Luc Steels is a
BelgianThe Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters, as well as those of other major international organizations, including NATO...
scientist, and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the
Vrije Universiteit BrusselThe Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a Flemish university located in Brussels, Belgium. It has two campuses referred to as Etterbeek and Jette.The university's name is sometimes abbreviated by "VUB" or translated to "Free University of Brussels"...
. He is also heading the
SONYis a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding ¥ 7.730.0 trillion, or $78.88 billion U.S. . Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game...
Computer Science Laboratory in
ParisParis is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. Steels, along with
Rodney BrooksRodney Allen Brooks is a professor of robotics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1986 he has authored a series of highly influential papers, which have inaugurated a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence research...
(his one-time office mate), was one of the initiators of the behaviour-based robotics approach to
artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents,"...
and is closely linked to
artificial lifeArtificial life is a field of study and an associated art form which examine systems related to life, its processes, and its evolution through simulations using computer models, robotics, and biochemistry...
. He also designed
Fluid Construction GrammarFluid construction grammar is a construction grammar formalism designed by Luc Steels implementing the notion of emergent grammar and operates from a multi-agent perspective , useful for studies in evolutionary linguistics.FCG is a fully operational formalism for construction grammars and proposes...
.
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Luc Steels is a
BelgianThe Kingdom of Belgium is a country in northwest Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts its headquarters, as well as those of other major international organizations, including NATO...
scientist, and Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the
Vrije Universiteit BrusselThe Vrije Universiteit Brussel is a Flemish university located in Brussels, Belgium. It has two campuses referred to as Etterbeek and Jette.The university's name is sometimes abbreviated by "VUB" or translated to "Free University of Brussels"...
. He is also heading the
SONYis a multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, and one of the world's largest media conglomerates with revenue exceeding ¥ 7.730.0 trillion, or $78.88 billion U.S. . Sony is one of the leading manufacturers of electronics, video, communications, video game...
Computer Science Laboratory in
ParisParis is the capital of France and the country's most populous city. It is situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
. Steels, along with
Rodney BrooksRodney Allen Brooks is a professor of robotics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Since 1986 he has authored a series of highly influential papers, which have inaugurated a fundamental shift in artificial intelligence research...
(his one-time office mate), was one of the initiators of the behaviour-based robotics approach to
artificial intelligenceArtificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents,"...
and is closely linked to
artificial lifeArtificial life is a field of study and an associated art form which examine systems related to life, its processes, and its evolution through simulations using computer models, robotics, and biochemistry...
. He also designed
Fluid Construction GrammarFluid construction grammar is a construction grammar formalism designed by Luc Steels implementing the notion of emergent grammar and operates from a multi-agent perspective , useful for studies in evolutionary linguistics.FCG is a fully operational formalism for construction grammars and proposes...
.
His recent work on
evolutionary linguisticsEvolutionary linguistics is the scientific study of the origins and development of language. The main challenge in this research is the lack of empirical data: spoken language leaves no traces. This led to an abandonment of the field for more than a century...
has shown increasing signs of some reconciliation with representationalism.
See also
- Behavior based robotics
- Evolutionary linguistics
Evolutionary linguistics is the scientific study of the origins and development of language. The main challenge in this research is the lack of empirical data: spoken language leaves no traces. This led to an abandonment of the field for more than a century...
- Fluid construction grammar
Fluid construction grammar is a construction grammar formalism designed by Luc Steels implementing the notion of emergent grammar and operates from a multi-agent perspective , useful for studies in evolutionary linguistics.FCG is a fully operational formalism for construction grammars and proposes...
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