H. Zenil, "Compression-based approach to the investigation of dynamical properties of cellular automata and other systems," forthcoming in Complex Systems.
Selected Demonstrations Demonstrations are peer-reviewed small pieces of dynamical
code written in Mathematica showing a mathematical concept or scientific idea.
If you do not have Mathematica in order to run these Demonstrations you can download the Mathematica Player for free.
Conference Talk: How might the human mind be computationally more powerful
than Turing machines? in joint with Francisco Hernandez-Quiroz The Centre for Complexity Research, Society and Complexity Conference September 2005, University of Liverpool, England.
Panel discussion organizer, NKS 2007 Science Conference, University of Vermont, featuring Gregory Chaitin, Stephen Wolfram, Paul Davies, John Casti, Karl Svozil, Cristian Calude.
Peer reviewer for the journals of Fundamenta Informaticae, Complex Systems, Information Processing Letters and Discrete Applied Mathematics.
Peer reviewer for Computing Reviews, Association for Computing Machinery since 2002 (reviewer No. 5666).
Shareholder and CEO
1998-2003
Enterprise Business Solutions (EBS) with customers such as Telcel, Maxcom, Nextel, Unefon, ADT, Alestra (AT&T), among others. Mexico City, Mexico.
IT consultant
1996-2000
CNBV (The Mexican banking regulatory commission) and KPMG (mainly for TELCOs) Mexico City, Mexico.
Volunteering and Internships Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)
Summer 2007 Mars Gravity Biosatellite team
Supporting member of the software engineering team for the program, in charge of assembling, reviewing and enhancing software requirements and flowdown.
The International Wikimania Conference
Summer 2006
for the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. (the Wikipedia foundation) Wikimedia Organization Team, July-August, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.) Summer 2006 Artificial Gravity Project(test subject)
Man-Vehicle Laboratory, August, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Mexican Consulate in Seattle WA
December 2003-January 2004 Documentation and Consular Activities
Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.
Awards and Grants Ministère de l'Enseignement supérieur et de la Recherche (bourse de mobilité aires culturelles), University of Paris.
Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL) Travel Grant Award(CiE 06, Swansea UK)
NSF grantthrough the New England Complex Institute (NECSI) (ICCS06-Boston, USA)
Université de Lille III, Kurt Gödel: the writings, Maison de la Recherche 2006, Lille, France Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge University, (Workshop LAAW04, Wolfson Court, Girton College, UK) Wolfram Research Inc. (NKS SS 2005 at Brown University, Providence, USA) CONACYT (Master and PhD scolarships from the Mexican and French governments)
Other affiliations Association for Symbolic Logic (ASL), since 2005.
Kurt Gödel Society (KGS), since 2006.
Other Publications
English
Hector Zenil, Natural computation and non-Turing models of computation Printed 12/1/2005, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Hector Zenil, Emergence of a super-Turing computational potential in artificial living systems Published Online 6/17/2005, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Hector Zenil, Reconstructing a simple polytope from its graph Printed 2/1/2005, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Hector Zenil, Theoretical computer science: introduction to automata, computability, complexity, algorithmics, randomization, communication, and cryptography Printed 1/1/2005, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Hector Zenil Chavez: Artificial Intelligence Profits from Biological Lessons, Distributed Systems Online 5(5): (2004) (IEEE)
Hector Zenil, Computability theory review Printed 8/1/2004, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Hector Zenil, Introduction to languages, machines, and logic: computable machines, abstract machines, and formal logic, Printed 2/1/2004, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Hector Zenil, Shakespeare, a biography.
Published by Editores Unidos Mexicanos, Type: Book
Hector Zenil, Teoría de Poliedros Anidados: Contando Subcuadrados en Látices. Revista Laberintos e Infinitos, ITAM, 2005
Hector Zenil, Sistemas Complejos Adaptativos y Computación Evolutiva: La sopa primigenia de las conductas inteligentes emergentes. Revista Ciencia de la Academia Mexicana de Ciencias, A.C. 2005
Hector Zenil, ¿3=3? Lo que un número es o no es. Revista Ciencias No. 74 de la Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, 2005
Space Shuttle Endeavour STS-123 liftoff (video taken by Hector Zenil on March 11, 2008)
This video recording was taken from the vantage point of the Banana river, 6 miles from the Shuttle platform in a restricted area inside the Kennedy Space Center. The STS-123 was the 25th. flight to the International Space Station (ISS) and will be delivering a Japanese module and the Canadian Dextre robot.
From left to right: Hector Zenil, Stephen Wolfram, Paul Davies, Ugo Pagallo, Gregory Chaitin, Cristian Calude, Karl Svozil, Gordana Dodig-Crnkovic and John Casti. University of Vermont, Burlington, USA. Picture taken by Sally McCay.
Héctor Zenil-Chávez, Personal Homepage 2006-2009
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Hector Zenil
<hector.zenil [at] lifl.fr>
<hectorz [at] alumni.cmu.edu>
Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille and IHPST (Paris 1)
WWW URL: "http://zenil.mathrix.org"
