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Peter Nordin

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Peter Nordin
Born(1965-08-09)August 9, 1965
Helsingborg,Sweden
DiedOctober 12, 2020(2020-10-12)(aged 55)
NationalitySwedish
Alma materUniversity of Dortmund
Chalmers University of Technology
Göteborg University
Scientific career
FieldsEvolutionary robotics
Artificial intelligence
Text Mining
Complex Systems
InstitutionsiRobis

Peter Nordin(August 9, 1965 – October 12, 2020)[1]was a Swedish computer scientist, entrepreneur and author who has contributed toartificial intelligence,automatic programming,machine learning,andevolutionary robotics.

Studies and early career

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Peter Nordin was born in 1965 inHelsingborgbut moved toGothenburgin 1967, where he was raised. He began studies at Chalmers University of Technology in 1984 and completed the M.S. incomputer scienceand engineering in 1988 and studied economics. He then worked as aknowledge engineerforartificial intelligence(AI) company, Infologics AB, focusing onresearch and developmentofknowledge-based systemsandcomplex systemconfiguration.[2]

Nordin began his research while at Infologics AB, Sweden. His work led to several European research projects (ESPRIT)[3]including projects inmachine learning(autonomousvehicles) and methodologies for AI system development.[4]He began his research inGenetic Programming(GP) in 1992.[5]In 1993, he started Dacapo AB,[6]a research and development company.[7]He invented a method for automatic induction of binary machine code using genetic programming[8]and researched how to produce machine code with genetic programming. In 1997 he co-founded the American company RML Technologies, Inc. with commercial GP software.[9]Nordin spent a large portion of 1995 and 1996 at theUniversity of Dortmund,where he completed his doctoral studies.[10]At Dortmund University he initiated research inevolutionary robotics.[11]and demonstrated that GP can be used for real-time, on-linetrainingandcontrol[citation needed]ofrobotic systems.[12]

In 1998, he co-authored a textbook on genetic programming.[13] Peter Nordin created a search engine company in 1999, VILL AB[14](with global search engine wannasee.com) as well as another AI-company, Tific AB[15][16]for automated support, and received the year’s Sten Gustafsson prize for entrepreneuring, awarded by theRoyal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences.[17]At the time, he was also the co-founder of Chalmer's Medialab[18]and was on the board of the Swedish AI Society.[19]He was Chair of the second European Conference on Genetic Programming, EuroGP 1999, now part ofEvoStar.

Robots and commercialization of AI

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During 1998–2003, he was an associate professor at Chalmers’Complex Adaptive Systems(CAS).[dead link][20]For a short period he led an international master's degree program in CAS, which he co-founded.[dead link][21]He led the master’s program and supervised construction of GP-based adaptive physical robots.[dead link][22]During this time, he also started Chalmers’ Humanoid Project[23]resulted in Sweden’s first full-scalehumanoid robots;Elvis, Elvina, and Priscilla, which currently reside in Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology.[24]Robots from the Humanoid Project participated in “RoboCup” soccer matches for humanoid robots[25][26]He also founded the first European company for humanoid technology: the Estonian company European Humanoids OY.[27]Several of Nordin's students have created their own humanoid projects, such as Davide Faconti and the REEM-B robot[28]and Almir Heralic with HR2.[29]Much of this earlier work focused on evolutionary robotictrainingmethods for:problem solving,sound andimage processing,perceptionand advancednon-linearlow-level control. Robots have also learned to walk on two legs without having foreknowledge by simulating the behaviour.[30]The robot Elvis,[31]attracted some media interest internationally.[32]The world's first flying "flapping" adaptiveornithopterrobot[33]appeared in TV and other media. The popular science book; “Humanoider: Självlärande robotar och artificiell intelligens”,[34]was one result of this public interest.[35]

During his time at Chalmers, he started another 10 spin-off companies based on his research.[dead link][36]He had a number of patents,[37]all related to genetic programming and evolutionary methods. He was a co-founder of the Institute of Robotics in Scandinavia.[dead link][38]From 2013 Peter Nordin was an adjoint professor at Chalmers in Göteborg, Sweden.

Nordin was seen in the public debate on treatment of gifted children and is an advisor for theMensa InternationalProcess, both he and his wife were active members ofMensa International.

He lived with wife Carina and 6 children outside Gothenburg in Askim.[39]

Career summary, research

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Peter Nordin had a PhD in Computer Science atUniversity of Dortmund(1997) and a degree in computer science and engineering from Chalmers University of Technology inGothenburg,Sweden (1988). His later research included commercial evolutionary robotics software[40]and software for a complete cognitive system for robots.[41]His earlier research includedEvolutionary software architecture for robotics,[42]the invention of evolutionary induction of mathematical proofs[43]and of binary machine language,[44]speech and vision recognition,[45]andlinear genetic programmingfor internet search.[46]He researched analysis of genetic programming through complexity theory.[47]

Peter Nordin was the inventor of the ALLAN-method[48]forArtificial General Intelligencebased on complexity measures i.e.Speed Priorusing random strings as reinforcement to create aUniversal Artificial Intelligence.

