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Artificial Intelligence Laboratory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Steels, L., P. Stuer and D. Vereertbrugghen (1996) Issues in the physical realisation of autonomous robotic agents. Steels, L. The Homo Cyber Sapiens, the Robot Homonidus Intelligens, and the artificial life approach to artificial intelligence. Steels, L. and B. Smith (eds.) (1991) Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behavior Conference. arti.vub.ac.be /steels/publications.html   (874 words)

Luc Steels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Steels, L. (2006) Collaborative tagging as distributed cognition. Steels, L. and Beule, J. (2006) Unify and Merge in Fluid Construction Grammar. Steels, L. and Oudeyer, P-Y. (2000) The cultural evolution of syntactic constraints in phonology. www.isrl.uiuc.edu /~amag/langev/author/lsteels.html   (1101 words)

Does schmoozing make robots clever? | CNET News.com Steels' most ambitious projects to date have involved thousands of software agents (bits of code) transporting themselves across the Internet to control robots in different cities across the world. Similarly Steels believes that machines can evolve intelligence through interaction with one another and with their ecology--but this synthetic intelligence it is unlikely to bear much superficial resemblance to human intelligence. Steels built such robots using digital technology and Lego sets in the early 1990s, but in search of the next step turned to the linguistic concept of "representations." For example, a street can be blocked off physically with a roadblock, but a "no entry" sign is a representation that carries the same weight. news.com.com /2100-1040-950237.html   (753 words)

Language Games with Mixed Populations Luc Steels has established a model of concept sharing in artificial agents using two mechanisms: firstly, the partitioning of a perceptual Input Space as a means of Category Formation, and secondly, the use of Language Games amongst agents as a means of Language Sharing. Steels [14] demonstrated that under his model, a linguistically naive agent can be added to the population and will successfully learn the linguistic conventions present in the society. Steels believes that the interaction between language and conceptualisation is very important, and his model achieves this since new categories were formed as an outcome of the Language Games. web.onetel.com /~mikelewin/Lewin_ECAL2003.html   (3829 words)

Concept Formation and Language Sharing: Combining Steels' Language Games with Simple Competitive Learning Luc Steels [31] [29] has argued that ``Language Games'' are a useful way of modelling the acquisition or sharing of language. In his work, Luc Steels demonstrated that new agents can be added to the population and will successfully learn the linguistic conventions present in the society. This is what Luc Steels has attempted to explore in his ``Talking Heads'' Experiment [30], in which agents are free to roam the internet and embody hardware in real locations all over the world. web.onetel.com /~mikelewin/mlewindiss.html   (10699 words)

Steels Luc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Luc Steels studied Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at MIT after a doctorate in computational linguistics from the University of Antwerp (UIA). Currently Steels is professor of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and director of the AI-Lab which he founded in 1983. Steels is a member of the scientific board of Electrum (Stockholm) and past scientific board member of the German National AI institute DFKI (Germany). www.jucs.org /jucs_articles_by_author/Steels_Luc/BusinessCard   (294 words)

Presentations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Invited talk by Luc Steels, paper by Luc Steels and Frédéric Kaplan at ECAL '99. Paper by Luc Steels and Frédéric Kaplan at IJCAI '99. Luc Steels gave a talk about the Talking Heads project at Salon 3, a cultural meeting place, at Elephant and Castle. talking-heads.csl.sony.fr /Documents/Talks/index.html   (194 words)

Re: Ontologies for describing Enterprise Architectures Steels, L., Kaplan, F., McIntyre, A. and van Looveren, J. Crucial factors in the origins of word-meaning. Steels, L. and Oudeyer, P-Y. The cultural evolution of syntactic constraints in phonology. Steels, L. and Kaplan, F. Amorçage d'une sémantique lexicale dans une population d'agents autonomes, ancrés et situés. grouper.ieee.org /groups/suo/email/msg12774.html   (2248 words)

Sony scientist: Robots need culture | Tech News on ZDNet Luc Steels, a professor at the University of Brussels and director of Sony's Computer Science Laboratories in Paris, wants to make robots more like living things by teaching them how to express themselves. Steels believes the next step is for robots to learn by forming concepts they can swap with other robots, thereby develop their own "minds", just as humans do. Steels built such robots using digital technology and Lego sets in the early 1990s, but in search of the next step turned to the linguistic concept of "representations". news.zdnet.com /2100-9584_22-950178.html   (1116 words)

fringecore [magazine]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Performing to a packed house Luc Steels set out by reminding us that experiments and research on artificial intelligence has helped establish that brains do not work in the way people think they do, i.e. Whilst doing this Luc Steels takes the process a step further by creating a language game, which will help the robots to create concepts and language for communication. Luc used multi-media screenings and direct "live" experiments with robots to demonstrate his subject-matter. www.fringecore.com:16080 /magazine/m4-1.html   (1080 words)

