Richard Evans is an artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

 (AI) specialist working in computer games

Computer Games

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He is currently collaborating with Andrew Stern (Facade

Facade

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) on an unannounced game funded by ngmoco

Ngmoco

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Previously, he was at EA

Electronic Arts

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/Maxis

Maxis

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, as the AI lead on The Sims 3

The Sims 3

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He designed and implemented the AI

Game artificial intelligence

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 for Black & White, for which he received a number of awards, including the Game Developer Choice Award for Programming Excellence. For this game he combined a number of different AI techniques from apparently competing AI paradigms, including perceptron

Perceptron

The perceptron is a type of artificial neural network invented in 1957 at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory by Frank Rosenblatt. It can be seen as the simplest kind of feedforward neural network: a linear classifier.- Definition :...

 training, and decision tree

Decision tree

A decision tree is a decision support tool that uses a tree-like graph or model of decisions and their possible consequences, including chance event outcomes, resource costs, and utility. It is one way to display an algorithm. Decision trees are commonly used in operations research, specifically...

 learning. The artificial creature in Black & White holds the Guinness World Record

Guinness World Records

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for most intelligent being in a game. Black and White is Number 1 in AIGameDev's most influential AI games.

He is particularly interested in the application of formal logic to AI applications.

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