Notes

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  1. ^"Peter Nordin".Minnessidor(in Swedish). Fonus.RetrievedOctober 16,2020.
  2. ^Ohsuga, Setsuo; Kangassalo, Hannu (1992).Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases III.IOS Press.ISBN9789051990737.
  3. ^"IEEE.org"(PDF).IEEE.RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
  4. ^Lri.frArchivedNovember 27, 2006, at theWayback Machine(in French)
  5. ^Flickr.com,Google.se(in Swedish)
  6. ^Short profile of Peter from Hindawi Publishing CorporationArchivedSeptember 28, 2007, at theWayback Machine
  7. ^"Genetic-programming.org".Genetic-programming.org.RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
  8. ^"Evolutionary Program Induction of Binary Machine Code and its Applications".
  9. ^"Home".rmltech.com.Archived fromthe originalon October 15, 2008.RetrievedAugust 8,2022.
  10. ^"Delft University of Technology".Ph.tn.tudelft.nl. Archived fromthe originalon March 28, 2008.RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
  11. ^Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche,Google.se(in Swedish),Lri.frArchivedJanuary 26, 2009, at theWayback Machine(in French)
  12. ^"Evolving real-time behavioral modules for a robot with GP (1996)". 1996: 675–680.CiteSeerX10.1.1.53.5871.{{cite journal}}:Cite journal requires|journal=(help)
  13. ^Genetic Programming: An Introduction, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Peter Nordin, Robert E. Keller, and Frank D. Frandone, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. (1998).Bokrecension.se(in Swedish)
  14. ^Archive.org,Archive.org,Nyteknik.seArchivedJune 8, 2011, at theWayback Machine(in Swedish),Archive.org,Internetbrus.comArchivedDecember 1, 2008, at theWayback Machine(in Swedish)
  15. ^"TiFiC - Digital support".www.tific.com.Archived fromthe originalon February 1, 2001.RetrievedJanuary 12,2022.
  16. ^http://8SAIS/www.tific.com[permanent dead link]
  17. ^"IVA".
  18. ^"Archive.org".November 22, 2001. Archived fromthe originalon November 22, 2001.RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
  19. ^"SAIS.se"(PDF).RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
  20. ^Göteborgs universitetArchivedJuly 28, 2011, at theWayback Machine(in Swedish),Archive.org
  21. ^"Chalmers.se".Fy.chalmers.se. Archived fromthe originalon October 15, 2011.RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
  22. ^Chalmers.seArchivedAugust 12, 2011, at theWayback Machine,Chalmers.se,Facebook.com
  23. ^"Kreaprenör".
  24. ^Tekniska museetArchivedNovember 19, 2008, at theWayback Machine(in Swedish)
  25. ^BBC – Robots train for World Cup(RoboCup) in Japan in 2002.ArchivedFebruary 6, 2007, at theWayback Machine,Nyteknik.se(RoboCup) in Japan in 2002.(in Swedish)
  26. ^Robocup.orgArchivedAugust 20, 2008, at theWayback Machine,Lri.frArchivedFebruary 8, 2008, at theWayback Machine
  27. ^Europeanhumanoids.comArchivedFebruary 1, 2011, at theWayback Machine
  28. ^Lombardi, Candace (June 13, 2008)."CNET.com".News.cnet.com.RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
  29. ^Chalmers.seArchivedJune 7, 2007, at theWayback Machine
  30. ^An Evolutionary Architecture for a Humanoid RobotArchivedJune 30, 2007, at theWayback Machine
  31. ^Duncan Graham-Rowe."Elvis lives".New Scientist.
  32. ^"Elvis Hand-Eye Coordination".
  33. ^"Newscientist.com".Newscientist.com.RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
  34. ^Peter Nordin, Johanna Wilde (2003).Humanoider: Självlärande robotar och artificiell intelligens ( "Humanoids: Autodidactic robots and artificial intelligence" ).Liber AB.ISBN978-91-47-05191-5.
  35. ^SVD.se(in Swedish)
  36. ^"Chalmers.se"(PDF).RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
  37. ^"FPO IP Research & Communities".
  38. ^"Bối trung の mao".Archived fromthe originalon May 23, 2007.RetrievedJune 12,2007.
  39. ^DN.seNaturvetarefobundet.seArchivedSeptember 16, 2008, at theWayback Machine(in Swedish)
  40. ^"TAIS".Fmv.se. Archived fromthe originalon February 16, 2006.RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
  41. ^RoboBusiness: Robots that Dream of Being BetterArchivedJune 19, 2007, at theWayback Machine,Archibe.org,Università degli Studi di Parma(in Italian),Archive.org
  42. ^"Chalmers.se".Fy.chalmers.se.RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
  43. ^Institut de l’Information Scientifique et Technique(in French)
  44. ^"Archive.org".December 15, 2001. Archived fromthe originalon December 15, 2001.RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
  45. ^"Universität Trier".Informatik.uni-trier.de.RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
  46. ^Nationalencyklopedin[permanent dead link](in Swedish),Google.se(in Swedish),Springerlink.com
  47. ^"Pennsylvania State University". 1995: 310–317.CiteSeerX10.1.1.57.2133.{{cite journal}}:Cite journal requires|journal=(help)
  48. ^"WIPO.int".WIPO.int.RetrievedDecember 16,2011.
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