Richard Evans

(AI researcher)

For other persons named Richard Evans, see Richard Evans (disambiguation).

Richard Evans

Richard Evans is an artificial intelligence (AI) researcher working in computer games. He is of English and Welsh ancestry, and is widely known as 'Strawberry Grimbleface'.^{[citation needed]}

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.^[1] 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.^[2]

He is particularly interested in the application of philosophical ideas to AI applications, particularly the normative pragmatism of Hegel, Heidegger and Wittgenstein.^[3] This application of normative pragmatism in game AI has influenced a number of recent games, including F.E.A.R..^{[citation needed]}

He is currently working at Maxis, applying normative pragmatism to the next generation of The Sims.

References

^ Archive/2nd Annual Game Developer Choice Awards from the Game Developer Choice Awards website
^ Blurb on Evans from Invited Speakers list from AIIDE website
^ Wittgenstinian social practice by Evans and Thomas Barnet-Lamb

External links

Richard Evans' profile at MobyGames

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