Talking Robots: Luc Steels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Luc Steels on the complex topic of language evolution. Luc Steels is professor of Artificial Intelligence at the Talking Heads experiment, the cognitive and genetic basis for language, and the importance of embodiment and robot experiments for understanding the evolution of communication and language." For more on Luc Steels' work, see the robots.net /article/2078.html   (90 words)

Luc Steels Steels, L. and J. De Beule Unify and Merge in Fluid Construction Grammar. Steels, Luc The Emergence of Grammar in Communicating Autonomous Robotic Agents. Steels, Luc Mirror Neurons and the Action Theory of Language Origins. www.csl.sony.fr /General/People/StaffPage.php?username=steels   (2173 words)

Article from Luc Steels for the Festival Catalog Luc Steels studied computer science at MIT (USA) and philosophy and linguistics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium). Steels published a dozen books on artificial intelligence including books on LISP programming and expert systems. Steels is the European editor of the Artificial Life Journal and a member of the New York Academy of Sciences. www.aec.at /festival1995/catalog/steels.html   (1127 words)

DBLP: Luc Steels Luc Steels, Joachim De Beule: Unify and Merge in Fluid Construction Grammar. Luc Steels: The emergence and evolution of linguistic structure: from lexical to grammatical communication systems. Luc Steels: The Spontaneous Self-organization of an Adaptive Language. www.informatik.uni-trier.de /~ley/db/indices/a-tree/s/Steels:Luc.html   (411 words)

[No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Author's Name: Luc Steels Institutional affiliation: Sony CSL - Paris and VUB AI Lab Brussels Email address: steels@arti.vub.ac.be Title of Paper: Computer simulations of the origins of case grammar. Other language users adopt forms, forms compete with each other, and forms may erode to be replaced by other ones (grammaticalisation). Steels, L. and F. Kaplan (2001) Bootstrapping Grounded Word Semantics. www.ling.ed.ac.uk /evolang2002/ABSTRACTS/steels.txt   (444 words)

Talking Robots - The Podcast on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence In this episode we interview Luc Steels, about language evolution, the cognitive and genetic basis for language, and the importance of embodiment and robot experiments for understanding communication. Steels is a professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Brussels (VUB) and director of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. He is one of the pioneers of AI in Europe, having made contributions in the domain of knowledge-based systems, behavior-based robotics, and most recently language evolution. lis.epfl.ch /podcast   (1803 words)

Luc Steels   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Steels has published a large amount of scientific papers and a dozen books, including several books on the origins of intelligence in autonomous robots. Steels is interested in the fundamental problem how cognition may have originated. He has been conducting a series of experiments in which robotic agents develop sensory-motor competence by interacting with the environment and each other. www.psych.lse.ac.uk /complexity/Symposium/torino/lsteels.htm   (183 words)

IFIP'96 Keynote Speakers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Professor Steels is at present director of the AI Laboratory of the Free University of Brussels (VUB) and past-chairman of the VUB Computer Science Department. Luc Steels is involved in numerous projects with industry and ESPRIT, the European Union's research and development programme. Since 1986, Steels has been working on the application of complex dynamics to the construction of intelligent autonomous agents. www.acs.org.au /ifip96/key_speakers.html   (814 words)

KLI Theory Lab - Authors - Luc Steels McFarland, D. Steels, L. Cooperative Robots: A Case Study in Animal Robotics. Steels, L. The synthetic modeling of language origins. Steels, L. /Schreiber, G./Van de Velde, W., eds. www.kli.ac.at /theorylab/AuthPage/S/SteelsL.html   (128 words)

John Benjamins: Contributions by Luc Steels Luc Steels is author/editor of the following titles. Luc Steels is editor/board member of the following series. Luc Steels has contributed to the following volumes. www.benjamins.com /cgi-bin/t_authorview.cgi?author=20028   (102 words)

ECS EPrints Service - Language and the game of life. Commentary on "Coordinating Perceptually Grounded Categories ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) A Case Study for Colour." Luc Steels and Tony Belpaeme. Steels and Belpaeme's simulations contain all the right components, but they are put together wrongly. Color categories are unrepresentative of categories in general and language is not merely naming. eprints.ecs.soton.ac.uk /10503   (390 words)

