- Peter Nordin
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name = Peter Nordin
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birth_date = Birth date and age|1965|8|9|mf=y
birth_place =Helsingborg ,Sweden
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field =Evolutionary robotics Artificial Intelligence
Text MiningComplex Systems
work_institution = iRobis
alma_mater = University of DortmundChalmers University of Technology Göteborg University
Peter Nordin is a Swedish computer scientist who has contributed to artificial intelligence, automatically generated computer programming, machine learning, and evolutionary robotics. He is currently (as of 2007) VP of Research at
Institute of Robotics in Scandinavia AB (iRobis ).Studies and early career
Peter Nordin was born in 1965 in
Helsingborg but moved toGothenburg in 1967, where he was raised. He began studies atChalmers University of Technology in 1984 and completed the M.S. incomputer science in 1988. He then worked as aknowledge engineer forartificial intelligence (AI) company, Infologics AB, [Infologics AB was founded byTeleverket and is currently a wholly owned subsidiary ofTeliasonera .] focusing onresearch and development ofknowledge-based systems andcomplex system configuration. Projects often involved cooperation withSwedish Institute of Computer Science .Peter began his research and publishing while at Infologics AB, Sweden and was responsible for monitoring the field of
evolutionary algorithms . His work led to several European research projects (ESPRIT ), including projects inmachine learning (autonomous vehicles for example) and AI system development methods. He met with 12 other researchers in the summer of 1993 for the first international workshop ongenetic programming (GP), which is regarded as the event that established GP as a field of international research. GP is a type of evolutionary algorithm and the first generalautomatic programming method that generatesTuring complete algorithms – i.e. computers that write their own programs. In 1993, he started Dacapo AB, [ [http://www.hindawi.com/486024.html Short profile of Peter from Hindawi Publishing Corporation] ] a research and development company that grew to employ 80 people before it was sold in 1999. Peter spent a large portion of 1995 and 1996 at the University of Dortmund, where he completed is doctoral studies under Professor Wolfgang Banzhaf. There, he initiated research inevolutionary robotics and demonstrated that GP can be used for real-timetraining andcontrol of robotic systems.In 1996, he became involved in an effort to create the first textbook on genetic programming [Genetic Programming: An Introduction, Wolfgang Banzhaf, Peter Nordin, Robert E. Keller, and Frank D. Frandone, Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc. (1998)] . In 1999, Peter created search engine company VILL AB and AI-company Tific AB and received the year’s Sten Gustafsson prize for entrepreneuring, awarded by the
Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences .Robots and commercialization of AI
In 2000, he was offered a faculty position in Chalmers’ Complex Adaptive Systems. He started an international master’s degree program in CAS. Courses he developed included
autonomous system s andhumanoid robotics . He led the master’s program for several years and managed construction of hundreds of GP-based robots. During this time, he also started Chalmers’ Humanoid Project [ [http://humanoid.fy.chalmers.se/ The Humanoid Project] ] with among other accomplishments, Sweden’s first full-scalehumanoid robot s; Elvis, Elvina, and Priscilla, which currently reside in Sweden’s National Museum of Science and Technology. Robots from the Humanoid Project have even participated in “World Cup” soccer matches for humanoid robots [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1948718.stm BBC - Robots train for World Cup] ] (RoboCup ) inJapan in 2002. Several of the robots were developed to the level of commercial quality prototypes. Much of this earlier work focused on evolutionary robotictraining methods for:problem solving , sound andimage processing ,perception and advancednon-linear low-level control. Robots have also learned to walk on two legs without having foreknowledge by simulating the behaviour. [ [http://humanoid.fy.chalmers.se/text/cuba.pdf An Evolutionary Architecture for a Humanoid Robot] ] Media interest in the robots resulted in over 100 interviews and debates in newspapers and on television in Sweden and elsewhere. The robot Elvis, for example was seen by the public in more than 15 countries. The popular science book; “"Humanoider: Självlärande robotar och artificiell intelligens"” [cite book
title = Humanoider: Självlärande robotar och artificiell intelligens ("Humanoids:Autodidactic robots and artificial intelligence")
author = Peter Nordin, Johanna Wilde
publisher = Liber AB
id = ISBN 9789147051915] , was one result of this public interest.During his time at Chalmers, he started another 6 spin-off companies based on his research, produced 80 publications, led several international conferences in Gothenburg, was reviewer for several international journals, and a popular invited speaker. He has 3 patents approved in the US and several patents pending, all related to genetic programming and evolutionary methods. In 2004, he worked for
AstraZeneca onscientific method , scientific communication, andscientific reasoning . Since 2005 he has worked full-time on commercialization of AI androbotics . Peter’s greatest experience is in commercialization of AIsoftware in Sweden with more than 10 successful start-ups. He lives with wife Carina and 6 children outside Gothenburg in Askim.Career summary, research
Peter Nordin has a Ph.D. in Computer Science at University of Dortmund (1997) and a degree in computer science from
Chalmers University of Technology inGothenburg ,Sweden (1988). His current research include commercial quality evolutionary robotics software [ [http://www.fmv.se/WmTemplates/Page.aspx?id=1442 TAIS] ] and software for a complete cognitive system for robots [ [http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/05/16/robobusiness-robots-with-imagination/ RoboBusiness: Robots that Dream of Being Better] ] . His earlier research includes : Evolutionary software architecture for robotics, evolutionary induction of mathematical proofs and of binary machine language, speech and vision recognition, and linear genetic programming for internet search.Patents
* US patent on evolutionary program induction of machine code granted: Computer Implemented Machine Learning Method and System, Patent Number 5,841,947
* another three patents pending.External links
* [http://mensnewsdaily.com/2007/05/16/robobusiness-robots-with-imagination/ RoboBusiness: Robots that Dream of Being Better]
* [http://mensnewsdaily.com/2008/02/07/sweden-the-land-of-robots/ Sweden: The Land of Robots]
* [http://www.irobis.com/ Institute of Robotics in Scandinavia AB (iRobis)]
* [http://humanoid.fy.chalmers.se/ The Humanoid Project]
* [http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~almir/ HR-2]Notes
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NAME= Nordin, Peter
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SHORT DESCRIPTION= Swedish Roboticist
DATE OF BIRTH=Auguest 9 , 1965
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