Interviews

• Al Biles
  John Al Biles is well-renowned on the computer/music scene for his work with GenJam, the computer jazz improviser. Mr. Biles works at the Rochester Institute of Technology as a professor and the undergraduate program coordinator.

• Tim Crane
  Tim Crane is a lecturer of philosophy at the University College London (UCL). He specializes in the philosophy of the mind, and recently (1995) wrote a book called The Mechanical Mind. An long and excellent interview, well worth a read.

• Robby Glen Garner
  Robby Garner is the winner of the '98 and '99 Loebner Competition - a formalized version of the Turing Test. His creations are at the forefront of the 'conversational' programming envisioned by Alan Turing.

• Steve Grand
  Steve Grand is the Director of Technology at Cyberlife, the company that made the Creatures programs. With some incredible insights of ALife.

• Andre LaMothe
  Andre LaMothe is CEO of Xtreme Games LLC, and has authored many books on game programming. He has degrees in Mathematics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering. He has worked on 2D/3D graphics, Artificial Intelligence, Compiler Design, Robotics Engineering, Virtual Reality, and Telecommunications.

• Steven Levy
  Steven Levy is a well renowned ALife author - especially for his book, Artificial Life: Quest for New Life. Mr. Levy is currently the senior editor of Newsweek.

• Marvin Minsky
  Marvin Minsky, considered by many to be the father of AI, has made major contributions to nearly every discipline in artificial intelligence. While he is also the founder of the MIT AI labs, he is mostly well known for his book The Society of the Mind.

• Craig Reynolds
  Craig Reynolds is an internationally renowned for his work with Boids, the program that first utilized flocking. With over 7 movie credits to his name (including Disney's TRON and Warner Brothers' Batman Returns). Reynolds was also "...winner of the Scientific And Engineering Award presented by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for pioneering contributions to the development of three-dimensional computer animation for motion picture production as part of the 70th Academy Awards® held in 1998..." (Reynolds)

• Roger Schank
  Professor Roger Schank has contributed a lot to the study of natural language and Cognitive Science. He enlightened the field of natural language with conceptual dependency and scripts. He is the founder and director of The Institute for the Learning Sciences in Northwestern University.

• John Searle
  Professor of Philosophy at Berkeley, and originator of the famous "Chinese Room" analogy. This analogy has been the most quote argument against Artificial Intelligence since its inception twenty years ago.

• Steve Smith
  Steve has many accomplishments - to name a few he was the Apache program chief engineer for the TADS/PNVS systems, he founded System Dynamics International's (SDI) St. Louis Technical Center, and (most importantly for the field of AI!) in 1988 he wrote some Pascal code to implement what he called 'evolutionary problem solving' - which later became the famous e evolutionary algorithm.

• Steven Woodcock
  Steven Woodcock has been a programmer for over 15 years, programming in many languages, over many platforms ranging from the Intel i740 to Model 2 Arcade machines to Cray supercomputers! His programming experience ranges from weapons programming, defense simulations to real-time 3D gaming, and Artificial Intelligence. Mr. Woodcock maintains a site on gaming AI that is widely considered as the best site of its kind.