Luc Steels Speaks Out   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) The IEEE Intelligent Systems bring us an article on Luc Steels's views of Artificial Intelligence. Luc is the director of the University of Brussels Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In this article Luc speaks out on everything from the Turing Test to robots dominating the earth to the educational system. cognews.com /1057425215/index_html   (114 words)

BNAIC Webpage   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Professor Luc Steels is the founder and director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris. Luc Steels' research focuses on the origin and evolution of language. An active topic of research in the theoretical computer science community, there are many avenues of research in CMD that should have direct appeal to the artificial intelligence community. como.vub.ac.be /bnaic2005/speakers.html   (389 words)

EETimes.com - Sony lab tips 'emergent semantics' to make sense of Web A previous research project at Sony CSL called Talking Heads, in which Steels played a principal role in 1999, became the foundation for the development of emergent semantics. In the Talking Heads project, Steels and his team demonstrated how agents could self-organize a shared lexicon as a side effect of their interactions. Sony CSL filed patents in Europe for emergent semantics last month, according to Steels, who claimed that the technology building blocks were ready for integration. www.eetimes.com /article/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=51201131&printable=true   (1128 words)

Luc Steels, - 1999 - The Spontaneous Self-organization of an Adaptive Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Luc Steels, - 1999 - The Spontaneous Self-organization of an Adaptive Language Luc Steels Artificial Intelligence Laboratory Vrije Universiteit Brussel Pleinlaan 2, B­1050 Brussels, Belgium E­mail: steels@arti.vub.ac.be In: Muggleton, S. (ed.) (1996) Machine Intelligence 15. Abstract The paper studies how a group of distributed agents may sponta­ neously and autonomously develop a language to refer to other agents in their environment by engaging in a series of language games. www.isrl.uiuc.edu /~amag/langev/paper/steels99theSpontaneous.html   (302 words)

How new words become part of a language - being-human - 16 October 2005 - New Scientist Luc Steels of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory Paris in France and his colleagues studied the "naming game", a simple computer model that reflects how people invent words and use them. In the game, a group of "agents" live in a virtual environment with a number of "objects". While Steels and colleagues hope to develop more complex models capable of evolving grammar, they already see potential applications in computing. www.newscientist.com /channel/being-human/dn8163   (513 words)

Luc Steels - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Luc Steels is Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and is heading the SONY Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. Steels, along with Rodney Brooks (his one-time office mate), was one of the initiators of the behaviour-based robotics approach to artificial intelligence and is closely linked to artificial life. His recent work on evolutionary linguistics has shown increasing signs of some reconciliation with representationalism. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Luc_Steels   (140 words)

The Birth of a Language (reddit.com) Rather than support Chomsky's theories (which say very little about how language evolves) as the article erroneously states, this discovery further validates Luc Steels' experimental work on the creation of language by autonomous robots. Steels has demonstrated in the laboratory what happens when autonomous robots communicate in a shared environment. Objects and actions are named, competing terms are created, some terms become preferred while others fade from common use, some terms remain in use by a minority of the population, etc. reddit.com /info/p7qy/comments   (385 words)

Any suggestions for a master thesis in AI? - GameDev.Net Discussion Forums Anyway, not soon after 2002, Sony pulled the plug on the project (although it is still explored by the head of research Luc Steels). All the papers and research are openly available and Luc Steels also wrote a book which provides a good all round summary of how it worked. P.S. They used real robots in the experiments, but you could still recreate the experiment as a computer simulation (they tended to use their simulation as proof as concept, although Steels did have his reasons for using robots in the final implementation). www.gamedev.net /community/forums/topic.asp?topic_id=427281   (886 words)

Bellingham Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Society   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) Markus Waibel writes, "In the new episode of [EPFL podcast] Talking Robots we interview Luc Steels on the complex topic of language evolution. Luc Steels is professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Brussels (VUB) and director of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. He talks about his famous Talking Heads experiment, the cognitive and genetic basis for language, and the importance of embodiment and robot experiments for understanding the evolution of communication and language." For more on Luc Steels' work, see the VUB AI Lab website. bairs.cs.wwu.edu /main.php?page=news   (1536 words)

BBC News | SCI/TECH | Robot dog learns its first words   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) For the experiment, Professor Steels and his team used an Aibo with twice the normal brain capacity of the model in the shops, and used a state-of-the-art speech system. By teaching Aibo its first words from scratch, they were hoping to gain an insight into how children learn to associate objects with words and then attach certain meaning to those words. But Professor Steels realised they had a long way to go before they could develop a truly intelligent Aibo. news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/science/nature/1645755.stm   (421 words)

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