12 July 2012
ACM Distinguished Lecture: Content Generation - The New Frontier for AI in Games
RMIT City Campus, Monday 6 August.
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Title: |
ACM Distinguished Lecture: Content Generation - The New Frontier for AI in Games |
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Person: |
Associate Professor Kenneth Stanley |
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Date: |
2012-08-06 |
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Time: |
12.30 pm – 1.30 pm |
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Location: |
RMIT City campus, Building 12, Level 5, Room 2 (12.05.02) |
Abstract:
While artificial intelligence (AI) in games is often associated with enhancing the behavior of non-player characters, at its cutting edge AI offers the potential for entirely new kinds of gaming experiences. In this talk I will focus on this frontier of AI in games through examples of games from my research that generate their own content. In these experimental games, called Galactic Arms Race and Petalz, unique creations are invented by the game itself, sometimes in collaboration with the players. The discussion will focus on the inspiration for the technologies behind these games (including some related applications) and the long-term implications of content-generating algorithms for gaming.
About the speaker:
Kenneth O. Stanley is an associate professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Central Florida. He received a B.S.E. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1997 and received a Ph.D. in 2004 from the University of Texas at Austin. He is an inventor of the Neuroevolution of Augmenting Topologies (NEAT), HyperNEAT, and novelty search algorithms for evolving complex artificial neural networks. His main research contributions are in neuroevolution (i.e. evolving neural networks), generative and developmental systems, coevolution, machine learning for video games, and interactive evolution. He has won best paper awards for his work on NEAT, NERO, NEAT Drummer, FSMC, HyperNEAT, novelty search, and Galactic Arms Race. He is an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Computational Intelligence and AI in Games, on the editorial board of Evolutionary Computation journal, and on the ACM SIGEVO Executive Committee.
This ACM Distinguished Lecture is jointly sponsored by ACM Distinguished Speaker Program, SIGSPATIAL Australia Chapter, NICTA, and RMIT School of Computer Science and IT.
Further information
Please contact Dr Fabio Zambetta, +61 9925 9694, if you have any enquiry. No registration is required for this lecture.
This ACM Distinguished Lecture is jointly sponsored by ACM Distinguished Speaker Program, SIGSPATIAL Australia Chapter, NICTA, and RMIT School of Computer Science and IT. You can locate the venue from RMIT city campus map.