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Richard Evans (AI researcher)

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Name
  
Richard Evans

Role
  
AI researcher



Organizations founded
  
LittleTextPeople

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.

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

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. 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. Black and White is Number 1 in AIGameDev's most influential AI games.

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

References

Richard Evans (AI researcher) Wikipedia