Publications

Everything my name was ever on, from book chapters to letters to the editor.

Selected publications highlighted in yellow.

Ancient Brain

The Ancient Brain project is a coding website, at: ancientbrain.com
This site currently hosts programs (mostly JavaScript, also Python and TypeScript).
See web page: Showcase Worlds.

Bringing AI APIs into the classroom with a JavaScript coding site (and PDF), Mark Humphrys, International Journal of Information and Education Technology (IJIET), 2025, Vol.15, No.2, pp.272-279. (Journal publication of EAIT 2024 paper.)

Bringing AI APIs into the classroom with a JavaScript coding site (talk), Mark Humphrys, 5th International Conference on Education and Artificial Intelligence Technologies (EAIT 2024), 17-19 Oct 2024, London. Part of ICAAI 2024. (Proceedings published by ACM.)

Ancient Brain: A JavaScript coding platform for education with 3D graphics, Websockets, AI and support for teachers (and PDF), Mark Humphrys, Proc. 8th International Conference on Digital Technology in Education (ICDTE 2024), 7-9 Aug 2024, Berlin, Germany, pp.28-38. (Proceedings published by ACM.)

The World-Wide-Mind

The World-Wide-Mind project was in retrospect about early forms of AI APIs.
See the project website: w2mind.org
See web page: Selected 2014 Worlds.
See web page: Selected 2012 Worlds.
These ideas led to Ancient Brain.

An Experimental System for Real-time Interaction Between Humans and Hybrid AI Agents, John Pendlebury, Mark Humphrys and Ray Walshe, 6th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Systems (IS'12), Sofia, Bulgaria, September 6-8, 2012.
Massively Multi-Author Hybrid Artificial Intelligence (and PDF), John Pendlebury, Mark Humphrys and Ray Walshe, ERCIM News, Issue 89, April 2012, pp.40-41.
A Framework for Scaling Up Distributed Minds, Oisín Mac Fhearaí, Mark Humphrys and Ray Walshe, 3rd International Conference on Software, Services & Semantic Technologies (S3T 2011), Bourgas, Bulgaria, September 1-3, 2011.
Assembling Hybrid Minds, Oisín Mac Fhearaí, Mark Humphrys and Ray Walshe, 22nd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS-2011), University of Ulster, 31 Aug to 2 Sept 2011.
A High-Speed Architecture For Building Hybrid Minds, Oisín Mac Fhearaí, Mark Humphrys and Ray Walshe, 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence (ICAART 2011), Rome, Italy, Jan 28-30, 2011.
Collaborative Online Development of Modular Intelligent Agents (and PDF), Ciarán O'Leary, Mark Humphrys and Ray Walshe, ERCIM News, Issue 64, January 2006.
A novel application of Web Services in Computer Science education, Ciarán O'Leary, Mark Humphrys and Ray Walshe, International Conference on "Computer as a tool" (EUROCON 2005), Belgrade, Serbia & Montenegro, Nov 2005.
Constructing Complex Brains: Building minds using sub-minds from biotechnology authors, Ray Walshe, Mark Humphrys and Ciarán O'Leary, 1st IFIP Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations (AIAI-04), Toulouse, France, August 22-27, 2004.

Constructing an animat mind using 505 sub-minds from 234 different authors, Ciarán O'Leary, Mark Humphrys and Ray Walshe, From Animals To Animats 8: 8th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-04), July 2004, Los Angeles, CA. MIT Press, pp.39-48.

Building a hybrid Society of Mind using components from ten different authors, Ciarán O'Leary and Mark Humphrys, Advances in Artificial Life: 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-03), Dortmund, Germany, September 14-17, 2003, Springer-Verlag, LNAI 2801, pp.839-846.

Constructing complex minds through multiple authors (and PDF), Mark Humphrys and Ciarán O'Leary, From Animals To Animats 7: 7th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-02), August 2002, Edinburgh, Scotland. MIT Press, pp.3-12.

Lowering the entry level: Lessons from the Web and the Semantic Web for the World-Wide-Mind (and PDF), Ciarán O'Leary and Mark Humphrys, 1st International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC-02), June 2002, Sardinia, Italy.
The Implementation of a Distributed Hierarchical Mind on the Internet using the World-Wide-Mind (and PDF), Dave O'Connor and Mark Humphrys, Dublin City University, School of Computing, Technical Report no. CA-0302, 2002.

Distributing a Mind on the Internet: The World-Wide-Mind (and PDF), Mark Humphrys, Advances in Artificial Life: 6th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-01), Prague, Czech Republic, 2001. Springer-Verlag, LNAI 2159, pp.669-680.

First Implementation of the World-Wide-Mind (and PDF), Ray Walshe and Mark Humphrys, Advances in Artificial Life: 6th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-01), Prague, Czech Republic, 2001. Springer-Verlag, LNAI 2159, pp.714-718.

