Richard Evans (AI researcher)

Richard Evans (born 23 October 1969) is an artificial intelligence (AI) specialist working in computer games.

He is the co-founder, along with Emily Short, of Little Text People, developing real-time multiplayer interactive fiction. Little Text People was acquired by Linden Lab in January 2012 for an undisclosed sum. [1]

Previously, he was at EA/Maxis, as the AI lead on The Sims 3.[2]

He designed and implemented the AI for Black & White, for which he received a number of awards, including the Game Developer Choice Award for Programming Excellence.[3][4] For this game he combined a number of different AI techniques from apparently competing AI paradigms, including perceptron training, and decision tree learning. The artificial creature in Black & White holds the Guinness World Record for most intelligent being in a game.[5] Black and White is Number 1 in AIGameDev's most influential AI games.[6]

He is particularly interested in the application of formal logic to AI applications.[7]

References

  1. ↑ Little Text People acquired by Linden Lab
  2. ↑ Sims 3 won Editor's Pick for Best AI in a AAA Game 2009
  3. ↑ Archive/2nd Annual Game Developer Choice Awards from the Game Developer Choice Awards website
  4. ↑ AAAI.Org AAAI.Org
  5. ↑ Blurb on Evans from Invited Speakers list from AIIDE website
  6. ↑ AIGameDev article
  7. ↑ Recent papers

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