet and web technology in artificial life research

    Article • Artificial Life, August 2016, The MIT Press

    Dr. Charles Ofria, Dr Tim Taylor, Simon Hickinbotham, Josh Bongard

  16. An Embodied Approach for Evolving Robust Visual Classifiers

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  17. Evolving Soft Robots in Tight Spaces

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  18. A Genetic Programming Approach to Cost-Sensitive Control in Resource Constrained Sensor Systems

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  19. Evolving Robot Morphology Facilitates the Evolution of Neural Modularity and Evolvability

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard, John Long

  20. Crowdseeding Robot Design

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  21. Exploiting the Relationship Between Structural Modularity and Sparsity for Faster Network Evolution

    Article • July 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  22. Automatic identification of hierarchy in multivariate data

    Article • July 2013, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  23. Interactive simulated robot construction and controller evolution

    Article • July 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  24. Avoiding local optima with interactive evolutionary robotics

    Article • July 2012, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Josh Bongard

  25. Use of an artificial neural network to predict head injury outcome

    Article • Journal of Neurosurgery, September 2010, Journal of Neurosurgery Publishing Group (JNSPG)

    Josh Bongard