Steve Grand

Steve Grand OBE (b. 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. [http://fp.cyberlifersrch.plus.com/people/steve/investiture.htm]

Grand's latest project is 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".

Projects

Creatures

One of the best known projects created by Steve Grand is Creatures, an Artificial Life simulation, which his company Cyberlife released in 1996.

Lucy, the Android

His current project is Lucy, a mechanical baby orang-utan. Lucy is an attempt at simulating the mind of a human baby.

Bibliography

*"Creation: Life and how to make it" (2001) ISBN 0-7538-1277-0
*"Growing up with Lucy" (2004) ISBN 0-297-60733-2

External links

* [http://www.cyberlife-research.co.uk/people/steve/ Steve Grand's personal home page]
* [http://www.akri.org/ai/steveg.htm Transcript of Steve's keynote speech, "Machines Like Us," given at the Applied Knowledge Research Institute's 2002 Biennial Seminar]
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* [http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/cyber_life.shtml Feature article on Steve Grand's anthropoid orangutan, Lucy]
* [http://www.machineslikeus.com/People/Grand_Steve.html Steve Grand quotes]