Holk Cruse

Holk Cruse (born July 31, 1942 in Stuttgart ) is a German biologist and works in the field of biocybernetics .

Life

Cruse studied biology, physics and mathematics in Freiburg im Breisgau and received his doctorate in 1972 from the University of Stuttgart on the subject of pattern recognition in honey bees . After research stays at the University of Kaiserslautern and at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen, he completed his habilitation in 1976 in the field of zoology .

From 1981 to 2009 Cruse headed the Biological Cybernetics / Theoretical Biology group at Bielefeld University . In 1993/94, Cruse and Helge Ritter headed the research group “Prerational Intelligence” at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Bielefeld. In 1995/96 and 2008/09 he was a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin . Since 2009 he has been working as a Principal Investigator in the Cluster of Excellence CITEC (Cognitive Interaction Technologies) at Bielefeld University.

Cruse is an expert in the fields of artificial neural networks and bionics . Among other things, he developed simulation models for autonomous six-legged walking robots based on the biological model of the stick insect .

In 1993, Cruse received the Körber “Bionics of Running” award together with Francois Clarac, Felix Chernousko, and Friedrich Pfeiffer .

literature

• Autonomous running. Springer, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-540-25044-1 .
• Neural Networks as Cybernetic Systems. Thieme, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 3-13-102181-0 .
• The discovery of intelligence or: Can ants think. CH Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-44073-8 . (dtv 2001, ISBN 3-423-33064-3 ).

Web links

• WG Biological Cybernetics / Theoretical Biology at Bielefeld University on uni-bielefeld.de
• Neural Networks as Cybernetic Systems. as an e-book at Brains, Minds & Media 2009.
• Holk Cruse: The Birth of Intelligence. Interview. In: Joscha Remus: Infonautics - Knowledge in Motion. (infonautik.de)
• Holk Cruse: "The joints are free". Interview. In: The time. No. 29, July 10, 2003. (zeit.de)
• Documentary with Holk Cruse: “The Making Of”. on sredafilmcom