Luc Steels

Luc Steels is Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Independent University of Brussels, where he heads a robotics laboratory. It is part of the Computer Science Department and concentrates on three lines of research: the genesis of linguistic competence, 'software agents' and 'robotic agents'. Steels is the co-publisher of 'A Learning Zone of One's Own' (2004), 'The Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence' (1995) and other works, and is the author of 'Kennissystemen' (Knowledge Systems) (1992).

Luc Leo Steels (born 22 January 1952) is a Belgian scientist and artist. Steels works with artificial intelligence in Europe who has made contributions to expert systems, behavior-based robotics, artificial life and evolutionary computational linguistics. He was a fellow of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA) associated as a research professor with the Institute of 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. Steels has collaborated with visual artists and theater makers and composed music for opera. read more on Wikipedia...