Luc Steels#
| Membership Number: | 2718 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SPAIN |
| Homepage(s): | https://www.icrea.cat/Web/ScientificStaff/luc-steels-539 http://arti.vub.ac.be/~steels/ |
Present and Previous Positions
- ICREA research professor at the Institute for Evolutionary Biology (CSIC,UPF)
- 1996 Founder of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris and its first director
- Co-founder and chairman (from 1990 until 1995) of the VUB Computer Science Department (Faculty of Sciences)
- 1983 Director of the AI Laboratory University of Brussels (VUB)
- 1983 Professor of computer science at the University of Brussels (VUB)
Fields of Scholarship
- Theories for the origins and evolution of language using computer simulations
- Artificial Intelligence
Honours and Awards
- 1978 ITT fellow (for study in the US)
- 1982 Digital Equipment Best Paper Award (ECAI)
- 1996 Member New York Academy of Sciences
- 2004 King Albert I Medal (Belgian National Science Foundation
- 2008 - 2009 Fellow Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
- 2009 CASYS Award, Liege
- 2022 EurAI Distinguished Service Award
