Steve Grand (12 February 1958) is an English computer scientist. He was the creator and lead programmer of the Creatures artificial life simulation, which he discussed in his first book Creation: Life and how to make it, a nominee for the 2001 Aventis Prize for Science Books.

Grand's latest project is the building of an artificial robot baby orang-utan, with the intention of having it learn as a human baby would. This is documented in his book Growing up with Lucy.

Bibliography

• Creation: Life and how to make it (2001) ISBN 0753812770
• Growing up with Lucy (2004) ISBN 0297607332

External links

• Steve Grand's personal home page
• Transcript of Steve's keynote speech, "Machines Like Us", given at the Applied Knowledge Research Institute's 2002 Biennial Seminar
• Steve Grand article on Creatures Wiki

Creatures | 1958 births | Living people | Aventis Prize for Science Books

Steve Grand