Steve Grand
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Steve Grand OBE (born 12 February 1958) is an English computer scientist. He was the creator and lead programmer of the Creatures artificial life simulation, which he discussed in his first book Creation: Life and how to make it, a finalist for the 2001 Aventis Prize for Science Books. He is also an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, which he received in 2000. [1]
Grand's project from 2001-2006 was the building of an artificial robot baby orang-utan, with the intention of having it learn as a human baby would. This is documented in his book Growing up with Lucy.
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[edit] Projects
[edit] Creatures
One of the best known projects created by Steve Grand is Creatures, an Artificial Life simulation, which his company Cyberlife released in 1996.
[edit] Lucy, the Android
His project from 2001-2006 was Lucy, a mechanical baby orang-utan. Lucy is an attempt at simulating the mind of a human baby.
[edit] Grandroids
Steve Grand has recently started up a company called Grandroids with his wife Sara in Louisiana, producing low production cost androids to be rented for marketing purposes. The current project is an android named 'Grace' designed to read the names of passers-by from labels and make graceful, non-load bearing movements. Grand has placed a tentative completion date of Autumn 2009 on the project but has stressed that there are a lot of unknowns in such a project that may push back completion.
[edit] Bibliography
- Creation: Life and how to make it (2001) ISBN 0-7538-1277-0
- Growing up with Lucy (2004) ISBN 0-297-60733-2
[edit] External links
- Steve Grand's blog
- Transcript of Steve's keynote speech, "Machines Like Us," given at the Applied Knowledge Research Institute's 2002 Biennial Seminar
- Steve Grand at the Creatures Wiki
- Feature article on Steve Grand's anthropoid orangutan, Lucy
- Steve Grand quotes
- Cyberlife Research Limited
- Steve Grand's Machines Like Us interview
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