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'''Gerardo Beni''' (born Florence, Italy 21 February 1946) is a [[professor]] of [[electrical engineering]] at [[University of California, Riverside]] who, with Jing Wang, is known as the originator of the term '' '[[swarm intelligence]]' '' <ref>{{Cite web|date=January 1993|title=Swarm Intelligence in Cellular Robotic Systems|url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226606338}}</ref><ref>Beni, G., Wang, J. Swarm Intelligence in Cellular Robotic Systems, Proceed. NATO Advanced Workshop on Robots and Biological Systems, Tuscany, Italy, June 26–30 (1989)</ref> in the [[Context (language use)|context]] of [[cellular robotics]] and the concept of '' '[[electrowetting]]' '',<ref> Beni, G. and Hackwood, S., Electrowetting Displays, Applied Physics Letter, 38,4, pp.207-209207–209,1982 1982</ref>, with [[Susan Hackwood]]. He also devised, with Xuan-Li Xie, the Xie-Beni IndexXie–Beni index<ref> Xie, X.L., and Beni,G. A Validity Measure for Fuzzy Clustering, IEEE Trans.Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, vol. 13, pp. 841-847841–847, (1991)</ref> for measuring the validity of [[fuzzy clustering]].

He is the author of '' '"From Swarm Intelligence to Swarm Robotics' ''" in the book ''Swarm Robotics''<ref> [[{{ISBN]] |978-3-540-24296-3}}, [[Digital object identifier|DOI]] 10.1007/b105069, [httphttps://wwwdoi.springerlinkorg/10.com/content/xn02ymel1b22rjp8/1007%2F978-3-540-30552-1_1 Springer].</ref>

In [[1970]] Beni was [[Graduation|admitted]] to the [[Laurea]] in [[Physicsphysics]] at the [[University of Florence]], [[Florence]], [[Italy]].<ref name="ucr">[{{Cite web |url=http://www.engr.ucr.edu/faculty/ee/beni.html |title=Electrical Engineering: Gerardo Beni<!-- Bot generated title -->] |access-date=2007-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105113705/http://www.engr.ucr.edu/faculty/ee/beni.html |archive-date=2015-01-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref>.

In [[1974]], he was received his [[PhD]] in [[Theoreticaltheoretical Physicsphysics]] at [[University of California, Los Angeles|UCLA]].<ref name="ucr"/>.

Beni has [[research]] [[interest]]s in swarm intelligence, [[3D animation]], and [[financial engineering]].<ref name="homepage">[http://www.ee.ucr.edu/~beni/ Gerardo Beni<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>.

Before moving to [[UC Riverside]], he worked at [[UC Santa Barbara]] and [[AT&T Bell Laboratories]].<ref name="ucr"/>.

He helped found the [[Journal of Robotic Systems]], and between [[1982]] and [[2005]] he was also its [[Executive director|director]]. The journal won the [[Journal of the Year Award]] in 1984.<ref name="ucr"/>.

In [[1982]], Beni was made a [[Fellow]] of the [[American Physical Society]]. In [[1999]], he became a Fellow of the [[American Association for the Advancement of Science|AAAS]].<ref name="ucr"/>.

Beni has been issued, either alone or in conjunction with other [[inventor]]s, several [[patent]]s from the [[USPTO]]:<ref name="patentsearch">[http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=Gerardo&FIELD1=INNM&co1=AND&TERM2=Beni&FIELD2=INNM&d=PTXT Patent Database Search Results: IN/Gerardo AND IN/Beni in US Patent Collection<!-- Bot generated title -->]{{Dead link|date=May 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>:

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