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==Career==
De Garis originally studied [[theoretical physics]], but he abandoned this field in favour of artificial intelligence. In 1992 he received his PhD from [[Université Libre de Bruxelles]], Belgium. 

From 1993 to 2000 de Garis was a researcher at the Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International in [[Kansai Science City]], Japan. At ATR's Human Information Processing Research Laboratories (ATR-HIP), he aimed to create a billion-neuron [[artificial brain]] he called a "[[cellular automata]] machine brain" (CAM-brain) by the year 2001. He predicted CAM-brains could scale indefinitely and could be used to create asteroid-sized brain-like computers.<ref name="degaris96"/><ref>{{cite web | author = BBC News | author-link = BBC News | url = https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/250343.stm | title = Best brain boosts artificial life | date = 7 January 1999 | access-date = 5 January 2010 | archive-date = 19 September 2007 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070919133638/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/250343.stm | url-status = live }}</ref> De Garis moved to [[Starlab]] in Brussels in 2000, and the HIP laboratory was closed in February 2001.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/ | title=HIP World Wide Web Server | quote=The project of ATR Human Information Processing Research Laboratories (ATR-HIP) was closed on 28 February 2001 | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060706083452/http://www.hip.atr.co.jp/ | archive-date=6 July 2006}}</ref> Starlab went bankrupt in 2001. De Garis published his last "CAM-Brain" research paper in 2002.<ref>{{cite journal | title=The CAM-Brain Machine (CBM): an FPGA-based hardware tool that evolves a 1000 neuron-net circuit module in seconds and updates a 75&nbsp;million neuron artificial brain for real-time robot control |author1=Hugo de Garis |author2=Michael Korkin | journal=Neurocomputing | volume=42 | year=2002 | pages=35–68 | url=http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/rd/40250453%2C404160%2C1%2C0.25%2CDownload/http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/cache/papers/cs/19599/http:zSzzSzfoobar.starlab.netzSz%7EdegariszSzpaperszSzmyjrnl.pdf/degaris02cambrain.pdf | doi=10.1016/S0925-2312(01)00593-8 | issue=1–4|citeseerx=10.1.1.29.400 }}</ref>

He was associate professor of computer science at [[Utah State University]] from 2001 to 2006. Starting in June 2006 he was part of the advisory board of Novamente, a commercial company which aimed to create [[artificial general intelligence]]. After 2006 he was a professor at [[Xiamen University]] and [[Wuhan University]] where he taught [[theoretical physics]] and [[computer science]]. In 2008 he received a 3&nbsp;million [[Chinese yuan]] grant (around $436,000) to build an artificial brain for China as part of the ''Brain Builder Group'' at [[Wuhan University]].<ref>{{
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De Garis retired in late 2010.<ref>{{
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