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Frederic Kaplan is the founder and CEO of OZWE, a company that designs and produces innovative interfaces and consumer electronic products. He is also the supervisor of a research team of the CRAFT laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). He graduated as an engineer of the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications in Paris and received a PhD degreee in Artificial Intelligence from the University Paris VI. Before coming to Switzerland, he worked ten years as a researcher at Sony Computer Science Laboratory contributing in particular to the AIBO robot.
His life-long scientifc objective is to found a new "science" of our interactions with everyday objects. To progress towards this goal, he collaborates regularly with psychologists, neuroscientists, designers and architects. His researches have been published in international scientific journals of these different fields. He authored several popular science books in French and English. He is also the chief editor of a multidisciplinary journal publishing leading edge research in the science and technology of embodied autonomous systems. His inventions and devices have been exhibited in several museums including the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
In 2007, Frederic Kaplan was chosen in IEEE Spectrum as one of the rare researchers to have a "Dream Job" Portrait: Frederic Kaplan, AI Auteur
In 2010, Frederic Kaplan was chosen as one of 100 key players of Switzerland
Chronology
1997: Frederic Kaplan joins the Sony Computer Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. Research with Luc Steels on linguistic self-organization.
1999: Regular travels to Tokyo to work with Sony japanese teams on the conception of novel entertainment robots. Collaboration with Adam Miklosi and Eniko Kubinyi, ethologists of the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest.
2001: Publication of "La naissance d'une langue chez les robots"
2002: Research with Pierre-Yves Oudeyer on artificial curiosity. Collaboration with developmental psychologists.
2005: Publication of "Les machines apprivoisées" (Selected as one of the best popular science book of the year for the Roberval price)
2005: Collaboration with Martino d'Esposito, industrial designer and ECAL students on the project : A robot's playroom.
2006: Co-chair of the Epigenetic Robotics Conference in Paris.
2006: Invited by Pierre Dillenbourg, Frederic Kaplan supervises a new team on interactive furniture and robotic objects inside the CRAFT center at EPFL.
2007: Publication of "Futur 2.0" (Fyp editions)
2007: Chief-editor of "Frontiers in Neurorobotics"
2008: Presentation of Wizkid at the MoMA in New York.
2008: Foundation of OZWE with Martino d'Esposito
2009: Presentation of QB1, a new kind of personal computer.
2010: Launch of Bookapp.com.
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