Harry Foundalis

Harry Foundalis (ΧÎ¬ρης ΦουνταλÎ®ς, born April 14, 1962, in Edessa, Greece) is a cognitive scientist. He has worked on his Ph.D. with Douglas Hofstadter at the University of Indiana at Bloomington, and developed Phaeaco, an architecture to solve Bongard problems, a work for which he has received the University's Dissertation Award. He has also studied in the University of Alabama at Birmingham for an M.Sc. in computer science, and at the University of Crete for a B.S. in mathematics. Though he has focused most of his work on Bongard Problems, he has written in other areas, such as the evolution of language.
His work has been mentioned in publications such as the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics's SIAM News, Association for Computing Machinery's Intelligence, and 's AI Newsletter. His work is also used in Artificial Intelligence and Data Mining courses in Dartmouth College and University of Sussex.
Publications
* Foundalis, H. (2006) Phaeaco: A Cognitive Architecture Inspired by Bongard's Problems, Ph.D. Thesis, Indiana University, Bloomington, 438p.
* Foundalis, H. (2002) Evolution of Gender in Indo-European Languages, Proceedings of the Twenty-fourth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Fairfax, Virginia.
* Foundalis, H., and Martinez, M. (2007) A Generalization of Hebbian Learning in Perceptual and Conceptual Categorization, Proceedings of the European Cognitive Science Conference, Delphi, Greece, pp. 312-317
* Foundalis, H. (1987) A type-scheme for a theorem-proving language. M.Sc. Thesis, University of Alabama at Birmingham.

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