Book review: The Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence: Building Embodied, Situated Agents edited by Luc Steels (Lawrence Earlbaum, New Jersey)

  • Authors:

  • Stuart Rubin

  • Affiliations:

  • Central Michigan Univ., Mt. Pleasant, MI

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGART Bulletin
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

The book, "The Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence," edited by Luc Steels and Rodney Brooks follows from a workshop held in April of 1991 in the old Priory of Corsendonck, north of Brussels. The workshop was organized by Luc Steels and Rodney Brooks and sponsored by NATO and MIT. The participants were Rodney Brooks, William Clancey, John Hallam, Stevan Harnad, Leslie Kaelbling, Chris Langton, Maja Mataric, Rolf Pfeifer, Tim Smithers, Luc Steels, Charles Taylor, Francis Van Aeken, and Francisco Varela. The purpose of this workshop was to explore a new paradigm in AI, one that is predominantly bottom-up in nature: exploiting intelligent autonomous agents.