The World-Wide-Mind: Draft Proposal (and PDF), Mark Humphrys, Dublin City University, School of Computing, Technical Report no. CA-0301, 2001.

Action Selection

This was work in the early years of Reinforcement Learning, a field that finally took off in the modern AI era.
See Movie demo: W-learning in the Ant World problem.
See Movie demo: The House Robot problem.

Action Selection methods using Reinforcement Learning (and PDF), Mark Humphrys, PhD thesis (expanded version), Technical Report no.426, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, 1997.

Action Selection methods using Reinforcement Learning, Mark Humphrys, PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, 1996.

Action Selection methods using Reinforcement Learning, Mark Humphrys, From Animals to Animats 4: Fourth International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB-96), Massachusetts, USA, 1996. MIT Press/Bradford Books, pp.135-144.

Action Selection in a hypothetical house robot: Using those RL numbers, Mark Humphrys, First International ICSC Symposia on Intelligent Industrial Automation (IIA-96) and Soft Computing (SOCO-96), Reading, England, 1996. ICSC Academic Press, pp. B 216-22.
Towards self-organising Action Selection, Mark Humphrys, 14th Workshop of the UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group (SIGPLAN 14), University of Essex, 1995. Technical Report no.255, Department of Computer Science, University of Essex.
W-learning: A simple RL-based Society of Mind, Mark Humphrys, 3rd European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL-95), Granada, Spain, 1995.

W-learning: Competition among selfish Q-learners, Mark Humphrys, Technical Report no.362, University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, April 1995.

The Turing Test

In 1989, when an undergraduate, I put a chatbot on the Internet to answer messages sent to me.
This was apparently the first ever AI on the Internet that people did not know was an AI.
See web page: How my program passed the Turing Test.

How my program passed the Turing Test (and PDF), Mark Humphrys, Ch.15 of Parsing the Turing Test: Philosophical and Methodological Issues in the Quest for the Thinking Computer (eds. Robert Epstein, Gary Roberts and Grace Beber), Springer, 2008, pp.237-260.

Other AI

Hybrid PSO-SFM Algorithm for Intelligent Multi-Floor Emergency Evacuation with Dynamic Staff Coordination, Niveditha Vudayagiri, Dasha Shivadarshan and Mark Humphrys, 33rd Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS 2025), Dublin, 1-2 December 2025.
Imitative Learning of Combat Behaviours in First-Person Computer Games, Bernard Gorman and Mark Humphrys, 10th International Conference on Computer Games (CGAMES-07), Louisville, Kentucky, July 2007.
Learning Human Behavior from Analyzing Activities in Virtual Environments, Christian Bauckhage, Bernard Gorman, Christian Thurau and Mark Humphrys, MMI interaktiv journal, 2007, Issue: 12 Pages: 3-17.
The QASE API - An Integrated Platform for AI Research and Education Through First-Person Computer Games, Bernard Gorman, Martin Fredriksson and Mark Humphrys, International Journal of Intelligent Games and Simulations (IJIGS), Volume 4 Issue 2, June 2007.
Bayesian Imitation of Human Behavior in Interactive Computer Games, Bernard Gorman, Christian Thurau, Christian Bauckhage and Mark Humphrys, 18th International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), 2006, pp. 1244-1247.

Believability Testing and Bayesian Imitation in Interactive Computer Games, Bernard Gorman, Christian Thurau, Christian Bauckhage and Mark Humphrys, 9th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior (SAB 2006). Springer, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4095, pp.655-666, 2006.

Towards Integrated Imitation of Strategic Planning and Motion Modelling in Interactive Computer Games, Bernard Gorman and Mark Humphrys, ACM Computers in Entertainment, Vol. 4, No. 4, October 2006.
QASE - An Integrated API for Imitation and General AI Research in Commercial Computer Games, Bernard Gorman, Martin Fredriksson and Mark Humphrys, IEEE 7th International Conference on Computer Games (CGAMES 2005).
Towards Integrated Imitation of Strategic Planning and Motion Modelling in Interactive Computer Games, Bernard Gorman and Mark Humphrys, Third Annual International Conference in Computer Game Design and Technology (GDTW 2005).
The Hardest Problem in the History of Science (talk), Mark Humphrys, What Ever Happened to HAL? - The Future of Artificial Intelligence, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Feb 2000.
AI is possible .. but AI won't happen: The future of Artificial Intelligence (talk), Mark Humphrys, "Next Generation" symposium, "Science and the Human Dimension" series, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1997. Published in Neo magazine, June 1998.

Other computing

Problems with Internet and Library Usage For Secondary School Children, Tom Nolan and Mark Humphrys, ITB Journal, Issue Number 8, Dec 2003, pp.118-151.
Why on earth would I link to you?, Mark Humphrys, Irish Times, 15 Feb 1999.
The Objective evidence: A real-life comparison of Procedural and Object-Oriented Programming, Mark Humphrys, technical report, IBM Ireland Information Services Ltd, 1991. Presented at "OO Symposium" conference, IBM La Hulpe, Belgium, 1991.

