Luc Steels

Luc Steels (born 1952) is a Belgian scientist and artist. Steels is considered a pioneer of Artificial Intelligence in Europe who has made important contributions to expert systems, behavior-based robotics, artificial life and evolutionary computational linguistics. He is a fellow of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies ICREA associated as a Research Professor with the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (UPF/CSIC) in Barcelona. He was formerly founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and founding director of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. Luc Steels has also been active in the arts collaborating with visual artists and theater makers and composing music for opera.

See also

• Behavior based robotics
• Evolutionary linguistics
• Fluid construction grammar

Notes and references

• Manuel, Tyrus L. (2003). "Creating a Robot Culture: An Interview with Luc Steels" (PDF). IEEE Intelligent Systems. 18 (3 May/June 2003): 59–61. doi:10.1109/MIS.2003.1200730.

Bibliography

• Steels, Luc (1990) "Components of Expertise" 11(2) pp. 28–49.
• Steels, Luc (2001) Grounding Symbols through Evolutionary Language Games. In: Cangelosi A. and Parisi D. (Eds.) Simulating the Evolution of Language Springer.
• Steels, Luc (2011) "Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar" John Benjamins Pub.

Amsterdam.

• Steels, Luc (2011) "Modeling the cultural evolution of language." Physics of Life Reviews, 8(4) pp. 339–356.

External links

• Luc Steels (ICREA)
• Luc Steels (Institut de Biologia Evolutiva)
• Luc Steels (Sony CSL Paris)
• Luc Steels (Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, VUB, Brussels)