Luc Steels

Luc Steels (born 1952) is a Belgian scientist and artist. Steels is considered a pioneer of Artificial Intelligence in Europe who has made important contributions to expert systems, behavior-based robotics, artificial life and evolutionary computational linguistics. He is a fellow of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies [https://www.icrea.cat/ ICREA] associated as a Research Professor with the [https://www.ibe.upf-csic.es/es/home Institute for Evolutionary Biology] ([https://www.upf.edu/ UPF]/[https://www.csic.es/ CSIC]) in Barcelona. He was formerly founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the [https://ai.vub.ac.be/ Vrije Universiteit Brussel] and founding director of the [https://csl.sony.fr/ Sony Computer Science Laboratory] in Paris. Luc Steels has also been active in the arts collaborating with visual artists and theater makers and composing music for opera. Provided by Wikipedia