History

I have written extensively about history.
Most of my output is on this website: humphrysfamilytree.com
This site hosts over 2,800 public pages of research, including over 37,000 public images.
See web page: How to read my narrative family trees.
See web page: Common ancestors of all humans.

The origin story of O'Mara of Limerick, Mark Humphrys, The North Munster Antiquarian Journal, Vol. 62, 2022 (published 2026), pp.75-96.

"The Thomond - Dublin 4's forgotten motor car" (and source), Mark Humphrys, Ireland Made, 25 Dec 2025.
The Flanagan family of West Co.Dublin (talk), Mark Humphrys, Kilmainham Inchicore Heritage Group, 15 Dec 2025.
The Flanagan estate of Crumlin and Walkinstown (talk), Mark Humphrys, Crumlin and Walkinstown History Festival, 24 Aug 2024.
The Queen's Irish ancestry (talk), Mark Humphrys, Jubilee Talks, Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, Northern Ireland. 17 Feb 2022.
Alice Cashel (1878-1958), Mark Humphrys, in Cumann na mBan: County Galway Dimensions, Galway County Council, 2015.
The Rahilly and O'Rahilly family (talk), Mark Humphrys, O'Rahilly Commemoration, Ballylongford, Co.Kerry, 11 Apr 2015.
Ryan Tubridy descends from Brian Boru. And so do you. (talk), Mark Humphrys, Brian Boru Millennium Commemoration Weekend, Killaloe, Co.Clare, 12 Apr 2014.
The Queen's Irish Ancestors (letter), Mark Humphrys, Irish Times, 21 May 2011.
Counting the ancestors (letter), Mark Humphrys, Irish Times, 10 Dec 2010.

Ryan Tubridy descends from Brian Boru. And so do you. Mark Humphrys, Irish Times, 1 Dec 2010.

The "Bush is descended from Strongbow" controversy (letter), Mark Humphrys, Irish Times, 1 Feb 2005.
Hypertext for 1-name studies v. Hypertext for family histories: A reply to John Bending, Mark Humphrys, Computers in Genealogy 7(3):121-128, Sept 2000. Society of Genealogists, London.

"Hypertext Indented Narrative" pedigree format, Mark Humphrys, Computers in Genealogy 7(1):26-46, Mar 2000. Society of Genealogists, London.

Thomond Motor Car (letter), Mark Humphrys, Irish Times, 29 May 1989.

Ireland's First Car, Mark Humphreys (later Humphrys), Irish Motor Sport Annual 1985, Jemma Publications Ltd, Dublin. (My only publication written before I changed my name.)

Politics

I have written extensively about politics.
Most of my output is on this website: markhumphrys.com
This site hosts over 380 pages or articles.

Every pro-Israel argument (and PDF), Mark Humphrys, The Critic, 9 May 2024.

Israel boycott debate (letter), Mark Humphrys, The Sunday Times (Irish edition), 7 Apr 2019.
The Gaza debate (letter), Mark Humphrys, The Sunday Times (Irish edition), 10 June 2018.
Boycotting Israel is a hopeless misdiagnosis of the problem (and PDF), Mark Humphrys, RTE opinion, 1 June 2018.

Gazans should abandon "the struggle" if they want a better life (and PDF), Mark Humphrys, The Sunday Times (Irish edition), 27 May 2018.

The Halawa case (letter), Mark Humphrys, The Sunday Times (Irish edition), 12 Nov 2017.

Irish support for tyranny (and PDF), Mark Humphrys, The Sunday Times (Irish edition), 19 Mar 2017.

Palestine, Israel and the UCC conference (letter), Mark Humphrys, The College View, DCU, 22 Feb 2017.
The Israel debate (letter), Mark Humphrys, The Sunday Times (Irish edition), 6 Nov 2016.
Why do people support the Palestinians? (and PDF), Mark Humphrys, The Sunday Times (Irish edition), 23 Oct 2016.

Islam needs to become less confident (and PDF), Mark Humphrys, The Sunday Times (Irish edition), 31 July 2016.

Where is Halawa family's respect for the freedom we enjoy? Mark Humphrys, The Sunday Times (Irish edition), 31 Jan 2016.

Why I support Israel, Mark Humphrys, The College View, DCU, 20 Nov 2013.
Gaza protest in Dublin (letter), Mark Humphrys, Irish Times, 4 June 2010.
Jaber Wishah (letter), Mark Humphrys, The College View, DCU, October 28, 2009.
Belief and scepticism (letter), Mark Humphrys, Newsweek, 26 Dec 1994.

Total

Total number of publications on this page:
(As stated, this includes everything from book chapters to letters to the editor.)

My profile on Google Scholar.
When last I looked, I had 766 citations and a h-index of 11.